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Any help with identifying this ammo can
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Finalygotabeltfed
Likely 30.06 ball ammo loaded on 5rd clips in bandoliers for the 1903 Springfield rifle.
Likely repacked over the years to the can from original packaging.
They also spelled "bandoleers" incorrectly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903_Springfield
Likely repacked over the years to the can from original packaging.
They also spelled "bandoleers" incorrectly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903_Springfield
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My neighbor wants to know the time period this ammo can came from. I don't think it's very old.
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I dont know much about ammo cans my dad called those M19 cans as a kid. primary use was for belted machine guns I think these are post WWII design ?
30 call M2 ball was introduced in the late 30s, 5 round clips of M2 are for 1903/1903a3/M1917s So at some point it was repacked could be old surplus repacked at some point or a copy of a can ?
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I think it can go either way bandoleer is english vs french BANDOULIÈRE or spanish bandoleroI have only seen M2 on clips in sealed tins
https://www.google.com/search?q=M2+....6290691557117&bih=451.4553748051796&dpr=1.33
Do you have any of the ammo or bandoleers the bandoleers usually have the lot numbers and such on them also.
https://www.google.com/search?q=M2+....6290691557117&bih=451.4553748051796&dpr=1.33
Do you have any of the ammo or bandoleers the bandoleers usually have the lot numbers and such on them also.
smokey-seven
NES Member
bandoleer or bandolier are the accepted spellings. The ammo head stamp or bandoleer markings will only date the can to the most recent military use, not the original. The can lot numbers might be able to be traced but there were a gazillion of those from 1903 to post Korea.
They came in 30 cal cans too. I have some LC in enblocs and HXP in 5rd strippers both in original 30 cal cans. Looks like these below and you can tell what's in it by the stencil on top.
These are enblocs and the 5rd strippers are just 5 dots in a row stencil.
dhuze
NES Member
They would have used 5 round clips through to Vietnam due to a4 sniper, and loading bar magazines
There's a Korean war vet , sniper at our club. He showed us one day how he loaded his A4 in a hurry.
He took a clip of 5 out of his pocket. With the bullets grasped in his hand he caught the edge of the clip on the trigger guard stripped off the cartridges and proceeded to load the cartridges....fast . They just rolled out of his hand thumb was like a machine....he did say when he was shooting round after round he would just single load. Which he does well also.
Gets 10 rounds off faster than,most of the garands at cmp shoots.
Wow that must have been an interesting demonstration. I was shooting a lot of rounds with mine when I first got it and I started doing the single round loading too just because it was quicker or just as good as loading the 5 in the mag. I'll do the same with the Garand once I run out of loaded clips. Got pretty good at single loading it and releasing the bolt one handed.
