Korean 30-06 beginning to show up in stores

JnRockwall

Just found a place offering 30-06 on belts, 250 rounds in can for $160. Doesn't include shipping.

Sound like a good price on 30-06?

Don McManus

The CMP still show loose Greek milsurp for $ 98.00 for 200 rounds.

IIRC, some of the Korean stuff has corrosive primers. No doubt someone else knows more about it.

JnRockwall

I have 2 cans form the cmp and the stuff is good, but it's dark, some a bit dirty. It goes bang. This stuff I talking about is bright shinny like new, on a cloth belt. I could use that to shoot a couple of those machine guns I passed on last weekend.

Don McManus

I haven't bought anything from the CMP for a couple of years. Stocked up with all the 30-06 I'll ever shoot at $ .28 and $ .30 per round as the last of the Lake City and the Greek Spam Cans were being sold. Do not remember getting any that was dark, but they have obviously been digging deeper as of late.

JnRockwall

I can assure you they are digging near the bottom. The ammo can I got was more rust than green. I was ver disappointed in my ammo can. Like I said, the ammo is dark, just not bright shinny, not that it's a big deal. But the rusted to dust ammo can, that was a let down!

CDMead

If the headstamp on the Korean ammo is "KA" it is corrosively primed. If it is "PS" it is not corrosively primed.

I think you might be able to make up the difference between the CMP Greek and the Korean by selling the cloth belts.

TRAP55

quote:If the headstamp on the Korean ammo is "KA" it is corrosively primed.
That is the nastiest, most corrosive ammo, I've ever had the misfortune to use!

machine gun moran

Strange. One of my nephews had a couple of thousand rounds of Greek .30-06 and .303 British, clean stuff in cartons, all headstamped HXP and dated in the late '70's. He wanted to sell it, so he took it to several gun shows and put a price of 25 cents per round on it. He couldn't even sell one round. So I traded him a shotgun for the .303's, and he put the .30-06 in storage at another nephew's farm.

Don McManus

quote:Originally posted by machine gun moran
Strange. One of my nephews had a couple of thousand rounds of Greek .30-06 and .303 British, clean stuff in cartons, all headstamped HXP and dated in the late '70's. He wanted to sell it, so he took it to several gun shows and put a price of 25 cents per round on it. He couldn't even sell one round. So I traded him a shotgun for the .303's, and he put the .30-06 in storage at another nephew's farm.


The price on the 06 surplus jumped to 0.50 per round a couple of years ago, if I remember correctly. It is selling for above that a local shows now.

dheffley

If it's the mil surplus, it is mildly corrosive. The powder is okay, but the primers are corrosive.

I bought a bunch for the M1 on M1 clips a few years back, and it shot well.