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Some Ammo You May Have Never Seen and Some Questions
Some more stuff in the load I hauled back from my dad's...
In the first image:
I'm certainly familiar with 9x18, and I was sad he sold the Walther that they went into! :cry:
The plain brown box is .30 Carbine, Lake City, in an old unmarked box... No issue there either.
The one that puzzles me is the beige/white label little box right below the 9x18 Ultra. I think it's Czech, but a lot of Eastern European/Eastern Bloc stuff can look "vintage" even though it's not that old. Is it "vintage"? I wasn't even familiar with the caliber, had to look it up. Hopefully I typed the label correctly, since it's not easy read in the image:
7.62 x 45, 7.61-Kr-52 80/54-bxn, tbpl/Fe, VIII-54, 15 Ks Nctp 0,8x0,3 | 0,8-Kfnma 1/54 - 1,77 g
Also, any guesses as the the three ollllld cartridges on the far left? No markings on them, lead bullets are heavily oxidized. I'm trying to think back if they fit a gun one of us used to have or if he picked them up somewhere.
Edit: It came to me after I posted this... I THINK they are from a Swiss Vetterli I had for a while. Never shot it, but wish I still had it.
Second image:
The 12 gauge rounds are cool, thought you'd like to see them... And the mid-1900's prices on them. Top row left to right: Winchester proof load; Remington tracer; Tri-Test Bottom row, left to right: "Signal, Distress, 1" Single star Red, M73 Apr. 1945" but heavy corrosion (and not 12 gauge lol); Ducks Unlimited brass shell from 1987, I probably went to the local fundraising dinner with my dad; Herter's 3 3/4-1 1/4-6.
Not stuff you see everyday, I guess.
Oh, and the big stuff up above... 30mm not vintage, but the two bigger ones are 57mm/6 pdr antitank gun training shells (inert).
It's fun going through bins from the past! I had totally forgotten about the shotgun rounds.
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