The Canadian Mil Spec 9mm was manufactured by IVI, this was Sub Gun Ammo, weighed in at 116g I believe. With very hard primers. Fast.
I met a retired General from the Canadian Army, I forget his name. At a Military Exposé, in Ottawa. We made a deal for 300,000 rounds. Next time I met him, to pay, I paid with money orders, each member of our club paid for their portion. the cost was 10c per round. This batch failed the drop test.
We received a demand note for the fed. tax, 10%? as the cash had been paid, and to collect this extra cash, was problematic, the Government dropped the price to 9c a round? I think that's how it worked.
Remembered the Name of the Gen. JJ Paradise. The only paper he had to give me a receipt, was a cheque, he wrote on the back of it. PAID IN FULL.
Hence the price reduction. It came in little cardboard boxes, 64 rounds per box, packed in bigger boxes. One box per two Sten Gun magazines.
The Israeli ammo was packed the same way, black tipped, only they were wrote on in Hebrew. The Club was a Machine Gun Club, it fired in Sten's and Sterling's, but lots of misfires in our New Glock 17s.
Gaston changed the angle on the tip of the firing pins, this increased sharper point, fixed the problem. It fired in any Browning Hi Powers we had, no problem. Sending the Ammo to Austria was a problem, to show our dilemma.
A single stipulation, we could not sell it, had to fired on the Range, a Military one. A lot was fired in our own ranges, but I do not remember any being sold, it never turned up at any gun shows anyhow.
A walk down memory Lane. See what happens when you get old!
