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Old 06-20-2016, 09:31 PM
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My mother in law was going through her dad's old stuff and found an old box of ammo. No doubt it was for the old safety squeeze that was handed down to me at his passing. The question I have is there any value other that the ammo value to the old box?




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I have been a cartridge collector for a few decades now. The box was made after 1962 and till around 1979 IIRC. The ammo appears to be in excellent condition and is getting increasingly harder to find, so it should be an easy sell to a man with a gun in this caliber. As far as collectable, there is not much value there. The box has lots of edge wear and is not of a desirable age. Good find though.
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Old 06-20-2016, 11:08 PM
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Why don't you keep the gun and ammo together. Problem solved. Joe
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Agree with the previous statement. Minimal collector value, and no real downside to shooting it. Just save the fired cases. Most collectible ammo having any value premium will be full boxes from pre-WWII.
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While the ammo isn't worth any big bucks just by virtue of its age, it might me worth a premium just because it's getting hard to actually find S&W .38 Rounds (NOT .38 Special of course).
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While the ammo isn't worth any big bucks just by virtue of its age, it might me worth a premium just because it's getting hard to actually find S&W .38 Rounds (NOT .38 Special of course).
That's why I reload 38S&W.
Have two S&W, top break and police positive in that caliber.
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At least there is still enough demand to keep .38 S&W ammunition in production in various parts of the world. But who knows how long that will last? Reloading assures having a continued supply. For many years I have used .38 Super dies for that purpose, and for a long time, .357-.358 lead bullets, which seem to work just fine. BTW, all of the reloading data for .38 S&W provided in my Speer #9 manual uses .357 bullets, both lead and jacketed.
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Thanks for the input. I think it's kind of cool that I have the last box of ammo my wife's grandfather bought back in the day, along with his safety squeeze top break. And yes they are now being kept together.
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