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Title: Interesting find at the range today.
Post by: grizzly340 on September 09, 2018, 04:42:13 PM

I went to the range today to check my crossbow out to 60 ysrds.
But while dumpster diving for brass I found a new 22 box for my collection. My freind says hey this is all in spanish. And sure enough it is. Thats a first someone bringing ammo in from mexico.
I pictured it next to the american box of the same era.

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Post by: grizzly340 on September 09, 2018, 04:44:50 PM

Back of boxes.

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Post by: CptnAwesome on September 09, 2018, 07:08:24 PM

Nice. I've never seen one in all Spanish

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Post by: terminator on September 09, 2018, 07:58:48 PM

Nice find Mark. Interesting.

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Post by: BB340 on September 09, 2018, 09:29:21 PM

Score  ;D

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Post by: PARA45 on September 10, 2018, 06:28:33 AM

Very nice!  Interesting that those 22s were made in Mexico. 

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Post by: truck driver + 2 on September 10, 2018, 06:43:07 AM

Probably manufactured at the Aguila plant. If you could find the brass the head stamp would tell if it was made by Aguila.

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Post by: danno50 on September 10, 2018, 09:32:23 AM

The Golden Bullets by Remington I believe were early 70's and the Aquila box doesn't mention (that I can see from the pictures) golden bullets in Spanish. Maybe the Aquila ammo is older still, or maybe they didn't make the golden bullet counterpart in Mexico.

Just some FYI, Aquila means eagle in Spanish and is pronounced á-gui-la. (kind of a silent "u" if that helps)

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Post by: hl3weatherby on September 13, 2018, 04:03:45 AM

 Aquila pronounced  a-KEY-la. Castillian Spanish. Mexican Spanish may be slightly different

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Post by: danno50 on September 13, 2018, 07:32:32 AM

Spelled the same way in both Spanish languages: áquila

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Post by: DW5 on September 13, 2018, 11:12:24 AM

Learn something new every day! gonna start talking about the bald aquila around the house and see how long it takes before I get questioned about what I'm talking about...

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Post by: zonie on September 13, 2018, 05:22:11 PM

pretty cool ,   love those old boxes

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Post by: PARA45 on September 13, 2018, 05:24:46 PM

Did you guys meant Aguila, and not Aquila??

"Just some FYI, Aquila means eagle in Spanish and is pronounced á-gui-la. (kind of a silent "u" if that helps)" 

You are correct Danno, and in Castilian or the bastardized Spanish spoken in Mexico, Central & South America, Aguila is the right pronunciation.