Love those old boxes and powder tins and old factory ammo. It’s like owing a piece of history!
Collectors would love that stuff. Sell them and use the proceeds to buy shooting ammo!
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Nice antiques there. Yeah if you don't want to keep for posterity, you can sell them to the collectors. They do show some history.
always fret over sell or keep this kind of history. haven't figured out an answer yet
NRA Life
USPSA L1314
SASS Life 48747
RVN/Cambodia War Games, 2nd Place
corrosive priming up till about 1950.
In US military ammo the above is correct, but noncorrosive commercial ammo appeared in the mid-1920s.
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Old US commercial ammo having copper-colored primers will be corrosive.
Noncorrosive primers were generally nickel plated, but not all nickel-plated primers were noncorrosive. Pre-WW2 U.S.Ctg. Co. primers were nickle plated, but corrosive.
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |