US WWll 30-06 ammo

aldo35

July 16, 2017 08:36

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

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  rufe-snow

  July 16, 2017 08:44

  Far as I know. All of the U.S. military ammo made during W W II, had corrosive primers. Except the 30 carbine ammo.

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  TRAP55

  July 16, 2017 08:50

  https://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-24947587498613/USGI-ammo.pdf

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  11b6r

  July 16, 2017 09:27

  What Rufe said up there ^^^. All ammo of all parties in WW2 was corrosive EXCEPT M1 carbine. The gas system of the carbine was not designed to be taken apart by the user, and corrosive ammo would have killed it.
  
  ALL wartime 30-06, 303 Enfield, 8mm Mauser, 6.5 Arisaka and Carcano, 7.65x54R, etc were primed with chlorate (corrosive) primers.

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  fordsix

  July 16, 2017 10:56

  1954 and on NC

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  Tflogger

  July 16, 2017 11:29

  quote:Originally posted by fordsix
  1954 and on NC
  
  Didn't Frankford make corrosive 45 auto later than that?

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  aldo35

  July 16, 2017 16:52

  quote:Originally posted by rufe-snow
  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

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  aldo35

  July 16, 2017 16:53

  quote:Originally posted by TRAP55
  https://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-24947587498613/USGI-ammo.pdf
  
  
  Thanks

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  richarda

  July 17, 2017 06:26

  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.

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  XXCross

  July 17, 2017 09:12

  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.

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  b0400879

  July 25, 2017 12:25

  Correcting some errors:
  
  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).

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