[gem]

...forgot to add in my earlier thread that Sportmans Guide also has .50 cal WWII ammo cans...3 for $21.97.

No, I'm not affiliated with this Company...I just buy a lot of stuff there and like to share interesting finds with other Forum members.

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=445860

 

[southbysouthwest]

...forgot to add in my earlier thread that Sportmans Guide also has .50 cal WWII ammo cans...3 for $21.97....

FYI, Widener's sells them for less than 1/2 that price.

 

[gem]

thanks....that's good to know, since I was about to buy some of these from SG....looks like 'posting' has paid off for me and saved me some money

 

[bigbird1]

FYI, Widener's sells them for less than 1/2 that price.[/QUOTe

they sell one for more than the price of 3 , how is that cheaper?

 

[southbysouthwest]

they sell one for more than the price of 3 , how is that cheaper?

I'm not sure what you are looking at, but Widener's sells 1 can for $4.50 or 9 cans for $27 ($3 each).

 

[mrbieler]

Those are modern cans. The OP was for WII style cans.

 

[bigbird1]

I'm not sure what you are looking at, but Widener's sells 1 can for $4.50 or 9 cans for $27 ($3 each).

Your right, I found it, I understood the add to be one for 27.00 , but after rereading it it looks to be 9 side latch cans for the 27.00 , may have to order a pack, thanks


http://www.wideners.com/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=6953&dir=

 

[mrbieler]

The Widener's ad is screwy. I thought it was one can and 9 desiccant packets per can.

 

[gem]

Wideners site sure is difficult to navigate....it took me some digging to find the boxes that southbysouthwest was referring to. I have been buying reloading stuff (powder, bullets, brass) from Wideners for many years and never knew they had some of the stuff that you can find if you dig around on their site.

Thanks again to southbysouthwest for pointing this 'buy' out....

 

[Bossman]

Am going to order some of those..

Now does anybody know of a source for WW2 .30 cans ?

thanks

Bossman

 

[southbysouthwest]

Wideners site sure is difficult to navigate....it took me some digging to find the boxes....

I first bought these over a year ago. Widener's at that time got the last of the Talon stock of these boxes and they have been selling them ever since.

 

[COPE]

south, in your experience, what condition are the gaskets in? Am I correct in assuming these cans have the older red mason jar type rubber?

 

[mrbieler]

The ones I just got from Wideners all have black rubber gaskets. The interior of all 9 were in good condition. Clean and rust free. The exterior of them was a mixed bag. Some good. Some fair. All usable.

 

[Rory]

i got 18 of them the outsides could seriously use some refinishing. but i don't care. i get 160 rounds of 50 in each one.

 

[svt40]

How much did the total come out to? The price went from 15$ for 9 to 43$ after shipping.

 

[mrbieler]

For me, it came to $8/can delivered.

 

[skytroop232]

About a year ago, there were 2 lots of WWII .50 cal ammo cans on Govt Liquidation at the Lexington Army Depot. Each lot had over 6000 cans in each lot.
They sold for about .30 each.
I tried to find out who bought them, no luck.
I was wondering when they were going to hit the market, hopefully they didn't go to the scrapyard.

 

[me26245]

ammo cans

I've bought several from here.

http://www.wideners.com/

 

[Armorer]

Now does anybody know of a source for WW2 .30 cans ?

thanks

Bossman

I saw an ad a while ago for the .30 cal WWII boxes, from a dealer but now I can't find the ad. They were very expensive as I recall, over $30.00 each. It seems that the WWII .50 cal boxes (M2) were in use much longer than the WWII .30 cal type. Technical manuals in the 1980's still mentions or at least showed pictures of the the M2 even though the post war model .50 cal box (M2A1) had been around for over 30 years. The .30 cal WWII boxes (M1 and M1A1) disapeared from the tech manuals in the late 50's and early 60s the M1A1 still being mentioned in 1956 (TM 9-1900). By 1961 they were both gone from the Tech manuals replaced by the .30 Cal box, M19A1 which is still standard for 7.62mm ammo. I remember seeing the M1/M1A1 boxes in surplus stores in the early 60's. They sold for about $1.00 back then. This probably accounts for why they are a bit hard to find now days.

A local surplus dealer has been selling the M2 .50 cal boxes for 40 years. At one time they had 4000 of them They range in condidtion from good to rusted right thru. With about one in 8 being worth repainting. The paperwrok inside one of them indicates they were sold as surplus in 1964. They get about $4.00 each for them.