inspecting these would have done no good unless you totally break the pallets down which they will not let you do ,you can not arrive at a total count without doing this the bad thing about this we bought 2473 fifty cal cans in June of 2013 and were short 735 cans took 84 days for them to settle our claim they gave us a credit of 2737.00 toward out next buy they will not give you a cash refund like i mentioned i have been in the surplus business 30 years check out nick scavo experience at cherry point I was also in the core myself Vietnam 67-68 the base commander is not happy with the feed back they are receiving other Gl sites are fine i buy mostly out of fort Bragg although there can lots have the lids on the quantity is more than i can afford up to 55,000 to buy a lot of 9800 30 cal cans