Shooting .30 Carbine ammo from 1945?

Its safe to shoot but I won't shoot an unopened box of ww2 anymore unless I have too..

Good N/C boxer primed ammo as well...

Keep in mind that while the 1945 ammo is safe to shoot, it is also corrosive and must be dealt with as such.
Zeke

Keep in mind that while the 1945 ammo is safe to shoot, it is also corrosive and must be dealt with as such.
Zeke

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One of the first things I ever learned about the M1 Carbine is, that all U.S. manufactured ammo from the very beginning was NOT corrosive. Now, if your 1945 stuff was made by someone else (highly unlikely), it might be corrosive. I have seen some foreign carbine ammo that is corrosive, but if what you have is U.S., it is not.

shooting .30 Carbine ammo from 1945

The only M1 Carbine ammo that is corrosively primer is Chinese counterfeited "LC 52" ammo. All other M1 Carbine ammo is non-corrosive.

I shot and chronographed some LC 1944 ammo and it was 100% functioning and ballistically it was the same as current manufactured Win USA M1 carbine ammo.

Lou
CT,USA

My understanding is that all USGI .30 Carbine ammo is non corrosive.

When I was a kid I shot a lot of French 7.5 Carbine ammo that was berdan and I treated it like it was corrosive....hot water, USGI Rifle Bore CLeaner, light oil and repeat in three days. The ammo was CHEAP-CHEAP-CHEAP at a local grocery store. When Carbine bayonets were higher priced than they are now and in 1970 dollars (more than a highschool kid made in a week) I traded a Japanese made copy to the son of the grocery for several hundred rounds.

My understanding was that there was some Dominican Republic carbine ammo that like the .30-06 there was made actually by Winchester in the US.

-Bob Hollingsworth

I don't know why you would shoot US ammo marked 1945. Everything from WW2 is collectible....except ammo apparently.