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Vintage Sealed Boxes National Match 30-06


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I'm finally down to the bottom of the box of the collection I bought a couple of weeks ago.

This is the last item I thought people might be interested in seeing. The colors have faded over time, but all three boxes are still sealed and the bottoms (last pic) are perfect. No bullet tips poking thru.

 

Hope you enjoy, Art

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Very Nice, I am guessing 5 rd. clips.

 

Yes, enblocs never came boxed and I'm pretty sure they were using the '03-A3 in the matches back then anyhow. To the best of my knowledge, the Army didn't get M-1s until 1939.

I really can't say if or when they ever changed to M-1s for the matches. Perhaps someone can enlighten us with that info - I for one would be interested to know.

 

Art

 

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I'm guessing they were shooting 1903's then, wow those a in great condition and would guess very rare to find.

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Charlie Flick

Yes, great looking boxes. This ammo would have been used in the M1903 Springfield National Match rifles.

 

Regards,

Charlie

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silverplate

The Ordnance Department had sent 200 M1 Garands to the 1940 National Matches for demonstration purposes, but the first use of the M1 in the National Matches didn't occur until 1948, and those early rifles were service rifles that were "tweaked" for match use. The first true National Match M1 Rifle appeared in the early 1950s.

 

Those are great looking boxes of M1 Match Ball. The 1940 Match was the last use of M1 Ball, since the M2 Ball was already starting to replace it as the standard round.

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1940 was the last year of any Match Grade ammo available until 1953.

Supposedly, there are credible records indicating thousands of boxes of 1941 were produced, but none have ever turned up. It is understandable that if they actually were made, they could very well have been diverted to use in either combat or the the accelerated training program going on at the end of '41.

 

it seems unlikely to me however, there should not be a few boxes surviving that people kept as souvenirs (as there always are), or perhaps some empty boxes, or at the very least some used brass around, but alas, only the records of manufacture exist.

 

Art

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This isn't mine, I wish it was, but just thought I'd post the pic. it's 1954 Frankford Match Ammo for the 1954 Palma Match

 

Art

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