Spam cans

[DICKX]

JUST A QUICK NOTE.
CMP Estore has SPAM CANS, 192 rounds for $115.00 shipped. AMMO header, bottom of page 2
Dick

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Item ID: 4C3006X216-192P
Description: M2 Ball, .30-06, Greek HXP 192 RDS PER SPAM CN

M2 Ball, .30-06 Greek HXP (Pyrkal) manufacture. Packaged
in 8 rd enbloc clips, 6 clips per bandoleer, 4 bandoleers
per spam can. 192 in a spam can. Boxer primed, non-
corrosive. Headstamp varies HXP62-HXP80. THIS AMMO ATTRACTS
A MAGNET. Weight is 15 lbs per can.

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[Charlie303]

Reminds me that about 15 years ago we could buy excellent quality .303 HXP ammo for our Lee Enfields. It came in wooden boxes of 600, divided into 2 x 300 rnds in sealed 'spam cans'. The ammo was in original WW2* 'stripper clips' (also called chargers) in bandoliers.

The supply dried up after a few years, although I heard that there was still plenty available but couldn't be exported from Greece to UK because the packaging (as above) didn't meet current European shipping regulations! . To take it out and repackage wouldn't have been cost effective.

*very occasionally WW1 clips!