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WWII sutplus 8MM ammo .

Bill JordanBill Jordan Member Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 2010 in Ask the Experts
I have a supply of nice, clean ammo marhed "44" , "MM" , and "7.92".
My question is The maker,and is it Berdan? Please don't tell me to shoot it and look in the case, I know that, it's just asking if someone knows this ammo off the top ofyour head.
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This ammo has been popping up for quite a few years. It was produced in Canada during WW II by Defence Industries Ltd and it is boxer primed. The bulk of this ammo was produced for and shipped to the Nationalists Chinese as part of the Lend Lease program. After the war there were many millions of rounds of this ammo laying around and then the story gets foggy...Everything from shipping it to Israel in violation of the British blockade to using it during the Bay Of Pigs invasion. Bottom line is that it is boxer primed and reloadable, if you want to reload 65 year old brass.
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    The necks are a bit thick though for reloading, I had to neck turn all of them to get proper chambering. Not an issue with the original bullets, just for reloading.

    Of course the primers are crimped too.

    But it is boxer primed.
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  • Bill JordanBill Jordan Member Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks,at least know how to advertise it.
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,183 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    Corrosive primers no doubt?
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  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,043 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Corrosive primers no doubt?".......not the bunch I've shot (9mm too)
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I seem to recall that all of the ammo loaded in the Canadian arsenals during WWII used non corrosive primers. I am not 100% sure about all Canadian ammo, but I do know that their .30-06 Ball was non corrosive.
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a bunch of 9MM with the similar "MM" headstamp. I always assumed that it was W W II Canadian also, because it came packed in the the 64 round cardboard boxes for loading Sten magazines.

    Found out later on that it was indeed made by a British Commonwealth country, only not Canada. The "MM" headstamp was supposedly used by the Musgrave company of South Africa.
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  • TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,292 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Musgrave Company of South Africa used the MM and mus.
    The only Canadian headstamp I can find is IVI
    Industries Valcartier, Quebec, Canada.
    A lot of the South African stuff is sold as Canadian.
    Does the headstamp look like this?
    th_Canadian8mm.jpg
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