Winchester Super Speed .22LR age

[ovenpaa]

I was given some boxes of this stuff a while ago and took it to the range Friday to see how it performed at 50 yards. Accuracy wise it was OK, it was certainly not as tight in the chamber as some ammunition I have shot, it all went bang and is definitely super sonic judging by the crack when shot.

My question is does anyone have a view on the age of the ammunition please? The image is from the internet however my boxes are identical.

[ovenpaa]

Update, found it! The ammunition looks to be from 1938 so just over 80 years old. I think it was quite fitting to shoot it in my BSA Model 12.

[glevum]

How many boxes do you have left?

http://petesvintagegunsandammo.com/winc ... ssue-ammo/

[1066]

I have a box of similar vintage, these are ICI.

[FredB]

Take the "non-rusting" with a pinch of salt.
Fred

[ovenpaa]

How many boxes do you have left?

http://petesvintagegunsandammo.com/winc ... ssue-ammo/

Wow, I have an unopened brick of 500 plus some loose boxes. Somehow I doubt they are worth much more than the ammunition inside the boxes here in the UK, so I will probably shoot them off and save the boxes for anyone who collects such things. Actually, I have a few old boxes already so I could use them for swaps.

The shooting equivalent to stamp collecting maybe :)

[shellshokt]

Just been given these, loft find from an old gamekeeper. Two unopened 10 round packets and about 50 loose rounds in the metal box.

[FredB]

The 100 round ex-military stuff was our standard pistol fodder for many years. I lived in Lancashire at the time and we used to travel over the pennines to John Longstaffs shop in Pudsey to stock up on powders and primers and we always bought one of the wooden crates of ex-military .22s. I still have one of the crates in the garage, full of odds and ends.
Fred

[dodgyrog]

Just been given these, loft find from an old gamekeeper. Two unopened 10 round packets and about 50 loose rounds in the metal box.

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You'll be lucky if they go bang. I've had some of those in the past!