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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.
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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.
---------------------------------------- I'm a big fan of the courtesy flush.
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Mike, a lot of the military ammo had corrosive primers. I'd be sure to clean the barrel extra well just in case.
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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!!!!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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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.
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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. That's an easy fix, too bad you got rid of it.
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