No idea what they're worth, but I can tell you the local gun store is asking $30 for a 50-round package of new 30 carbine ammo. Sent me straight to Midway to order lead so I could load my own.
At those prices, I guess that's $480 worth of ammo, but then again someone might pay that much or more, just to have a full can of the stuff in original military packaging. I can remember a time when 50-round cartons of that ball ammo went for 5 or 6 bucks, so it wouldn't have been worth much, back then. Times sure have changed.
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The brass cased commercial stuff goes anywhere from about $25-$50 for 50rnds, so?, the military stuff is as good or better?
I got 1200+rnds of LC ball with my 30 carbine and figured it was worth $1K+
depending on manufacture date and whether its corrosove or not, Im sure you canfind something out there on the interwebs that is close to what you have in value to give you an idea.
Up here, new manufacture brass cased .30 carbine runs $36.00 for a box of 50.
When the M1 carbine was developed, the officer writing the specs for the ammunition decided to make it non-corrosive, so government ammo has been that way from the beginning. Commercial ammunition for the caliber has also always been non-corrosive.
Foreign made? You'd have to read the fine print ... and have a little faith, depending on the source. There was some counterfeit '06 ammo ( I think it was '06 ... memory is a little vague ) on the market last year that was indistinguishable from Lake City Arsenal manufacture, headstamp and all, until it was fired. Even the box looked like genuine military issue. If you checked a spent case, though, it was berdan primed. That stuff was corrosive. We saw some of it on my home range. I've rambled a bit, but my point is: be careful.
At the LGS tonight they had what looked like LC ball on stripper clips in packs of 50rnds for $25
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