Another cool “Barn Find”

[Callison76]

Again, digging through this estate, came across 4 boxes post marked from the Department of the Army. Open the only one that is already cut open and find boxes of M118 / M72 projectiles straight from Lake City. In total there were 39 unopened individual boxes of 100 projectiles.

 

[Big50]

Good snag!

 

[Bocephus123]

dang great usable history

 

[Method]

Certainly not a typical find, it would seem. Interesting score!

 

[HiredHand]

“The new M118 ammo used the same 173gr FMJBT (Full Metal Jacket Boat Tail) bullet that the .30-06 M72 Match ammo used. This bullet was manufactured by Lake City and was based on the 1956 International Match bullet. The bullet itself had a lead alloy core (90% lead, 10% antimony) with a gilding metal jacket comprised of 90% copper and 10% zinc. The boattail was a 9 degree taper and was .225″ long. The original specification weight was 173gr but as time progressed and the tooling wore out, that weight began to spread from 172 – 175gr. The claimed ballistic coefficient of the bullet is .494 which was very high for that time period.”

Source: History of the M118 Ammunition - Sniper Central

 

[KroyWen]

As Napoleon Dynamite would say “ LUCKY “ !!!

 

[Method]

This deserves a top 10 Napoleon Dynamite vid.

 

[Seadog]

Again, digging through this estate, came across 4 boxes post marked from the Department of the Army. Open the only one that is already cut open and find boxes of M118 / M72 projectiles straight from Lake City. In total there were 39 unopened individual boxes of 100 projectiles.View attachment 289430View attachment 289431

Awesome score!

 

[HoLeChit]

I have a case of the successor to that stuff, M118LR. Comes with 175gr SMKs. Haven’t shot any yet, but I got it for a decent price.

 

[AKmoose]

I have a case of the successor to that stuff, M118LR. Comes with 175gr SMKs. Haven’t shot any yet, but I got it for a decent price. View attachment 294706View attachment 294707

Nice find! I have a couple boxes of that from waaay back, don't want to shoot it. I remember Bob Howard (gun guy not car guy) that had the gun shop on Reno south of the fairgrounds had ammo cans of that stuff.