$5 a box of 50 45acp Ball. :)

[69charger]

Originally Posted by baccusboy

I believe the POTUS would agree it only fair that you either pay some form of tax on these, or you share these with those less fortunate.

In the name of fairness.

Your right.
I will let my son shoot 1 round. He's got no money. He's only 13.
Dave

[hotpig]

We are going to occupy, pitch tents and defecate all over your yard until you give us our fair share.

[69charger]

Originally Posted by hotpig

We are going to occupy, pitch tents and defecate all over your yard until you give us our fair share.

K.

Dave

Must leave your 1911 with the attendant at the gate.

[hotpig]

My 1911 is mine. However, some how or another I'm entitled to yours.

[Brian48]

I've got a few boxes of that stuff squirreled away. This is the last of my "issued" ammo from back in the day. Still can't bring myself to shoot it up. I was the one responsible for requisitioning the ammo whenever the SNCOs/officers were up for requals. I kept all the leftovers because it was actually more paperwork to return the stuff than shoot it up.

[Mustang]

I'd keep it. You can always buy .45 ammo to shoot.

I'm with DSK. We only have used half clean silverware made of tin, multiused rusty nails and screws, and old worn sofas that are infested with bedbugs and fleas at our garage sales.....

[Ky_Coal_Miner]

I would save it.

[Siscowet985]

Used to shoot that stuff in the late 70"s that is about what it cost back then- $5a box. If it is boxer primed it is Vietnam mil spec overproduction for a contract. It used to shoot nice but is a full power round. Make sure your 1911 is in good shape because it often gets a little hotter with age.

[DANCESWITHGUNS]

I'd probably hang onto it, why not? It's not like you'd be able to find that stuff anywhere else anytime soon.

[Pontifex]

Originally Posted by joedel

LOL! Funny you mention that, my subdivision had a community garage sale today and it was mostly junk. No secret Picasso's or even 45 Ball ammo.

so true. although on Thursday I got lucky and found a Vietnam War era Army jacket that had some ribbons and pins. No idea who the original owner was, but he was a combat medic in USARV in Vietnam.

It was hanging on the porch when I drove by. Had it not been hanging up I wouldn't have stopped.

[BillD]

Originally Posted by sechott

Is that primer a ball bearing type? If so would that be hard for the firing pin?

In military run ammo?

[BillD]

Hang onto it and do what with it? Give it to your kids? Pull it out and look at it every couple years?

Personally, I don't see the point. I'd be happy to have 150 cheap rounds to shoot and once fired brass to reload.

[Zip06]

About 15 years ago an acquaintance of mine gave me a magazine he found in his fathers tool cabinet. It was a .45 mag with the lanyard loop and 7 rounds in it. They were head stamped 1942 or 43. Corrosive but they fired just fine.

[jfwest]

Shoot them quick, before they spoil.

[TEA]

Originally Posted by USMM guy

That they did not have three or four hundred boxes.

Or a refrigerated 40' cargo container packed full and just sitting out back.

[Auto Mag]

Congrats Dave!!!

I will give you $5.00 for one, I have my dads 1911 from his Navy days but none of that ammo!!!

[sergeant69]

Originally Posted by dsk

You guys have all the luck. At garage sales around here all I ever find is broken furniture, baby clothes, and moldy back issues of National Geographic.

do the National Geographics have any "good " pics?