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Gil Martin Super Member
Joined: Jan 28, 2005 Posts: 1837 Location: Schnecksville, PA
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 4:36 pm Post subject: Military ammo cache |
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Finding good quality .30-06 US G.I. ammo is getting tougher by the day and is very expensive if you can find it. I needed .30-06 ball ammo for our military rifle matches held every month at our local gun club. A club member came up to me at a recent club meeting and asked when I was going to get my ammo out of his storage room. I did not know what he was talking about and went down to the storage room to investigate. I was amazed to see six G.I. .30 caliber ammo cans full of LC 69 .30-06 ball ammo in M1 Garand clips and bandoleers. It seems this ammo was the overflow from an ammo purchase in the distant past and was forgotten. I now have 1,728 rounds of ammo in 216 like-new M1 Garand clips for our matches. All the best...
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gelandangan Super Member
Joined: May 07, 2006 Posts: 6397 Location: Sydney Australia
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 11:31 pm Post subject: Re: Military ammo cache |
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A thousand of anything (except debt ) is usually good to have, but a thousand ammo rounds are even better.
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Elvis Super Member
Joined: Jul 27, 2008 Posts: 9253 Location: south island New Zealand
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 1:54 am Post subject: Re: Military ammo cache |
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great find. now tell me why you dont load em up your self??
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Gil Martin Super Member
Joined: Jan 28, 2005 Posts: 1837 Location: Schnecksville, PA
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 7:39 am Post subject: Re: Military ammo cache |
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Elvis,
I am sure a quantity of that ammo find will go into my strategic ammo reserve here at home. A friend has a gun shop and offered to take all of it off my hands. Problem is, I need some of it to continue my monthly rifle matches. All the best...
Gil
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SingleShotLover Super Member
Joined: Dec 26, 2007 Posts: 1005 Location: Illinois
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Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 4:53 am Post subject: Re: Military ammo cache |
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Just as long as you don't pull the bone-headed stunt I did in my young and stupid years...got a huge bucket of mixed military .45 ACP ammo. A friend and I were shooting it up at a giant corn cob pile at his place. We found out what that red-painted tip on some of it meant. That darned cob pile burned for days! Tracers may look cool, but they don't just stop at going "bang"!
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