Some old 45 ammo
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Green Frog
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Looks to me like the unknown farmer had a Model 1917 he liked to play with. Hard to believe that tracer ammo would have been packed and sold commercially.
Froggie
Froggie
DWalt
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I have seen several boxes of .45 ACP tracer ammunition in military packaging. There were several dIfferent designations, allegedly used for military training during WWII. I have some loose rounds of it.
However yours is in civilian boxes with a numeric index code, so it is unlikely to be military. It is known that the FBI used tracer ammunition in the Thompson SMG for training and demonstration purposes, and the ammunition was probably bought from Remington on a special order contract. I believe that is what you have. Highly unusual and probably very desirable in the cartridge collector world. Do not fire any of them. You might pose the question on the International Ammunition Association forum website. You will get a much better answer there.
The .45 Auto Rim ammunition was used in Colt and S&W M1917 revolvers. Not by the military. Not too unusual but not common either. All boxes are from the post-WWII period, late 1940s-early 1950s. It can be dated precisely from the lot number alphanumeric stampings on the box.
However yours is in civilian boxes with a numeric index code, so it is unlikely to be military. It is known that the FBI used tracer ammunition in the Thompson SMG for training and demonstration purposes, and the ammunition was probably bought from Remington on a special order contract. I believe that is what you have. Highly unusual and probably very desirable in the cartridge collector world. Do not fire any of them. You might pose the question on the International Ammunition Association forum website. You will get a much better answer there.
The .45 Auto Rim ammunition was used in Colt and S&W M1917 revolvers. Not by the military. Not too unusual but not common either. All boxes are from the post-WWII period, late 1940s-early 1950s. It can be dated precisely from the lot number alphanumeric stampings on the box.
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Doc Watson
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awesome old ammo, thanks for sharing photo
SGT ROCK 11B
Member
Lots of treasures are hidden in old farmhouses.
Just what they did in the days before banks. Banks are very common now.
Love to have those Auto Rim rounds. IIRC, I have a few revolvers chambered in ACP/AR and the AR is hard to come by. And, yeah, I'll use them on the range.
Kaaskop49
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Kaaskop49
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That is way cool! Never seen .45 tracers before. It would be instructive to shoot those (though I wouldn't) just to get a visual of the trajectory.
AJ
US Veteran
Shooting the tracer ammo could and has caused fires. I would not shoot it. I have seen it cause fires both on civilian ranges and military ranges. Our local range bans tracers, if they catch you using tracers you are history. Got enough problems with fires without some body starting them with tracers. Keep them in the box and set them on a shelf to look at.
