Lake City 59 ammo.

[USGI]

The reason I brought up this old thread a few days ago is because I had just found that link in Charlie's old thread showing the "cut-a-way case." I knew that Jim (BAR) would be interested because there had been talk of "one flash hole" cases earlier in this thread. When my oldest brother got his CMP Inland in 2007 (under $500) he picked up several boxes of the "Chinese" ammo near his location in CA. For the next 6-7 years he came up every summer and we shot the heck out of our Carbines together.

I rummaged around and found that I still had at least one of his empty boxes and had just one empty shell case - which I had shown here several years ago. I had planned to try getting that primer out and inspect the case, but found it has two flash holes - don't know if it would be like the one in that link or not? The article talked about "two holes" but his cutaway doesn't really show that. I still may try to remove the primer, but busy with "other things" right now. If I do, I'm going to try putting a bullet in the case (on top of some oil or grease) and then pressing the bullet down with the case in a shell holder - maybe will just try the vise instead of the hydraulic press.

Charlie, that looks more like an extractor groove than one for an ejector! I've caught myself doing that same thing - also hate Windows putting things in the same folder as last time, but sometimes that can be helpful. I've been careful lately to add a recognizable name to files before saving, so I can find find them a bit easier when that happens.

FYI, the empty "Chinese" box I have doesn't have a bunch of staples in it. Makes me wonder if these are in production again? - since even the supply of Korean surplus carbine ammo seems to be drying up or being hoarded like the USGI stuff a lot of us are hanging onto.

Will attach some pictures from about 12 years ago. Did you guys see where that article made a challenge for someone to try removing one of the primers? I'd like to get one out just to see if they're the same size as our small rifle primers. I know the Wolf/Tula uses quite a bit larger ones. - Bob