Danish Ammo

[Aragorn243]

I have been loading Garand clips over the past couple of weeks and what I have is PPU Garand ammo. Ran out of that last night and pulled out the Danish ammo that I have and the bullets are set about a quarter inch deeper than the PPU. Is this normal? Are they OK or is the PPU loaded wrong? I have shot the PPU and it worked fine.

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[vintage hunter]

Been a while since I've had any but dont recall the OAL being that much different from any other m2 ball. It's high quality and I never had any sort of problems with it.
The bullets have a cannelure so I'd say if its visible they're fine.

[Ovidio]

Are you talking 30-06 or .308 Steve?

[Aragorn243]

30-06 I have two boxes of them. I'll take a photo of the two types side by side and post it.



Danish is on the left, PPU on the right.

It's marked AMA 61.

I did a search on the headstamp and found a photo comparing it to Greek ammo and the Danish looks about the same next to the Greek as it does to the PPU so I guess this is normal.

[browningautorifle]

It's a slightly different bullet profile isn't it? Looks like it's more rounded so that would account for the short OAL I guess.

[usabaker]

the bullets are set about a quarter inch deeper than the PPU

Its not the Over All Lenth for these to that make them shootable or not, it where the OGIVE sits. The two bullets have a different profile but are set at the correct distance for chambering and distance to where the ogive engages the riflings. My bet is, if you put these on a comparator tool bullet ogive seating depth between these two rounds will be near to the same.

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Curious, They might also be two different bullet weights. Be interesting to see what weight difference a scale shows.

[Ovidio]

That is quite some difference in length...

[Ex Crab]

I have been loading Garand clips over the past couple of weeks and what I have is PPU Garand ammo. Ran out of that last night and pulled out the Danish ammo that I have and the bullets are set about a quarter inch deeper than the PPU. Is this normal? Are they OK or is the PPU loaded wrong? I have shot the PPU and it worked fine.

I shoot both Danish M2 and Priv Partizan in my Garand, I reckon Prvi is a shade better in terms of grouping, but both function well. The advantage of Danish ammo for me is that it is a good deal cheaper.

[browningautorifle]

I too would be interested to see a comparison between the two bullets if possible...

[Ovidio]

Did you notice the same length difference?