It is 74 LC ( I think....It's been a week) I found it about a week ago and a guy at the gun show offered me $40 a box...They are 50 round boxes...Is that a good price now days?...Charlie
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It is 74 LC ( I think....It's been a week) I found it about a week ago and a guy at the gun show offered me $40 a box...They are 50 round boxes...Is that a good price now days?...Charlie
Any ammo is now pricey in my area, .30 carbine is hard to find. $40-$45 a box last I saw. Seems like a lot of guys have gone into the hoarding mode. But I think it will settle down next year.
Glad I still have some in the ammo locker from when it was less expensive ($12.00 a box) years..... ago. Those 600 and 800 round spam cans that we thought went for too much ($225-$300) years ago as collector pieces, might now be opened and sold or shot off.
Last 350 I shot were PC 43 (Kings Mills).
The CMP deal was $549 for 27 boxes. That's $20 a box. Mine was LC71. That is about as cheap as you could get genuine USGI. CMP has none left.
A fellow had a spam can 6oo rounds for $800 ...I passed and offered to sell all mine for $1 he declined..Charlie
The CMP ammo went fast. It was sold out when I tried to call the day after I saw the notice. Prices are nuts right now. I'll wait before I feel like I am getting extorted. Prices will come back down. Though to what level I don't know.
I saw .45 acp at $29.99 Friday. The same brand at the same LGS was $17.99 a few months back. I can wait.
I sold several boxes of 45ACP for $30 - $35 at a show on Saturday and picked up a bunch of .30 Carbine (LC 43) for $18 a box. Everbody was going crazy for .22 ammo - I sold off about a 1/3 of my "stash" at 6-10 cents per round. All the .22 that I took was gone in not much over an hour - same with a guy next to me who sold a full case of steel cased Russian .22LR for $20 per brick in about the same amount of time. I'm glad I didn't take all I had, or it would all be gone. :nono: - Bob
Yea I sold 7 bricks in 7 minutes...$40 per...Charlie
The last 30 carbine that Lake City and the military ever made was in 1973. Most of it went to Viet Nam but some is still around and it pops up from time to time.
War Baby III pages 1397 to 1420, talk about and list, carbine ammunition by makers and headstamps. It lists LC 73 as the last.
Charlie, could you check that again?
At a Portland gunshow yesterday, I found one vendor with Aguila .30 Carbine ammo for $23 but most were pricing their carbine ammo anywhere from $30-$60. The $60 was for soft points. I saw 100rd CCI "mini-mags" for $20 and asked the guy if he was serious. His comment was, "They may not sell today, but they will eventuallly." Most of the regular ammo vendors had bulk packs of .22LR priced at $80. :dunno: - Bob
I picked up 27 boxes of LC 71 .30 Carbine last month on GunBroker for a little over $30/box. Perhaps resale of CMP ammo. Since CMP was out, I'm happy.
Good ammo score Bob. What is the marking on the back of that, what looks like to be, a Hardback 30 you have there ?. Thanks. Mike.
DCM price on .30 Carbine was .04 @ round...1200 round case (two cans, bandoleers and stripper clips) $48.00 plus Railway Express collect charges. (The big green truck with the red diamonds)
Hi Mike, I got the (2) mags from the same guy that had the ammo. The 15 rounder is marked BW, and I gave $10 for it. I couldn't believe the Hardback was still there, probably 3 hours into the show - $20 price tag on it. It's marked SEY - a little bit of discoloration, but not bad. He had 6 boxes of the ammo on the table and I bought all of it. He wanted to know if I was interested in more. Yes! ;) - so he made a quick trip home and brought me back 10 more boxes. - BobQuote:
Originally Posted by Mikey51
Bob,
You scored on the ammo and the mags. Good going.
Good buying Bob. I have a few boxes of 42-43 Lake City. Those genuine hardbacks are hard to find. If I see a 30 for sale, where the indents follow the curve of the mag, I tell the wife I'll be home when I have located it and had a look at it. She understands. Hard to find. Some of us here on the forum have a few, but are reluctant to post pics of the stampings/markings in case we help the dishonest folk. I think the few that I have come across will be from the Korean/Vietnam conflicts. I am still trying to establish why they are so rare. I think Bill R will know much, much more than me on that subject. Mike.
Bill emailed me once that all the hardbacks and the split backs marked SEY, A.I. and the really rare A1/M2 (got one!) were made in 1945-46. The "J" split backs were made in the mid-60s if memory serves me right. They made a lot more split backs than the more expensive to manufacture hardbacks. Supposedly the guys who used carbines for a living would always grab the hardbacks over the split backs when resupplied.
I think they are "rare" because they obviously don't make true USGI "banana clips" anymore and so many were lost in action, worn out & tossed away. Plus they hold 30-rounds. :D