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need your help .30 M2 ammo

smokeatersmokeater Member Posts: 9 ✭✭
edited April 2002 in Ask the Experts
I acquired 4 boxes of .30 M2 ammo is this old ammo and if it is what is it worth Thanks for your help Box 1 on the bottom of the casing is stamped WRA 42 #2 is stampedDEN 43 #3 is stampedLC 68 #4 is stamped30M2 RD 59 can u help Thanks[This message has been edited by smokeater (edited 04-03-2002).]
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  • HerschelHerschel Member Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The headstamp on the cartridge cases will identify the place and year of mfg.There will be two digits, e.g., 43 or 51 for 1943 or 1951. If there is just a 4 that means made in 1944. There will be letters such as SL which means St. Louis. If the boxes are from the WWII years, full, unbroken and very clean. They have some value for collectors wanting ammo to match their rifle.I think $10 or so would be about all it would bring unless it is very old (pre-WWII).
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Absent other markings (e.g., black tips), this is .30-06 M2 military ammo. The WRA 42 / DEN 43 are common WW2 ball corrosive loadings. The LC 68 is CMP ammo, non-corrosive and the RD 59 is foreign (Mexican?). The two older boxes, if in mint condition in the color-coded packaging scheme could go as high as $20 to the right person, but generally this stuff is $10 a box max.

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