I bought this ammo brick ten years ago

[John Sabato]

I think this is a "combat" pack of 7x57 mauser tightly packed. The fact that the box looks as wide as it is tall seems to eliminate pistol ammunition. The ammo is probably packed with every other round being head/bullet/head/bullet up... maybe 5 rows of 20...

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by John Sabato

I think this is a "combat" pack of 7x57 mauser tightly packed. The fact that the box looks as wide as it is tall seems to eliminate pistol ammunition. The ammo is probably packed with every other round being head/bullet/head/bullet up... maybe 5 rows of 20...

I would second that...And add that from the lack of advertising, contents, ingredients, etc, it is probably from a military contract...

I posted pics from another forum some time ago, ammunition that looked good on the outside of the cartridge but which had become so moisture contaminated inside that the brass had changed color [green, corrosion] and begun to disintegrate...Definitely unsafe to shoot...

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=30713

[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

I would second that...And add that from the lack of advertising, contents, ingredients, etc, it is probably from a military contract...

I posted pics from another forum some time ago, ammunition that looked good on the outside of the cartridge but which had become so moisture contaminated inside that the brass had changed color [green, corrosion] and begun to disintegrate...Definitely unsafe to shoot...

I would tend to think that ammunition that was manufactured by FN, in Belgium, to military standards, would probably be still safe to shoot... strictly IMHO. The problem is that the ammo is old enough, that it probably has corrosive primers... so I wouldn't shoot it in anything that I wasn't able to thoroughly clean afterward, and in short order.