[jim brady]

I acquired all of mine many years ago, mostly from the CMP, some is LC and a goodly amount the good Greek stuff, when they had it. I also got some of the Korean stuff which I hear is not all that safe to shoot. I opened a spam can or two of it when I first got it and usually just reload them as I shoot it.

The Korean ammo might be junk as it is, but the brass seems pretty good for reloading. I scrounged lots of the KA brass from my old Gun Club range - good thing that I wasn't the one firing it. Years ago the Koreans were selling .30 Carbine ammo. They copied the "LC 52" headstamps, but the brass was crappy. I did buy some of that loaded Carbine ammo, and often the cases split on firing. I've never fired or acquired any of the Greek .30-06 ammo or fired cases.

If I had a quantity of that Greek or Korean ammo, I'd pull them down and reload them with U.S. made powder just for peace of mind. That way you know what you are firing. Who knows what powders the Greeks or Koreans use?. I don't trust it, but that's just me.

 

[TRAP55]

Jim, the KA ammo was the one, even the inside of that empty brass would go green! I don't know what they used for primers, but it made the Berdan primed combloc stuff look clean. The Greek wasn't bad, or the Danish stuff, but I seem to remember there was a lot number of Dane '06, that a random round would bend an op rod.

 

[gdmoody]

I have shot a lot of the Greek ammo and have never had a problem of any kind. I don't have any second thoughts about shooting the Greek stuff. I have shot very little of the Korean because I heard years ago that it was "not the best" there is. I will shoot the Korean stuff in the bolt action rifles but I probably have enough that there will be plenty of the stuff left after I die off.

 

[TRAP55]

Cmp forums had a list of the Korean 06 ammo that I can't find now. KA was corrosive, shot consistant. PS headstamp non corrosive, multiple reports of split cases.

 

[CCHolderinMaine]

By my standards, it's a good start.

By my standards it's a rounding error