Danish 30-06

[Major Tom]

Way back, the popular ammo for garands was the Danish surplus 30-06 loaded in garand enblocs and bandliers. It was priced right and quickly sold out? I bought 3 wood crates of it @ approx. 660 rounds per crate. It was berdan primed and was very accurate in all my garands with zero malfunctions.
Anybody still have some?

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BTW, I get requests for my handmade pistol boxes. So, now I do not make them anymore as cost of wood and etc. have risen. I still have 4 or 5 left tho.
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[barretcreek]

Just got a can (500) PRVI "for M1 Garand" at LGS. Graf's-one per customer.

[lyman]

had a small amount, but either shot it or sold it,

when it was cheap, I had a stack of M2 Lake City, and started reloading , so never bought too much of it

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[dryheat]

I had 100 rds I got from somewhere and I treated it like valuable jewelry. It's all gone now.

[jcg&jmbfan]

I have a sealed crate of lot 3 AMA 87 and an open crate of lot 4 AMA 91. Seems like there are several bandoliers in an ammo can somewhere. According to my notes it totals 1500 rounds.

[Art]

Excellent ammunition, accurate and very reliable. I think it was loaded a bit on the light side but who cares about that as long as it worked the action. I think our son still has a couple of bandoleers left.

[bruce]

Bought it like it was candy. Sweet stuff for my M-1's. Alas, the candy store is long since sold out! Thank God for HXP and reloading! Sincerely. bruce.

[togor]

Close to 10 years ago the CMP sold off spam cans of Lake City Ball M2, cartons, 520 rounds, early 50's non-corrosive era. Not cheap for the time (0.50 a round, LOL), but if anyone encounters it, it is very nice shooting ammo. Better than HXP and certainly better than the Talon-delinked.

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[lyman]

IIRC, Talon was not just delinked, but unloaded or broken down and reloaded,

mediocre at best,


however, I have a couple cans left of the Talon 4895 that is still good and does a good load in both 223/5.56 and 30.06

[dryheat]

I still have a few hundred rds. of Talon. It came in an oversized white paper box. I always thought it was ridiculous to tear down perfectly good ammo and then rebuild it but I guess it paid.
The Danish was the best ever, except for this:
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Don't know why I get this giant picture too.

[dryheat]

I consider the AMA stuff to be very accurate, but this stuff is just as good. Yes, it's stamped 94 (I should have gotten a shot of a nicer case). I didn't pay $20 a box for this but I would have.

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I guess good reloaders can make rds. like this, but I never got into weighing cases and all.

[togor]

IIRC, Talon was not just delinked, but unloaded or broken down and reloaded,

mediocre at best,


however, I have a couple cans left of the Talon 4895 that is still good and does a good load in both 223/5.56 and 30.06

Some was repackaged.

The stuff sent to the CMP was simply de-linked and put in the brown boxes.

This was ammo the CMP got from the army and sent to Talon for processing.

Talon also had some de-mil contracts that allowed them to do reload/repackage.

The CMP ammo, the mixed lots cannot be excluded as a reason for the big groups. The HXP that came out at that time, single lot right out of the spam can, clip or carton, just as God intended. :)

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CMP also sold off cans of M118LR for a time. Peel off the stickers to see that all cartons in a can were of the same sublot.

M118LR was also sold by Federal in bulk for awhile, at the same or higher price than the CMP. Paying "match ammo" prices for bulk packaging of mixed lots makes zero sense to me, but presumably they sold all they had to sell.

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I consider the AMA stuff to be very accurate, but this stuff is just as good. Yes, it's stamped 94 (I should have gotten a shot of a nicer case). I didn't pay $20 a box for this but I would have.

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I guess good reloaders can make rds. like this, but I never got into weighing cases and all.

I bought a lot of pulldown M852 projectiles off a guy some years ago. 168 gr SMK. Possible collet or faint case crimp mark on them, but no stabs. Priced right.

They do not group quite as well as virgin SMK 168s, but for practice ammo, they are very very nice to have.

[Johnny P]

Never shot a lot of the M72 Match in the M1 Rifle, but shot a lot of the XM118 in my SA NM M1A. The M852 was an improvement over the XM118 in the M1A, and when a friend bought several bulk boxes of the XM118 173 grain bullets we found out why. Bullet weight in the 173 grain bullets varied by up to 3 or 4 grains either way. He never bothered to load any and stuck with the 168 grain Sierra HPBT.

[Ltdave]

ive got a case of the Danish. not sure if it has 660 rounds in it though. ive got another empty with 1,000 rounds of IMI 55g .223 ammo...

ive got a lot of the 280rd .30cal cans DCM/CMP was selling 20-25 years ago and i have one case (two .50cal cans) of the brown boxed -06 CMP was selling at the turn of the century. i bought two cases of that and shot almost all of one. i sold some of it to another shooter. it shot surprisingly well, i thought

[usmc69]

Way back, the popular ammo for garands was the Danish surplus 30-06 loaded in garand enblocs and bandliers. It was priced right and quickly sold out? I bought 3 wood crates of it @ approx. 660 rounds per crate. It was berdan primed and was very accurate in all my garands with zero malfunctions.
Anybody still have some?

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BTW, I get requests for my handmade pistol boxes. So, now I do not make them anymore as cost of wood and etc. have risen. I still have 4 or 5 left tho.
I cannot seem to remove my signature (below)

I still have an unopened case in my ammo locker. It will stay that way.