Old box of ammo
- Thread starter glang1
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- Location
- Smithers, B.C.
Wow. Nice. Worth something.
- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
I wonder if they bubba'd the ammo too? 
So I should consider this ammo corrosive? I don't intend to fire it in any of my rifles.
- Location
- Smithers, B.C.
Agreed... basically it's some home-grown Canadian Company re-pack. I had a box once by another Toronto company from the 20's. They pulled the bullets out of Berdan primed .303 Mk.VII rounds and put in hunting spitzers. I shot the box for laughs, out of 20, about 10 hangfired, 1 misfire and the other 9 hit a barn in China. Congratulations Toronto, you once again earn your reputation!
O.K, I'll just put it back in the trash where I found them.
Deltasilver
Regular
- Location
- Right behind you...
It's been only 2 days , don't garbage 'em. There might be someone who wants those for a collection. It's not like one 20 rnd box takes up THAT much room in your cabinet?
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Sounds like the batch of Mk. VI ammunition that was remanufactured. The bullets were not pulled; the tip of the jacket was cut off, and the exposed lead core was reformed. The jacket became a tube, and there was the very real risk that the core would squirt through and leave the jacket in the bore. The next time the rifle was fired, there was a very real risk that the barrle would burst.
As far as the 7.62 ammunition is concerned, it might have minor novelty value to a collector.
- Location
- Smithers, B.C.
Tiriaq, thank you for the information. Thank heavens it did not go sour on me. Remind me to never shoot old crap ammunition.
- Location
- Smithers, B.C.
HAH! Good one. Ah yes... good old surplus. May it live forever.
tiriaq, I'm glad you brought that up. Just this week, a young friend emailed me some pics of 7.62x39 bullets that were ground back to the cores.
There was a time in the late fifties and sixties when it wasn't an uncommon practise. There were even a few businesses that marketed them.
They were about 1/3 the price of comparable commercial loadings.
They usually gave poor accuracy, wouldn't expand reliably and in several instances would separate from the jacket on the way to the target. I have an acquaintance that has a crate of milsurp he picked up 35 years ago. He is rather tight with his pennies and figured it should outlast him. He regularly grinds the tips back to the cores. He also wounds a lot of game. As I said, he's an acquaintance not a friend.
On the other note mentioned, it seemed like a good idea when I was younger and poorer to follow this practise. I was playing around with pulling the bullets, grinding them in a jig for conformity and reloading them in boxer primed cases. I never could get them to shoot acceptably and I shot hundreds of them, that's where I noticed that they would separate. The last one I shot, separated in the bore. It felt and sounded a little strange, so I checked the bore and sure enough it was blocked. I pushed out a jacket. It was one of those that had an open base, exposing the core. With a solid base, there may not have been a problem.
There was a time in the late fifties and sixties when it wasn't an uncommon practise. There were even a few businesses that marketed them.
They were about 1/3 the price of comparable commercial loadings.
They usually gave poor accuracy, wouldn't expand reliably and in several instances would separate from the jacket on the way to the target. I have an acquaintance that has a crate of milsurp he picked up 35 years ago. He is rather tight with his pennies and figured it should outlast him. He regularly grinds the tips back to the cores. He also wounds a lot of game. As I said, he's an acquaintance not a friend.
On the other note mentioned, it seemed like a good idea when I was younger and poorer to follow this practise. I was playing around with pulling the bullets, grinding them in a jig for conformity and reloading them in boxer primed cases. I never could get them to shoot acceptably and I shot hundreds of them, that's where I noticed that they would separate. The last one I shot, separated in the bore. It felt and sounded a little strange, so I checked the bore and sure enough it was blocked. I pushed out a jacket. It was one of those that had an open base, exposing the core. With a solid base, there may not have been a problem.
