Second hand ammo

[Classic12]

Found 240 rounds of Pistol Cartridge 41, the Swiss military 9mm round manufactured in the Thun arsenal factory, in a gun shop. The best quality 9mm imo. This is what I exclusively shoot in competitions and matches.

More intriguing and probably rare, they also had a box of Winchester .38 special Mid Range with a Swiss army label on it.

I have no idea what this was used for, the Swiss army being primarily equipped with semi automatic pistols since 1900 and the first Swiss Luger (Parabellum Pistole 1900).

 

[JohnKSa]

Without any more information, I would speculate that maybe there was some kind of competition team at some point that needed the ammunition. That is pretty strange. I'll bet there are some cartridge collectors out there who would be interested in something like that.

 

[Classic12]

Another Swiss curiosity I just found, two complete packages of cartridge 326, that is 7.65 mm short or Browning (.32 ACP in the US), manufactured in the Swiss arsenal factory of Thun (today property of RUAG).

The Swiss army acquired 730 Walther PPK, 415 with lightweight alloy frames (Duralium) and 315 with steel frames (Pistole 65). Those were issued to pilots of Mirage III fighter jets as well as some ground personnel

 

[JohnKSa]

You're on your way to having a pretty decent firearms/ammunition museum!

 

[Classic12]

LGS sold me 600 rds of GP11 / 7.5 Swiss for a bargain 0.25 $ per round

And from various private sellers

650 rds of GP90 / Swiss 5.56 NATO

200 rds of South African (PMP- Pretoria Metal Pressing) R1M1 7.62 X 51 NATO from 1981

Shot their 5.56 NATO, good ammo imo

950 rds of Old PMC .357 and a box of vintage Magtech

250 rds of Various .357

 

[Classic12]

250 rds of 9mm subsonic

200 rds of Vintage CCI Stinger

200 rds of .30 Carbine

1000 rds of .22 Magnum

550 rds of Vintage Magtech .38 special wad cutter

A good start of the year for my ammo stash