Notice Found in 1942-Dated Swedish Ammo Crate of 8X63

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Here's an English translation of that:

To the Commanding Officer


Our land is cut off, and the increasing use of metals for defence demands that we are careful about all types of metals. Hundreds of thousands of kronor are each year lost by lost empty brass.

The value of 1,000 pieces of 6.5 and 8 mm brass is about 12 and 14 kronor respectively, which we can not afford to lose. The cost of lost material will be paid by government money and for that reason we have to be responsible because that is taken from our taxes.

However it is not only the money for the scrap but also the loss of the brass, which if lost is wasted. There might come a day when brass is impossible to obtain.

According to regulations 100% of the empty brass should be returned from target school shooting, and at least 80% from field training. Check immediately at each line of fire that brass and chargers are cared about. Do not wait. Brass does easily disappear in the snow or the grass. Be sure to do what you can to collect empty brass and chargers.
 
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Back in mid 1980s when I was shooting in school we were told to collect every single brass casing from 22LR we spend.We were told similar story to the above-cost of brass and such.

Later on I found out there was some general order given out in 1960s to to just that reason was to keep 22LR rounds from falling into wrong hands and used for poaching.

Mind you that was in Communist Poland .I never found who gave that order or if it's true.Some of our instructors were retired military and they were very strict with counting rounds spend.
 
In the late 50s and 60s, the BCRA used to allow us to take .303 cartridges for private practice as long as we returned our brass.
 
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purple said:
Interestingly the Swedes were selling strategic metals to the Germans all through WW2.
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Carbon steels, primarily. I don't think Sweden was selling Germany copper or tin, they likely had a shortage. The Germans certainly had shortages and switched to steel cased ammo very early in the war.
 
Many of us are familiar with the AG42's tendency to fling brass with sufficient vigour to counter enemy flanking movements from the right. One can imagine a frustrated Corporal wandering around the range after dark with a flashlight and cursing everyone involved while searching in vain for the last three cases out there in the tall grass...
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Many of us are familiar with the AG42's tendency to fling brass with sufficient vigour to counter enemy flanking movements from the right. One can imagine a frustrated Corporal wandering around the range after dark with a flashlight and cursing everyone involved while searching in vain for the last three cases out there in the tall grass...
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That was my thought when I read this too. My AG 42 used to fling that brass 30+ feet in the 2 o'clock direction. I was lucky to find half my fired brass.
 
Brass salvage and re-sale is an old business. 50 years ago my father and I spent the better part of a day looking around Camp Hughes, MB trying to find a bunch of 25pdr casings which he and some fellow gunners had stashed while training as gunners during WW2. Seems one of his fellow gunners might have found them first, but we did find a lot of 1910-1912 stamped .303 brass on the old firing ranges.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Many of us are familiar with the AG42's tendency to fling brass with sufficient vigour to counter enemy flanking movements from the right. One can imagine a frustrated Corporal wandering around the range after dark with a flashlight and cursing everyone involved while searching in vain for the last three cases out there in the tall grass...
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A former co-worker (he's retired now) was pressed into service in Egypt in the late 70's. Because he was going to college at the time (and therefore assumed to be of dubious character and reliability), he was essentially assigned to one of the "expendable infantry" units - their primary tactical training consisted of being told how to charge over a sand dune while screaming. Presumably to distract the OpFor long enough for other units to accomplish what they needed to do.

The government was so paranoid about rebels and insurgents, that they didn't want the troops (especially college edumacated unreliable types) nicking ammo and taking it home or selling it on the black market. Absolutely every round and spent casing had to be accounted for, strictly enforced with corporal punishment for lost casings. As "bottom of the barrel" troops they were issued the Rasheed (x39 variant of the AG42). During his grand total of 2 range sessions during training, the drill consisted of a sergeant barking out "Ready, aim, FIRE! Collect your brass" or some such, and all the men on the line would drop their guns and rush out to retrieve the spent casing. Arguments and scuffles over who's brass was who's would ensue.

None of them ever learned how to look down the sights. They were too busy watching the receiver to see where their brass was getting flung.

After he finished college he immediately emigrate to Canada. He'd got hold of a Radio Shack catalogue, and he figured any country with a store as wonderful as Radio Shack was where he wanted to live.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Glad to have him here. I feel the same way about Radio Shack. :)

No wonder Israel continues to kick ass in the military realm.
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I miss the good old days of Radio Shack... 500 in 1 electronics sets... The "wall of resistors and capacitors"... When they sold out to Circuit City and became "The Source" it was the end of an empire that made a million engineers, tinkerers, and backyard inventors.
 
Four crates of 1750 on belts, a couple thousand loose stuff taken off belts, plus about 5 lbs of pulled powder, and a few hundred bullets at last inventory.
 
We still collect, sort and sell brass in the CAF... I'm one of the lucky f@cker who gets to inspect it before it gets sold... Not a fun job and a pain in the a$$...
 
grelmar said:
I miss the good old days of Radio Shack... 500 in 1 electronics sets... The "wall of resistors and capacitors"... When they sold out to Circuit City and became "The Source" it was the end of an empire that made a million engineers, tinkerers, and backyard inventors.
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Me too. Pretty much killed any reason for me to go in there.
 
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