halfmoonclip
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Yeah, .45 Colt brass doesn't grow on trees. Mine came straight from Starline; at least it is good stuff.
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Abandoned Ammo
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My cousin was a Vietnam Veteran all he would ever say about being there was you don’t need to know what I did . After he got back he never touched a gun again I couldn’t even get him to go with me to a range with me it always broke my heart he was a great hunter/shot before Vietnam . Sadly he is no longer with us he left this world at 68 I think about him a lot.
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The only stories we ever heard were 2nd hand from Grandma, and they were hair-raising enough. Gramps wouldn't talk about the war, ever, and it made him uncomfortable when folks thanked him for his service or brought up Veterans or Memorial Day events.
I have a picture of him fresh out of Basic holding a Garand, though being Corps of Engineers, I suspect he probably carried a Carbine or 1911 in theater. When asked about the guns he used, he would just say "I dont remember."
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Sounds very much like my cousin all I ever heard was from my uncle and even he didn’t know much he just wouldn’t talk about it.
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I used to find a lot of shotgun shells when I was hunting, I confess, if they were still factory sealed and depending on the weather, I kept them for ammo. I found rifle cartridges in the woods that people dropped also but those got pulled apart no matter what.
. During my first tour in Vietnam, 1970, I worked and lived with special forces teams who’s area of operations was along the Cambodian border. They would find base camp areas, and the cashes of rifles and ammunition stored there, then salt the ammunition and the rifles. My role, was to provide airborne demolition of large base areas, with air strikes.
In the cashes, not all rifles were doctored, nor was every box of ammunition salted with a“ dynamite round. Just a few. I don’t recall the results of these operations, but for those on the receiving end, it must have been a real flinch inducer. I have never looked at an SKS, or one of the AK-47s, without remembering those cashes. Best regards, and be careful how you shoot antique ammunition, rod
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Here are a few for you.
They are all range pickups, the first one may not be old but it's the first rimmed .45 I've seen.
The next one is an old shotshell I guess someone didn't want to shoot it because it was old.
This one has some corrosion on it so it may not be safe to fire but the Sears catalog is where I first got into guns. It's where I remember seeing these slugs.
Does anyone have any idea of how old these rounds are?
They are all range pickups, the first one may not be old but it's the first rimmed .45 I've seen.
The next one is an old shotshell I guess someone didn't want to shoot it because it was old.
This one has some corrosion on it so it may not be safe to fire but the Sears catalog is where I first got into guns. It's where I remember seeing these slugs.
Does anyone have any idea of how old these rounds are?
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Check Amazon. I read a Vietnam memoir that might have been written by one of the guys you worked with. It mentioned the border and "salting" the ammo caches.
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tightgroup tiger
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I still have boxes of the old Remington Kleanbore paper haul shot shells. Those always smelled so good when we were shooting them. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think the new ammo today just doesn't smell as good as the old ones did.
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Pull the bullet, dump the powder in the garden, deprime, resize. No exceptions.
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Thank you for your service
I remember in 1999, when Sports Authority stopped selling handguns, they had the DE 50AE on clearance for $900.
I thought about it but ended up buying an S&W 60 and Colt 1991A1 instead.
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Sort of abandoned ammo.
After a relative passed away I ended up with a box of 12ga paper case shot shells. I decided they shouldn't be around for my heirs and shot up all but three examples in my over built Chinese Ithaca 37 clone (featherweight it aint). They were hard to feed, hard to eject, but patterned nicely on pizza boxes set up at random distances.
Also received a box of .32 ACP but their Savage 1910 pistol was probably hocked decades before.
After a relative passed away I ended up with a box of 12ga paper case shot shells. I decided they shouldn't be around for my heirs and shot up all but three examples in my over built Chinese Ithaca 37 clone (featherweight it aint). They were hard to feed, hard to eject, but patterned nicely on pizza boxes set up at random distances.
Also received a box of .32 ACP but their Savage 1910 pistol was probably hocked decades before.
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Someone came into the range and left two old boxes of 25 ACP ammo. I opened the box of Federals and most all the cases are split, may not be factory loads. I was going to pull them all apart for the primers anyways.
Now I have to buy a shell plate for them to tear them down and unless I can find one really cheap, it isn't worth it to me to salvage the primers from them.
The other box is the white box, really do look like factory loads, and they are in good shape. They need torn down also.
I wish I knew someone who had a 25 Auto. I'd just give them these to do with as they please so I don't have to mess with them. It would be different if I had a 25 Auto, but I don't
Now I have to buy a shell plate for them to tear them down and unless I can find one really cheap, it isn't worth it to me to salvage the primers from them.
The other box is the white box, really do look like factory loads, and they are in good shape. They need torn down also.
I wish I knew someone who had a 25 Auto. I'd just give them these to do with as they please so I don't have to mess with them. It would be different if I had a 25 Auto, but I don't
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