Greek 30.06 surplus?

Yes, I got a few thousand rounds of that from the CMP a couple of years ago. Not pretty, not particularly good for much other than it's original purpose and target practice, but it works. Had zero issues with it.

 

I've had a nice quantity of it. It was made for the M1 Garand and is perfect for those rifles.

It's a bit smokey and some has low flash suppression so there may be some fireballs for your enjoyment.

Flash

 

If it is HXP, it should be good to go. Allegedly loaded to M-1 Garand specs on U.S. supplied machines.

Personally, I flood the bore with Windex whenever I shoot surplus ammo (just in case the primers are corrosive).

My stash of Greek M-1 ammo is safe until I exhaust the supply of Danish and Korean surplus still on-hand..

 

Where do you get it?

 

Greek HXP is Garand safe ball ammo. It is not the most accurate, like most M-2 ball. It is service grade ammo for service grade rifles. The best part is that it is reloadable and non-corrosive.

 

From the CMP online store or sometimes ammogarand.com has some.

 

Be wary of the M2 Ball sold on the internet. I ordered a 300 round can of Korean surplus packed loose in an ammo can.

The batch had different head stamps (dates), and about 80% had been de-linked from ammo belts intended for machine guns.

After sorting through the batch, I found five different head stamps. Pulled the bullets from each lot: Some had ball powder, and others had stick powder. Even found different powders in the same head stamps of the same year. (Rifle vs. MG ammo).

I condemned all 300 rounds, dumped the powder, popped the primers, and will re-load the cases with fresh powder and primers suitable for the M-1 Garand.

The good news: It will be far cheaper to rehab this batch of ammo than to buy new ammo, and it surely will not be corrosive.