Brian's (Military) Surplus . . .

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Prof Young

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Was headed back to IL from IN earlier today. Stopped in at "Down By the Tracks" gun store in Galveston IN to look for reloading stuff. While there a guy told me about Brian's Surplus in Greentown IN. It was not much out of my way so I checked it out. Wow. Lots and lots of ammo of all kinds. Lots of reloading power. Lots of other fun stuff. (Was tempted to buy an MRE just to try it out.) And a lotta customers. (no primers save for 50 cal). Prices were were in line with with what you see on most ammo these days. Worth a look if you are in the neighborhood.

Life is good.
Prof Young
 
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doofus47

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Not the best, but when you're out on a mountain side during late elk season, they can make a good bite.
I do love the weird water-powered heaters.
 
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TailGator

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The joke going around after major hurricanes here was that the troops smiled while tossing boxes of MREs into the back of your car because they were glad to be rid of them. But they weren't really that bad, as I recall. When you are tired and hungry enough you can eat anything that isn't snapping back at you.
 
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jonnyc

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I generally liked the Manot Krav combat rations we got in the IDF, but my dog absolutely refused to eat any of the canned meat options. He obviously had a much more discerning palate.
 
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Webleymkv

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Brian's isn't far from me and I stop in often. He buys from a lot of distributors and thus usually has inventory that others locally don't though he sometimes has to pay scalpers prices for inventory which, of course, gets passed on to the consumer. He does very sporadically have primers, but prices will be high (last time was $150/1000).
 
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603Country

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I don’t know about Brian’s, but I can say, regarding foods and speaking from experience, that the C-Rat Beans and Weenies (aka “Beans and Dog ____” are far superior to MRE Beans and Franks.
 
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Paul B.

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Back around late 1963 when I was doing a TDY at Indian Springs AFB I got involved with a project when they loaded wing tanks with supplies like C rations and air dropped then into specific areas. he idea wad to figure out how to drop supplies to troops that were and couldn't be supplie by normal type air drops. Well, the whole thing didn't quite work out as planned and we had about 8 wing tanked that were smashed open with cartons of C-rat scattered all over the area.
Dates on some of the carton were in the late 1930s. :eek: We opened some of the cans and if it smelled OK gave them a try. Full 20 round packs of cigarettes as well but the contents were so dried out the tobacco just fell out of the tube. Big mistake in throwing those away. I wonder what collectors would pay for a pack of Lucky Strikes in the original green packs? Probably the best eating was the roast beef or pork steaks. A couple of the wing tanks had bandoliers of ammo for the M1 Garand. Me and my buddy split that between us to feed our hunting rifles. The surprising thing though was how well that old canned food held up over the years.
Paul B.
 
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oldbear1950

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Went into the US ARMY RESERVES 1968 were still carrying M-1s. transitioned to US COAST GUARD JULY 1968 full time active duty and were still shooting M-1s. Retired from US COAST GUARD, 1989, and were still using M-1s for drill and funerals.
 
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