Fudd ammo for Fudd rifle

Gatehouse said:
A couple of years ago my Dad gave me his old 30-06 that he won in a competition at work in 1964, back when they really knew how to reward employees. He's a lefty so went with a semi rather than a bolt action.

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Today I stumbled upon some ammo that looks fitting for it.

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I know some of you guys like the old ammo boxes, so enjoy. :)
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To bad that wasn't a 760 pictured with the ammo.
 
bjmurata said:
I still have a modest stash of the older 30-06 220gr KKSP ammo kicking around here, the CIL made stuff as in those boxes of yours. I was also lucky enough to pick up 300+ 180 gr KKSP bullets in 303 caliber from a fella here on the EE as well.
Back when I was much,much younger practically the only ammunition we ever saw around our household was CIL made for every gun we used, rimfire, shotgun and centerfire rifle. Pretty good in my humble opinion.
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I have three hundred of the 215gr, haven't loaded any yet, still enjoy looking at those three round red cardboard containers on the shelf.
 
It was almost the only thing in the 60's but occasionally Norma, Winchester and Remington were available but it cost more.
In the late 60's there was an article about weighing brass. With two boxes of Dominion 30-06 there was so much variation it was sorted in groups of 1 grain variation.
The first box varied from 186 to 203 grain and the second box from 183 to 206. This allowed me to select 20 with a five grain variation.
For comparison two boxes of Norma 6 mm Remington had a total variation of 1.1 grains.
 
I stumbled across a few old Dominion 30-30 shells in the bush a few years back (must've fallen out of someone's pocket). Looking pretty weathered I didn't bother shooting them, but recently I pulled the bullet out of one and popped out the primer. Powder was bone dry and clean, primer looked like new on the inside. I ended up making a nice keychain out of it.

The bullet had some interesting notches that I've never seen before.

 
That is the Kling Kor mechanical lock that is punched into the core. If the core starts to slip ahead as the bullet decelerates during impact the punched jacket grabs the core to hold it back.

Somewhere I have an expanded bullet with six little curls of lead that extruded out of the jacket. It worked well at factory ammo velocities.

Ted
 
Of course, it might not work on today's armour-plated animals. In the old days, a moose was just a moose and Kling-Kors dropped them by the thousands.
 
Leeper said:
Of course, it might not work on today's armour-plated animals. In the old days, a moose was just a moose and Kling-Kors dropped them by the thousands.
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I can relate to that. From another thread running, one of.my never sell guns is a Ruger M77 tang in 243. I shot my first Moose with it, my three brothers as well. Five in total. We shot old Imperial 100 gr green box. Think all those Moose out of.the.same box.

Today, most of my rifles have "Magnum' stamped on them. The.days before.animals had Kevlar and plate armor.
 
I once bought one of those Remington auto loaders from an old moose hunter getting out of the game. It was the carbine version and he put on a Weaver K4 in those very same mounts. I was a little leary of the mounts, but when I went to the range with the three boxes of Imperial 180gr KKSP,I found it was very accurate and would return to zero.
So I sold it. Thanks for reminding me I do stupid ####.
 
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true north said:
I once bought one of those Remington auto loaders from an old moose hunter getting out of the game. It was the carbine version and he put on a Weaver K4 in those very same mounts. I was a little leary of the mounts, but when I went to the range with the three boxes of Imperial 180gr KKSP,I found it was very accurate and would return to zero.
So I sold it. Thanks for reminding me I do stupid ####.
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Well don't beat yourself up too much over it, we have all been there before as well, some of us more than once. With me it was several times, probably a few more times before it's over too!!
 
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