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01-03-2005, 07:03 PM
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Surplus ammo
The local gun shop is a treasure trove of small lots of surplus ammo. From places unknown, surplus ammo turns up. I found four 70-round boxes of 7.62x25mm ammo that appears to be East German or Czech and got it for next to nothing. I also came across a few boxes of 9mm Largo (which I have not seen for years) and wished I knew someone who could use it. In the back room was a half case of pre-WWII (1935) 8mm Mauser ammo with German markings in stripper clips in 15-round boxes. I asked the shop owner where he gets this stuff. His response was that folks drop it off. I always enjoy visiting the shop and looking around. All the best...
Gil 
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01-04-2005, 01:30 AM
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Dear Gil;
...was in a local shop a couple of years ago, the owner had ordered a case of 9mm largo by mistake. It had sat in the store for quite some time and due to the shipping to return it, he offered to GIVE it to me (the whole case)!!! I had no use for it, don't know what he did with it.
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01-04-2005, 07:50 AM
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Gil,
I can use that 9mm Largo in my Astra 400 pistol. I have not seen it for a while so please go back to the shop and cut me a good deal. I can use some 9mm Steyr for my M1912 pistol, some 8x50 Austrian ammo for the M1895 rifle, some 8mm Kroptchak rifle ammo, 8mm Lebel ammo and any other odd ball stuff you find. Thanks. Adam
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Adam Helmer Last edited by Adam Helmer; 01-04-2005 at 07:55 AM.
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01-08-2005, 06:10 AM
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Adam;
...went to shop, owner wasn't there...clerk advised that owner had already given the ammo away. Sorry.
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01-09-2005, 06:01 PM
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Adam
I went back and picked up two boxes of 9mm Largo made in February 1962. They are sealed boxes so should be OK. All the best...
Gil
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01-10-2005, 07:20 PM
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A little while back, Dillon Precision had some 9mm Largo, original Spanish military...might want to check their website see if they have any more.
Here's a quicky question: As some of you know, I'm starting up a World War One re-enacting unit, and one of the logistical problems I'm looking at is 8x56R blank ammo. Am looking right now at a spent 8x56mm Mannlicher, right next to a once-fired 7.62 x54mm...and if these rounds headspace ON THE RIM, I might be able to --perhaps--use Eastbloc surplus 7.62 x 54mm blanks (NOT LIVE AMMO!) in the Mannlichers my unit will be picking up.... (If this is infeasible, need to get verification of WHICH units of the Central Powers made use of M-1888 Commission rifles....8x57 blanks I can find!)
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01-11-2005, 09:56 AM
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Mad Reloader,
I have seen photos of German WWI troops armed with the M1888 rifle. The M1888 was "Limited Standard" issue to Reserve troops while the front line troops got the M1898. As German Reserves were called up into the meatgrinder of trench warfare, they brought their 1888s with them. The Sultan of Turkey got a shipment or two of M1888 rifles from Germany early in WWI, or just before. The Bulgarians bought some 1888 Carbines before WWI and probably took them into combat in WWI. Be well. Adam
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