wow that's a lot of stuff! No one knows how much I have or what I paid for it

I bet you still paid a lot for all that, but 20-30% below market price is a great deal on ammo! I love the vintage 38 special, 44, and 357 boxes. Nothing wrong with vintage ammo if it still shoots IMO.

Is that EC lot .45 ammo steel cased?

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Sorry forgot to answer. And I don’t know, haven’t opened it yet.

LGS gifted me a few boxes of old ammo, 9mm, .32 ACP, .25 ACP and .22 short





Then I bought this typically Swiss curiosity, a can of GP11 “Taschenmunition”, or pocket ammunition. As you may know, the Swiss militia soldiers kept their rifles at home, and were therefore given a sealed can of 24 rounds, to be only used in case of mobilisation and in order to reach a meeting point.









Precisely this reads :

Guidelines for pocket ammunition
This pocket ammunition is intended exclusively for personal protection during active duty, especially before reaching the designated duty station.
The pocket ammunition is to be presented at each service and during communal inspections.
Anyone who opens the box improperly or misuses the ammunition will be punished in accordance with the order concerning ammunition.
Federal Military Department, Bern 1970

The gentleman who sold me the Rem 700 VTR also had a case of Swiss GP90 (5.56 NATO) for a reasonable price ($350.-)







He was also kind to gift me 260 rds of Barnaul .223



And I bought some 9mm subsonic and .30M1 ammo from two different private sellers

I didn't start out to be a Ammo Hoarder (AH) either ... or a Hoarder of Reloading Supplies (RSH) primers , powders and brass , Wheel- Weight Hoarder (WWH) and Bullet Moulds Hoarder (BMH) ....

But circumstances beyond my control have forced me to commit these various Acts of Hoarding !!!

I didn't want to ... but , the Devil made me do it !
Gary

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All the Evansville Chrysler .45 ammo that I've seen has been in steel cases. Head stamps were EC43 and EC4.

To the OP - Nice collection of ammo. Things being how they are here, I doubt that many American shooters with large volumes of ammo would, or will publicly proclaim what they have stashed or produce public pictures. A bird just landed on my window sill and whispered to me that there might be situations here where yours would be considered a "starter collection".

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How much does ammo cost in U.S. dollars over there??

Some people are just down right lucky or at the right place at the right time.

Those pictures and prices paid for the ammo, just want me to lay down and cry.

You did very well, kind sir.

Enjoy that .30 cent ammo........
and mostly the 38 & 357 that is now , around $1 for the good stuff.

Back in April I ordered 20 boxes of Geco .38 spl wad cutter for $ 18.-/box. Only 4 arrived as they were out of stock, the rest was on back order. It finally came with the invoice at the same price despite the general increase of ammo prices. Great shop to deal with.





Also got 150 rds of .357 Sig for $50.- from a private seller





And 224 rds of Swiss army 7.65 mm Parabellum (.30 Luger) for $60.- from another private seller

Need patience to find .38SP here also.




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Well done, sir. Use it in good health!

Impressive, Classic12! Impressive collection but also a great collection of ammo from a historical point of view. Most of it should shoot just fine if it looks OK.

Classic12, you are a one-man Swiss Guard!

You have an incredible collection for sure. I guess I assumed that Switzerland and most of Europe had been disarmed by the EU Gun Ban. I am glad to hear that is not the case.

There used to be at least one or two dealers in obsolete ammo at our local gun shows. Would sell as small as 1 round or 20 rounds of obsolete ammo for our cartridge collections. In some cases you could buy a whole box (50 rounds) which old ammo usually came packed it. Since I usually attended both shows I would run into at least one of them. Last few shows neither had been in attendance. Which was a shame really. Usually had a pretty good selection of old ammo. My favorite selection was various loadings of the old straight walled cartridges such as 32-40, 38-55, 45-70 and the like. Frank

Your second-hand ammo stash is fantastic, and it's all in really great shape.
Mine isn't in that great of shape, it's more on the side of "used", but I just started on the journey...

Hope to figure out how to re-shape the pointy things that go out the barrel, but first I need to come up with a few more components.... the search will be fun...



On a semi serious note, I'm very envious that you are able to find good stuff, our ammo market(s) were slammed by Covid and the new generation of shooters, I guess that's a good thing (the new shooter part). Ammo is starting to show up more these days, but our/my ability to buy older stuff is pretty much in a gun-show setting, and most of the sellers seem to think that lead is more valuable than actual precious metals these days...

Thanks for sharing...

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I recently bought the modern version of the pocket ammunition GP 90 (Swiss version of the 5.56 NATO)

Picked up a mix of ammo from a guy who sold his guns, .22 lr, 9mm, .38 spl, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, .223. I paid $ 360 for the lot, 1450 rds of .22 and 860 rds of other calibers.





And a lot of 7.62X39 from another guy. His rifle didn’t like the steel case. My Norincos will swallow anything.

920 rounds of Barnaul



And 440 rounds of Bishkek, milsurp from the Kirghiz republic. $ 500 for 1360 rounds in total

So now they give out 50 rounds instead of 24? You guys expecting trouble?

The SPAM can is kind of funny.

Well the old Stgw 57 magazine capacity was 24 rounds. And similarly to the US, Switzerland went from 7.5 Swiss (7.62 in the US) to 5.56 NATO, lighter round, you can carry more.

I'd say let's invade Switzerland and take all his ammo... but they've got us outgunned...

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I was gonna say, do you realise we have all the guns that go with the ammo too ?

@CLASSIC12,
You can try to fool yourself but you Sir are a horder!! lol

That is am amazing amount of ammo with most of it looking like it's high quality.
I never see a stash of ammo like that available here.

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Found 240 rounds of Pistol Cartridge 41, the Swiss military 9mm round manufactured in the Thun arsenal factory, in a gun shop. The best quality 9mm imo. This is what I exclusively shoot in competitions and matches.



More intriguing and probably rare, they also had a box of Winchester .38 special Mid Range with a Swiss army label on it.

I have no idea what this was used for, the Swiss army being primarily equipped with semi automatic pistols since 1900 and the first Swiss Luger (Parabellum Pistole 1900).

Another Swiss curiosity I just found, two complete packages of cartridge 326, that is 7.65 mm short or Browning (.32 ACP in the US), manufactured in the Swiss arsenal factory of Thun (today property of RUAG).

The Swiss army acquired 730 Walther PPK, 415 with lightweight alloy frames (Duralium) and 315 with steel frames (Pistole 65). Those were issued to pilots of Mirage III fighter jets as well as some ground personnel

LGS sold me 600 rds of GP11 / 7.5 Swiss for a bargain 0.25 $ per round



And from various private sellers

650 rds of GP90 / Swiss 5.56 NATO







200 rds of South African (PMP- Pretoria Metal Pressing) R1M1 7.62 X 51 NATO from 1981

Shot their 5.56 NATO, good ammo imo







950 rds of Old PMC .357 and a box of vintage Magtech





250 rds of Various .357



250 rds of 9mm subsonic





200 rds of Vintage CCI Stinger



200 rds of .30 Carbine



1000 rds of .22 Magnum







550 rds of Vintage Magtech .38 special wad cutter









A good start of the year for my ammo stash

You crack me up. I want to go "shopping" with you.

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Something like a minor panic over here regarding the Swiss GP-11. Supplies have just about dreied up and since many shooters do not reload. So you are probably sitting on a small fortune of GP-11. Frank