Found some cool, old ammo!

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Back in the late 1940's to the late 1950's, my grandfather had a sporting goods store in the village where he lived on Vancouver Island. After the store became a laundromat in the late '50's, and after selling off all the more common ammo, some of the store's old stock of weird ammo was still lying around and, when my grandfather died, my grandfather passed it on to me. I hadn't looked through the box until tonight, and I found some really interesting stuff.

All the ammo is CIL/Dominion (with a single exception, per below), non-corrosive, in excellent shooting condition, and all in their original boxes. Here's a list of what's there:

- 38-40 rimmed, softnose (stubby rifle rounds), 100 rounds (2 boxes @ 50, one box has broken open)

- .35 Remington rimless, 120 rounds (6 boxes @ 20 rounds)

- .22 Savage 70 grain rifle, 40 rounds (2 boxes @ 20 rounds)

- 6.5 mm, 160 grain, 20 rounds (1 box)

- .30 US Army (a.k.a. 30-40 Krag), 20 rounds (1 box)

- .30CF Rook, around 45-50 rounds (British made, NOT CIL/Dominion, 1 box @ 50, with 1 or 2 missing)

Anyway, some of these I've never seen before, but I'm sure all will be familiar to one or another of the esoteric ammo experts here!:D
 
Okay, I figured pics would be desired, so...

Here's one of samples of the boxes...

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...and here's one of samples of each of the rounds - they're laid out in the same order as the boxes, so it's easier to figure out which one is which...

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The .30 Rook cartridges are center-fire & smokeless...on the box it says "Central-Fire" - here's a close up of the box & round

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...a close ups of some of the other boxes...

All in all, some really unusual & rare stuff, indeed.

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The .300 Rook is about the only uncommon one in the lot. Like as not, that one would have been chambered in a small Martini, or a break open single shot of decent enough lineage .

.303 Savage and .22 Savage High Power, were used in a lot of Savage 1899 lever guns. Not everywhere these days, but not rare.
The 6.5, is a 6.5x55 Swede round. Pretty common in Milsurp and some target guns. TradEx has lots to shoot them in. Check out their site if you have not yet. Good folks to deal with.
I had a Remington 76 or 760 pump gun in .35 Remington a few years back. It came with six or seven boxes of factory ammo, for $120. I was offered a bunch more than that for it after I shot most of the ammo, so the guy got it. Wasn't a very popular cal., dunno if anyone loads for it any more commercially.
The 38-40 was chambered in literally thousands of Colt's Revolvers, as well as several different maker (read the box) lever action rifles. Still pretty popular for Cowboy Action Shooting, I am to understand.

Old ammo boxes in good shape may be worth more than the ammo inside (which, don't get me wrong, still has value), but you are not gonna get rich off the stuff.

Cheers
Trev
 
For some reason I really like old ammo. My prize so far is .30 springfield 06 full box with origianl ammo and a grissley bear on the box. Picked it up at a gun show for $20.00
 
Gotta love those old ammo boxes! And the ammo. I have a severe weakness for old Dominion/C-I-L ammo and boxes. I buy nearly every box of 12 ga. Imperial Special Long Range I come across at gun shows.

I can still smell those empty hulls after my Dad had fired his old Tobin. Although I have no sense of smell due to asthma, I still like to put two or three in my hand and rattle them around. I can still picture him, in my mind, dropping a couple of the old paper Imperials in the shotgun, closing it up, and BOOM!

Thanks for posting. Try not to open and close those boxes too often, and don't let others dig them open with their thumbnails. They will make a great treasure to pass down when you are a "grandpa". Meanwhile, keep them, and treasure them. They need not be worth big bucks to be of great value to you.
 
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