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A few years ago one of my co-workers mentioned his grandfather was selling many of his guns. Since I like military arms I purchased a very good condition Remington Rand .45 pistol made in 1943.

A few years later I purchased a sealed can of WWII .45 ACP ammunition at a local gun show. It was packed in 1943 or 1944.

Last year I took the pistol and ammunition to our family's 4th-of-July gathering in Oklahoma. Since some of my relatives like war history and military guns, I told them shooting a WWII-era pistol and ammunition would have a special meaning on this date. (My 86-year-old dad was there, and he is a disabled WWII Navy veteran who was on his way to invading Japan when the atomic bombs were dropped.)

We each took our turn shooting a clip or two of ammunition and felt a connection to those American men and their weapons that performed to admirably many years ago in faraway places.

One of my relatives is a police captain and SWAT team instructor for a Tulsa suburb. He loaded up a clip of the old WWII ammo and hit a 100-yard metal gong three out of seven shots offhand. It proved to all of us that a military-issue 1911 firing 70-year-old ball ammunition could be very accurate and deadly in the hands of a trained and deliberate pistol shooter.

I've had one Remington Rand 1911. It was a Navy issue gun. The last time I fired it ,it emptied the clip. It would double every now and then but when it went full-pucker and emptied the clip,I traded it for who knows what.
I shot abunch of plate matches with it and I shot it a lot. It was very broken in when I got it and was wore plum out when I got rid of it.
It was a great old gun that I should have kept.

Mike, a lot of the military ammo had corrosive primers. I'd be sure to clean the barrel extra well just in case.

Was the ammo head stamped EC-43? Or maybe 44? Steel Cases? Just curious. That Evansville Chryster stuff just won't disappear! We still have people bring that stuff in every few months!!!!

a number of years ago when a lot of that WWII surplus .45acp stuff started appearing, I bought a unopened spam can of it for one reason, it was winchester ball. But that isn't why i bought it, the can had stenciled on it "not usable for food consumption."
i thought it was a nice touch.

That's an easy fix, too bad you got rid of it.