Hornaday .17MR labels (among numerous others) are printed in Oregon. Standing order for 100,000 .17 labels a month. How do I know this? Take it to the bank: the pressman is married to my youngest daughter. That' s 50 X 100,000 -- or 5 million .17 rounds every 30 days -- assuming Hornaday is actually maintaining that level of production. Same presses are now printing CCI' s new .17MR 50-round box labels as well; monthly runs vary from 50,000 to 100,000. No, I don' t have an inside track to any of this ammo, so don' t call.

Suspicions abound. My own take is that no such ammo really exists. Hornaday is simply wallpapering every outhouse in Nebraska with these decorative red labels as a good-will gesture, free of charge. To keep snow from drifting thru the knot holes and thereby raising the standard of living. Hey! -- you got a better explanation?