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WWII sutplus 8MM ammo .

Bill Jordan
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 christian
    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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  • jonk
    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 Jordan
    Thanks,at least know how to advertise it.
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    Corrosive primers no doubt?
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  • MIKE WISKEY
    "Corrosive primers no doubt?".......not the bunch I've shot (9mm too)
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  • mark christian
    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-snow
    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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  • TRAP55
    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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