Evansville Ordnance 30 Carbine

Found this for $25 a box for 50 rounds. I cant find very much info on this, but what I have found is that its from WW2 and is brass cased. The purple primers are throwing me off. I guess my question is, is it good to shoot, and I dont think its corrosive as i have read that all usgi 30 carbine used non-corrosive primers. They look to be in good shape. Im sure some of you will say not to shoot it as it looks to be collectible, but I plan on not shooting it until I run out of what I have in bandoliers (if i can even ever shoot that much). finding usgi ammo for 0.50 cents a round seems like a good opportunity Open to your thoughts. 

I have some steel cased Evansville ammo that also have purple primers, may have just been the color they used. Yes you could probably shoot it, one of the characteristics from the Ordnance Department during the development of the 30 carbine cartridge was that it was required to have a noncorrosive primer. I personally would not shoot it due to collectability. If you need shooting ammo work a trade where you get more ammo in return. I will gladly give you $26 a box for it.

I would imagine your QHMC would shoot fine with a brand of commercial ammo that has a more milspec bullet profile than that Armscor has. Besides there is lot's of Korean surplus out there that someone would gladly trade for the Evansville.

I am not sure. I will have to research. Still learning terminology 

That ammo is dated 1944, hence the 4 on the base. Toward the end of the war ammo was dated using only the last digit of the year of manufacture. BTW, before declaring it to be brass case ammo, try using a magnet on it. AFAIK, Evansville only produced steel case ammo. Some of it does have a brassy color to it.

I reckon I need to get me a copy of WBIII. 

Boxes like the OP shows are on display at the Evansville Wartime Museum. OP, please don't shoot the ones you own, as they are rare and very collectible. Sell them to those that will preserve them.

I would be willing to consider a trade a box for some Lake city or Korean surplus I could shoot . I’m gonna keep a couple boxes for my self to display however