Saw this online at The Sportsmans Guide. Selling WW2 ammo? Really? Anyone else seen anything like it? They have sold out so someone has bought it! :tinysmile_fatgrin_t
WW2 Ammo?
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Pathfinder1
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Hi...
Yes, they have ammo "sales" almost every day. Much of that older ammo is still usable. I think that they sell lots of it, for all types of guns, and from almost any country imaginable.
Yes, they have ammo "sales" almost every day. Much of that older ammo is still usable. I think that they sell lots of it, for all types of guns, and from almost any country imaginable.
catspa
New Member
The reliability of it will depend on its conditions of storage, but I've fired 30-06 from the Korean era that worked just fine.
Parker
Parker
Theosus
Backpacking Noob
Every now and then in Charleston, SC they dig up an unexploded civil war shell. Those things are still viable and have to be disposed of at a bomb range. So 60-70 year old bullets stored properly? I can see them being completely fine. I used to have a mosin-nagant and shot 50 year old 7.62x54 ammo out of it all the time.
CozInCowtown
Moderator
I have some Nazi 8mm I kept because they were cool. Makes a neat display with a couple of 98 Mausers.
I shot a seperate box that was not in good condition, the box not the ammo, and it shot fine for low quality surplus.
DC
I shot a seperate box that was not in good condition, the box not the ammo, and it shot fine for low quality surplus.
DC
WWII ? I recently gave an old box of ammo to my collector neighbor. Head stamp 45-70 gov UMC. (Union Metalic Cartridge company, bought by Remington way back in the 19 teens. These could have predated the Spanish American War.) and they were in fine shape.
catspa
New Member
What I understand, Remington continued to mfgr UMC brass alongside Rem brass for quite some time. I have some .357 UMC brass, which as you know the cartridge wasn't even invented until the mid-30s...
Parker
Parker
That's quality!