WW II era .45 ACP

[gunsablazin]

I have been given a full unopened box and a partial box of .45 ACP manufactured by the Evansville Ordnance Plant in 1943. If any of you collect this sort of thing I would sell the full box, but I am going to fire a few of out of the opened box to see how reliable 66 year old ammo is. It looks OK and I think it will shoot just fine.

[MikeW]

Price on the full box? PM if you want.

[Will]

You may want to find out if it is corrosive,it could eat up your bbl

if it is not chrome lined.

[J Smith]

There was a ton of this stuff around a few years ago.

I bought a few hundred rds and it shot great.The primers are corrosive so you may want to clean a little better than normal.

IIRC the 640 rd unopened tins were selling for around 70.00 before all of it got bought up.

[Mike.357]

if it is corrosive be sure to clean the barrel with soap and water or some ammoniated window cleaner in addition to regular cleaning after shooting it.