Thread: Powder Use By Date?

Around 1967 (just after decimal currency) I bought a Sako Forester in 308.
At that time the govt of the day protected the CAC company, which was still producing ammo locally including 308W, by prohibiing the import of overseas produced 308W. Relative to my wages the CAC was not cheap.

My branch of the NZDA did several annual goat culls on some of the big local stations. This was pretty ammo intensive. At that time there was an abundance of milsurp 30-06 around generally at around 2 cents a round. I bought hundreds of rounds mostly Twin Cities, Denver Arsenal and Frankford Arsenal IIRC.
I stripped the ammo with an inertia puller made out of a short length of 1/2" water pipe with handle welded to it and a crude clamp to reat in the round. It took some pretty fearsome wacks onto concrete to strip the ammo. I cringe a bit when I recall this.

The cases I cut down and formed them into 308W. The projectiles I hollow pointed using a drilling jig, and of course the excellent 4895 I re-used to make great cheap goat ammo.