Is this ammo collectible?

[stoneypete]

I don’t collect ammo I just shoot it. However, years ago I came into box of ammo and used it at a cowboy shoot, and a fellow shooter was shocked that I shot a classic box of shotgun shells. To me it was just ammo.

So before I send this down the pipe of my 1911s is this something collectible? It was part of a trade I did last summer. To me it’s just something to shoot.


or is it just ammo?

 

[greencobra]

anything is collectable. you just need another person to agree. me, it's ammo. i've blasted my way thru many a "collectable" box or two in my life.

 

[Rick O'Shea]

Save the brass and use it again.

 

[sieveboy]

Might have had a very slight premium previously as a display piece, but the scratched out lot number eliminates that angle. It’s utility ammo. I’d also plan on a FTF or two. Could be corrosive too, TW stopped in ‘54, but this lot had the units digit removed tough to know.

 

[headednorth]

Curious why someone would scratch off the lot number

 

[Ricky_Bobby]

Kinda like these. I was told to just shoot them.

 

[Matt_SERE]

I still have a few of the clear box of 25 count of Black Talon in .45 and 9mm, I just don't know what to do with them.

 

[dhuze]

I've shot some of that. I probably have some laying around still too.

 

[CMEBoston]

I collect the boxes, but if the rounds look decent it’s going down the pipe

 

[45collector]

I've saved these for collectibility reasons. Everything else gets fired.

 

[67ray]

Those old boxes look good as background when photographing guns. And I like collecting the black talon rounds. Prices wise not really much of a premium though.

 

[PatMcD]

I know there's some ammo guys around that could tell you definitively, but I think that ammo was made in 1955.
That plant was built in 1941, but wasnt named "Twin City Arsenal" until 1946. And then they closed in 1960. So, if the number designates the last digit of the year, I'd say it has to be 1955.

There is slight collector value to someone who wants usgi ammo from every plant, or a cold war collector, etc.

 

[AMV]

Hold on to anything long enough it will be collectable, I have a few full wood boxes of Winchester primers from the 1890’s
All a matter of how long you want to wait

 

[BrunoN]

Not sure on values either but they are cool to have. I have an entire sealed can.

 

[BrunoN]

 

[Marty McFly]

Great karma! In!

 

[Maxrobot]

TW 5 headstamp - Twin Cities Arsenal production 1955. Anything post Korean War could be considered Vietnam era collectible. Sort of like an old silver pre-1964 quarter. It would be worth 25¢ face value, but more in melt but some would hold onto it just because it's cool.
You can but new production .45ACP anytime but surplus stuff - well you know it's almost all gone.

 

[ddskehan]

Twin city made small arms ammo till 1943 then change to artillery shells, all different sizes. I had 20 boxes of M2 ball on enbloc clips. The old man that bought them from me about 30 years ago said they weren’t worth shit, and proceeded to shoot a garand match with them. It may have went back to making ammo after the war but that’s all I know

 

[rcwhat]

I’d never trade for someone’s old highly questionable ammo. Hell, I wouldn’t even shoot someone’s old highly questionable ammo out of any of my guns if given to me for free.

 

[ddskehan]

I didn’t trade the ammo? I sold it cause I like money, LOL. It was back in 1990 and he was a ww2 vet shooting his garand. At that point he had forgotten more about guns than I knew. Good guy, he was in the SS but settled in the USA after the war. He died about 15 years ago.

 

[drgrant]

I’d never trade for someone’s old highly questionable ammo. Hell, I wouldn’t even shoot someone’s old highly questionable ammo out of any of my guns if given to me for free.

That ammo is not really questionable at all its just old milsurp. Back when I got my Garand it came with a bunch of ammo from the 40s and it had no problem digesting any of it.

 

[HorizontalHunter]

Where is the Daisy Duke poster?????

 

[ddskehan]

I used to shoot surplus ww1 and 2 surplus 45 up till a a few years ago. Just cleaned my pistols afterwards. What I found is that the primers stopped working. Then that was a reason to train for malfunctions. I used a pps 43 in 86. We were using ww2 Russian surplus and that stuff worked great. That gun is what I miss the most. My first is army sub gun