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US WWll 30-06 ammo
aldo35
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Hi,
I have a bandolier of WWII 30-06 ammo in M1 Garand clips. Is this ammo corrosive?
On another note was any US produced ammo in WWII corrosive?
Thanks.
Aldo35
I have a bandolier of WWII 30-06 ammo in M1 Garand clips. Is this ammo corrosive?
On another note was any US produced ammo in WWII corrosive?
Thanks.
Aldo35
Comments
ALL wartime 30-06, 303 Enfield, 8mm Mauser, 6.5 Arisaka and Carcano, 7.65x54R, etc were primed with chlorate (corrosive) primers.
1954 and on NC
Didn't Frankford make corrosive 45 auto later than that?
Far as I know. All of the U.S. military ammo made during W W II, had corrosive primers. Except the 30 carbine ammo.
THanks
https://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-24947587498613/USGI-ammo.pdf
Thanks
1st:
richarda Junior Member USA 486 Posts
Posted - 07/17/2017: 10:26:59 AM
[Canadian 8mm and 9mm ammo whose headstamps are merely "7.92MM" and "9MM" plus a two-digit date in the first half of the 1940s (made for China, I believe) are both boxer-primed and non-corrosive].
The Canadian 8x57mm w/ above headstamp was intended for the Commonwealth-pattern Besa tank LMG. Any alleged wartime Chinese connection is speculation.
8x57mm ammo manufactured by Olin was supplied to them, but post-war. It was Boxer primed & headstamped w/ Chinese characters.
2nd:
XXCross Senior Member USA 1241 Posts
Posted - 07/17/2017: 1:12:31 PM
[Ummm.....I believe that the Germans used leadstyphanite (sp?) for their 8mm ammo. That is non-corrosive, however, the powder was corrosive. That's why it is unsafe to shoot old steel cased ammunition loaded by them].
a) Lead styphnate dates back to the 1920s, but there is no recorded WW2 German use of it for small arms priming compounds.
b) WW2-era German small arms propellants were not corrosive, but primers were.
c) Some WW2-era German steel-cased ammo has ruptured upon ignition, but from internal corrosion/propellant degradation/poor storage, not the above BS (WW2 German brass-cased ammo does not suffer from the same faults).