Lapua .30 Luger ammunition

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Originally Posted by rhuff

Do you remember the "vintage" of the first batch of ammo? Mine is '55.......a FINE year!! The boxes that I received were intact, but obviously aged. The seals are also browned and quite fragile. The ammo appears to be just fine with a bit of tarnish to the brass as one would expect....no corrosion present.

Richard,

Here are the pics of the boxes that I had promised. Both styles of box are opened by pulling up on the flap that hangs out. This tears the seal on both sides of the "lid", allowing access to the rounds after the secondary flap(s) are flipped open.

The box with the brown seal, from '56, I think, presents an outer flap that is as long as the side of the box is high. There is one opposing inner flap that is the same dimensions as the box top. No flaps are tapered, and the hinge of the opposing secondary flap prevents the top flap's being tucked in afterward to re-close the box.

The later-produced has a much better system for closing the lid back down on the remaining rounds. The pull-flap is shorter and tapered on its sides, as you can see. Instead of a single, full-size, opposing secondary flap, it has two tapered half-flaps that fold back down and permit the former pull-flap to be tucked down inside the box. Much better! These are from '78, so they learned a bit in twenty years...