1940’s Kynoch and Slovakian 7x57 ammo

[Milan]

Both 173 grain SP. Should I shoot it or do collectors value this stuff?
The Kynoch is Canadian import made 16 Jan 1940 and the Slovak ammo is Jul 1944.

 

[Sarg]

I collect cartridges & Kynoch packets, they have no great value & that packet is border line but still would be nice in some ones collection, some like full packets like I used to but over time the cartridges damage the packets or have potential to so, now I'm fine with empty's & with more advancing fire arms laws it will get harder to display full packets any way.

Be aware there may well be a click percentage per packet, on mine if that happens I pull them & transfer into new primed case & shoot any way !

It is surprising how cheaply some of this old ammo can be bought for from a collector meeting if not highly sort after or rare, saying that I have been after a nice Kynoch packet for two members here, one .303 Brit - 9.5X57 & I'm having a hard time, may have to pass one or more of my own packets off !

 

[Milan]

Thank you for tour reply. I also have Kynoch 9x57 but was going to let that go with a 1926 Oberndorf Mauser. Never heard of 9.5x57….the 7x57 packets only have 8 rounds each. I guess cartridge collectors raided the boxes.

 

[Sarg]

The 9.5x57 Mannlicher Schoenauer = 9.5x56 MS = .375 Rimless Nitro 2 1/4in any one of those packets which are the same cartridge.

Funny hard to find Kynoch .303 Brit here & there was - is thousands of them but .405win .35 Win & 9x57 by the 10s & just about never see a rifle ?

 

[F. Vaccaro]

Both 173 grain SP. Should I shoot it or do collectors value this stuff?
The Kynoch is Canadian import made 16 Jan 1940 and the Slovak ammo is Jul 1944.

The Kynoch packet appears to have 139 grains written on it. Could they be reloads?

 

[Milan]

Not reloads. Bullets look like all the long173/175 gr sp round nose bullets.

 

[Josh P]

I enjoy having a few Kynoch boxes on the bookshelves. If I see a deal on them, even if I don’t have a rifle in the given caliber, I try to pick them up.

The only old ammunition I actually *want* to shoot, is some old 303 loaded with danger spaghetti. I’d like to know the smell so when it’s referenced in the older hunting journals I don’t have to guess what they’re describing.

 

[F. Vaccaro]

Great, nice find.

 

[Flbt]

I enjoy having a few Kynoch boxes on the bookshelves. If I see a deal on them, even if I don’t have a rifle in the given caliber, I try to pick them up.

The only old ammunition I actually *want* to shoot, is some old 303 loaded with danger spaghetti. I’d like to know the smell so when it’s referenced in the older hunting journals I don’t have to guess what they’re describing.

My son in law had some cordet loads for the 303 his grandpa left him a savage 303
They did not go off. He pulled a few cartridge apart the cordiet would not really burn
He got a few spegety pices to spit and spark like a firework fuse