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Caliber .30 AN-M2 Ball Ammo from local gun show.


Scottz63
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Mint in un-opened box. Caliber .30 AN-M2 for Browning aircraft machine gun I am reading. Not sure though. The headstamp on the opened box he had was dated 1956, if my old eyes could read it correctly. Lol

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Doing some more research, I think this is just standard issue 30-06  ball ammo. Anybody have a date for the lot number? The open box had a headstamp of 56 with the same lot number. I assume that's what this is.

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Charlie Flick

AN means Army Navy.  It explains that the ammo met both service standards and was suitable for use in the Browning AN M2 aerial machine gun which had a rate of fire somewhat higher than the standard M2.  

The AN designator was an attempt to bring commonality to standards to avoid overlapping and duplicative standards that would be inefficient.

Charlie 

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