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To: djf

You can search the net for specifics, but most DOD ammo used corrosive primers/powders into the sixties.

Again, this is not a problem if you clean your weapons after a firing session - the “corrosive” nature of the components is not a problem to the ammo itself if storage conditions are adequate.

Most military ammo was built to withstand temperature and moisture storage extremes that commercial ammo just can’t tolerate. I have fired thousands of WWII rounds without the slightest problem.


32 posted on 10/10/2008 3:01:58 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: clee1; djf
While the decision to go entirely to non-corrosive primers was made in August of 1949, and was scheduled to be totally implemented by the beginning of 1950, the actual changeover took longer than expected.
35 posted on 10/10/2008 3:16:17 PM PDT by B4Ranch (I'd rather have a VP that can gut a Moose, than a President that wants to gut our Second Amendment!)
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To: clee1
I have fired thousands of WWII rounds without the slightest problem.

I still have several boxes of Italian 7.35mm military rifle ammo marked 1939 that fires every time. I wish I had bought more of it decades ago because it isn't available anymore and the old rifle still shoots well.

I could buy Lee dies for it and make brass out of Norma 6.5 Italian cases, but I would have to cast lead bullets for it if Lyman still makes the molds for it and reduce the powder charge down for a low velocity load. But that's a lot of expense and trouble just to shoot an old rifle at plastic Pepsi bottles and soup cans.

56 posted on 10/12/2008 2:37:07 PM PDT by epow
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