What kind of interesting old ammo do you have?

[Zaydok Allen]

I was recently given a full box of 45 ACP anmo that was made at the Evansville Ordnance Plant in 1942.

Apparently this ammo plant was owned by Chrysler and made ammo for the war effort. Unfortunately it is highly corrosive ammo per Google searching, and I'll not be shooting it. I wonder how well 77 year old ammo would work though?

I just thought it was kind of neat and I'd share.

Got any neat old handgun ammo?

 

[entropy]

I had a tin of steel cased .45ACP, WWII vintage a while back, sold it to a friend. He also has some Frankford Arsenal 1918 .45 ball. I have all kinds of interesting 7.62x54R ammo; Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Albanian, Polish, Chinese, etc. and some Turkish 8mm Mauser in bandolieers.

 

[CraigC]

I've got several boxes of Remington and Winchester ammo from the `50's and `60's but for the life of me can't find them. They're in a box somewhere with some other stuff I've been looking for. Mostly .44Spl and .44Mag and I shot some of it. Now wish I hadn't.

 

[troy fairweather]

i have a old bag off frontier 223 rem brass that has 222 rem on the headstamp.

 

[Michael Tinker Pearce]

When my Uncle Jim passed he left me his tools and guns- and 7 bricks of fifty-year old Sears-branded .22 ammo, as well as quite a lot of 7.35mm Carcano, all loaded in six-round en-bloc clips (to go with an intensely ugly sporterized M38.)

 

[FL-NC]

Some stuff I have found here and there. The really big ones were gifted to me from old evidence by the Kenyan Wildlife Services. It all lives with some other stuff under my glass top coffee table in the "man cave".

 

[P5 Guy]

Not all that old, but here is my contribution. The ammo can was full, I had to shoot one box just to see.

And not suitable for any handguns except a Thompson Encore?

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

I once found 2 nice rounds of .22 WSL abandoned at the range along with a single .38ACP cartridge. Those rounds bounced around in my range bag for 3 years until I saw a guy shooting an old Colt .38 at that same range. I gave him that round and asked him if he happened to have an old Winchester Self Loader too.
You shoulda seen the look on his face- "How'd you know!?"

 

[bannockburn]

Got a few boxes of vintage ammo that a friend of mine gave me. Don't have any guns chambered for it; it's just that I like the ol' time nature of such things.



Also have a few pamphlets from the '30s that were my Dad's showing the latest in .22 rifles from Winchester and Remington.

 

[Tallball]

I have a bandoleer of British 303 loaded onto clips. It was made in the 1920's, IIRC.

 

[jonnyc]

Here are a few interesting random rounds I had on my computer desktop:

Polish Tokarev tear gas rounds.


7mm and 8mm Nambu dummies.

South African clandestine 7.62x39 subsonic rounds.

Rare US .345 Machine Rifle and a 7.5 Swiss Assault Rifle round.

Stripper and box of 8mm Roth-Steyr.

VERY RARE 7mm Dominican AR experimental round.

 

[BobWright]

Well, yes, I have some old handgun ammunition:

A few vintage .45 Revolver rounds:



The headstamps of those cartridges:



And, some old stuff:



Some old .45 ACP:



Incidentally, the "EC" headstamp stands for "Evansville Chrysler" while the "ECS" stands for "Evansville Chrysler - Sunbeam", the Sunbeam making the cases for the ordnance plant. The WW I vintage cartridges have three stab point in the neck of the case. This to prevent bullet pull when used in M1917 revolvers.

Some inside primed, copper cased .45s from Frankford Arsenal:



When you are talking old handgun cartridges, you're talking my language!

Bob Wright

 

[BigBlue 94]

I have a number of old shotshells, and old ammo boxes. Also, a few finds from metal detecting.


My collection of metallic cartridge boxes. I have many duplicates, many with grandpa's reloads in them. Some are obviously older than others.










Shotshells and boxes, of various vintage.


This one has the ten 20ga shells you see in it


W-W RED 20ga shell

Random old plastics, slug on the far right.


Paper hulls and the slug from above.

 

[BobWright]

And not to monopolize on the subject, but here are a few more of interest:



Here is a photo of the Martin primer, where the primer cup is formed in the head of the copper case:



he primer anvil was iron and held in place by swaging the cup over. The objection to it was that the anvil could be blown up into the bore upon firing.



While commercial ammunition used the Boxer primer or the Farrington primer, the Army felt it was not waterproof enough for military use.

Bob Wright

 

[BigBlue 94]

I've found a number of old shotshells, spent brass, loaded blanks, and projectiles when metal detecting. I've also found numerous "musket" balls, ranging from small 32 sized ones up to big 75 cal sized ones.

My favorite related find was in Toronto... Kansas. On an old roadbed, cutoff by the reservoir, I found it. Blending in with the remnants of the road bed. A 58 cal mini-ball, weathered from years of sitting embedded in the surface.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Federal Premium 38 Special +P 158gr LSWCHP Nyclads.

 

[HB]

I inherited a pallet of lead duck loads. They are basically useless to me. Some were certainly older than me. I blasted a ton of clays with it one July 4th and invited the friends to do the same.

300+ shells like that put a whooping on my shoulder. The 1100 we shot most of them through ran well however.

I like to reload but I dont see myself collecting cartridges. Way easier and sometimes cheaper to shoot them.

 

[Cokeman]

 

[BigBlue 94]

View attachment 821280 I was recently given a full box of 45 ACP anmo that was made at the Evansville Ordnance Plant in 1942.

Apparently this ammo plant was owned by Chrysler and made ammo for the war effort. Unfortunately it is highly corrosive ammo per Google searching, and I'll not be shooting it. I wonder how well 77 year old ammo would work though?

I just thought it was kind of neat and I'd share.

Got any neat old handgun ammo?

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I've got some 1942 Turkish 8mm floating around somewhere. It still went bang when I tried it probably 15 years ago. Yet a 10 year old 17hmr didn't. I heard the primer go off, and that's it. Ejected the casing, which had a hardened mass of powder in it, and the projectile was stuck just past the chamber.

 

[SGW Gunsmith]

Been collecting full boxes of .22 rimfire since I was 10 years old:



Mind you, these are all full boxes:






Ever seen these before?:



.267 Remington rimfire.

 

[Enfielder]

I'd buy a lot or factory ammonia if Remington started boxing it in that "Kleanbore" box again. I'd like to have it on a t-shirt, too.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Been collecting full boxes of .22 rimfire since I was 10 years old:

That is a nice collection! ( and I bet a sturdy cabinet,too! )

 

[GunnyUSMC]

I gave away a bunch of old ammo boxes, to one of the local gun shops for his display, when I cleaned up my shop. But I managed to hang onto this box.


It’s got odds and ends in it.

Here are a few things
A few Winchester paper hull 12ga.


A full box of Winchester Xpert


A half box of Peters Police Match.


Three Remington paper 10ga.

 

[GunnyUSMC]

I’m not sure what this one is. Is has a paper patch lead bullet and there’s no headstamp.


And two Winchester military #6 shot 410 shells from 1952.

 

[entropy]

Looks like an old Ballard round of some sort.......