Found some interesting Smith & Wesson ammo...(pic)...

[stiab]

Came across this for $2.00 at a gunshop the other day, so I picked up two of them. It had come in with some firearms trade or purchase. I had never seen any like this before. There is some of similar packaging in the book, but not with this label.

 

[smithman 10]

S&W .30-06

Don't know anything about it but would have bought a bunch if I saw some.

My favorite rifle round .30-06 - can't have enough and $2 for 10 rounds is dirt cheap!

 

[brucev]

Cool find.

 

[desi2358]

I've had several different calibers in that type of package before, never had one with the "made in Canada" sticker though. This was a 70's era package if I remember right. I wonder about the "Canada" label, the Bilingual "child warning" was on at least a couple of the packs I had but I thought that was simply to allow for export sales up north. I wonder if someone just added the label. I know that other ammo makers have made deals with foreign producers to get around tariffs and allow for more competitive pricing by having them produce under license or shipping componets to be assembled in country allowing them to label it as "locally made". Nice find.

 

[tjpopkin]

I still have lots of S&W boxes of .357 Magnum and .45ACP(maybe others as well).
Anyone interested @ $30.00/box +shipping?

Terry

 

[ACP230]

The ammo may have been made by CIL in Canada.
I never saw S&W ammo with that name on it, but years back there was CIL made ammo sold in the U.S.

I have some Savage .22 Hi Power ammo made by them.

 

[Troystat]

I bought some just like that in the early 1980's probably 1981 in a store in Phoenix, don't remember the name of the store but it was a discount store and I remember it being inexpensive for the time, maybe have the price of Winchester ammo. I think I shot it at soda cans for fun and gave the brass to my dad to reload. If I saw that ammo today at 2 bucks for 10 rounds I would have cleaned the store out. It would be perfect for my S&W 1500

 

[Larry from Bend]

I still have some of those carriers (purchased empty) or at least quite similiar. Maybe from the mid 80s. The carriers were different colors for different calibers. You loaded them with cartridges and then snapped them together at one end --- the other end was hinged. Mine didn't work all that well.

 

[roundgunner]

I have this box from years ago, drug this around with me every time I got transfered.

 

[rburg]

Mine didn't work all that well.

Thats an interesting comment. I bought some at a gun show in the 1980s (S&W Brand). I had more misfires in that first box of 50 than I've had in the rest of my shooting combined! So I guess I could/should be polite like you and just say mine didn't work all that well. But really, it was so bad that I'd not buy any at any price. Ammo that doesn't fire reliably, every time, isn't worth having around. Just like an unreliable gun.