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Old February 21, 2013, 09:00 AM   #1
Magnum Wheel Man
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thoughts on 1943 30 carbine ammo... & reloading...

I'm kinda at a quandry with some old cases & loaded ammo I dug up off the back of the ammo shelf when moving everything

I have about 100 rounds of WCC-43 loaded ammo, & about 100 fired cases

also have about 100 rounds of PC-43, & a handfull of fired cases

have about 100 rounds of LC-52, & a handfull of fired cases

I feel the LC-52 aught to be fine, not so sure about the 43 ammo... thinking about shooting it up this summer ( unless it would for some reason be worth more as old ammo than as shooting ammo... I don't have original boxes ) most of the loaded ammo is in good shape, but I did find several that had quite a bit of corrosion on the case... thoughts about just shooting up the corroded cased ammo & not reloading it ??? chance of a ruptured case damaging my carbine ??? BTW... when sorting cases, I found 3 fired WCC-43 cases that were split from mouth to almost the base, but those were not particularly corroded... I have no idea what those were fired in, I think they were just in some old ammo& cases I bought 20-25 years ago... if there were fired in an M-2 would they be more likely to split like that, or could I assume those old cases will have become brittle over time???

thoughts about shooting & reloading these old cases ???
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