bob
Member
I'm too old to be nice but never too old to learn!
Posts: 1,457 
Location: Northern California
|
Post by bob on Aug 31, 2014 16:39:28 GMT -5
I took apart one of my L C 69 '06 cartridge the bullet weight is 151.6 gr. the powder weight is 44.5 grs. Given this the powder is likely CMR 100 anyone know for sure anything about it as I've never heard of it. The other two powders for this load are IMR 4895 and WC852 @ 50 gr.
|
|
dskipper
Member
Posts: 29
Location: northwest florida
|
Post by dskipper on Sept 2, 2014 21:08:46 GMT -5
bob,
a friend gave me a sealed sardine can of 06 cartridges loaded in enblock clips a couple of years ago. he picked them up at a yard sale. i have never fired one of them. i think around mid 60s manufacture. i did disassemble one and looked at everything. the full metal jacket bullets did weight 150 grain. the powder charge to the best of my memory was around 50 grains of some powder i did not recognize even when looking at a reference book. i wasn't sure if the primer was corrosive so i opted not to fire them. at first i thought the cases were steel. they were very...very hard and didn't have a brass look. after using a magnet, i determined they were brass but decided not to shoot them or disassemble them for reloading. still have them in storage.
|
|
bob
Member
I'm too old to be nice but never too old to learn!
Posts: 1,457
Location: Northern California
|
Post by bob on Sept 2, 2014 22:43:34 GMT -5
Dskipper: My ammo is L C 6 9 Lake City 1969 primers OK. Your cartridges are slightly different in that my powder weight is 44.5grs. which is likely C M R 100, yours are likely IMR 4895 or the WC 852 this information is from Cartridges of the World. Your cartridges should be good to shoot. Sorry I don't know how to link, Google non corrosive military primers there is a table which tells by year and lot when the safe primers were used. It appears to be around '51 - '52.
|
|
dskipper
Member
Posts: 29
Location: northwest florida
|
Post by dskipper on Sept 7, 2014 13:28:39 GMT -5
bob,
i took another look at the 30-06 ammo. the head stamp is 30 60 60A. 30 is 30caliber? 60 is 1960 manufacture? 60A is plant of manufacturer? i believe 60A is russian or chinese. they just don't look like anything i've seen before. the brass is very hard and has a deep brown color. the powder (approx 50 grains) looks fresh but unlike anything i've seen before. the boattail 150 fmj bullets look very good. i know they were loaded in m1 garand enbloc clips (approx 25) because i broke the seal on the us military sardine can. i probaby just discard them. thanks for you feedback
|
|
|
|
Post by hacker54 on Sept 7, 2014 23:30:28 GMT -5
David, I do believe this was asked at the old house and I posted the manufacture. Yes the year is 1960 and the 60A refers to where made. 60A 60th Arsenal, Kao Hsiung, Taiwan, Nationalist China. Here is a site that deals in military head stamps. Nice reference source. cartridgecollectors.org/?page=headstampcodes |
|
bob
Member
I'm too old to be nice but never too old to learn!
Posts: 1,457
Location: Northern California
|
Post by bob on Sept 7, 2014 23:50:56 GMT -5
David: Gary is correct with that refrence. If the "sardine can " looked official and the cartridges are brass Iwould try to get more information before discarding them, they maybe fun to shoot. Easy for me to say, and I don't know who to ask. There probably is some military ordinance expert lurking on the internet. Good luck!
|
|
My daughter came from Missouri, my son and grand son, my wife and I had a nice dinner of grilled "porter house" pork chops, corn on the cobb, my son, G'son and I share 10/5. G'son is 4 minutes early though @ 10/4.
Oct 5, 2024 10:16:00 GMT -5
Oct 31, 2024 7:23:05 GMT -5
Pooh I hope you find to right house . 
Oct 31, 2024 8:44:20 GMT -5
Nov 5, 2024 10:37:49 GMT -5
*
While we're at it, let us not for get to Thank a Veteran tomorrow, Veterans Day.
Nov 10, 2024 17:31:14 GMT -5
*
