Yugo M67 7.62x39 non-corrosive?

05RAV said:
As of today, Bullseye North changed the description of M67 to "corrosive". Three weeks ago I bought a 1120rds case believing their advertisement that it was non-corrosive ammo for shooting it in my bolt-action Ruger Ranch and Howa Mini Action. Description on my ammo case shows production in December 1980. The cartridges look pretty good, brass cased, although they are Berdan primed. So, a bit difficult for re-loading. In the meantime, I've watched several videos on YT and most say that it is quite accurate ammo. The price per cartridge comes to 91 cents/rd with HST. It's still about 50-60 cents less per cartridge than a real non-corrosive brass cased ammo like PPU, PMC Bronze and Sellier&Bellot which is nowadays around $1.50/rd. I guess I'll keep it and see how it shoots.

P.S.1. The whole story is funny. I just talked to their manager. He says that M67 ammo is "non-corrosive" and some new hired person made a mistake by changing the description on the BN website to "corrosive". He mentioned that he made a "nail test" on the ammo and it came out as "non-corrosive". He is going to do more research about that ammo and will get back to me. So, I'll see.

P.S.2. The end of the story. The guy from Customer Service BN called me back and said that the M67 batch which is now on their website is CORROSIVE! They e-mailed me, right away, a return label for UPS so I will return it just to be on a safe side.
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Bastards.

When I emailed them to see what the date of production was they said it varies, and there were no markings on the crates.
 
05RAV - If you're thinking of 'keeping it' for the RR, I'd suggest rather returning it and getting some corrosive Chinese from Tenda for a lot less cost.
 
soulchaser said:
LOL. Changed the description to CORROSIVE, still charging the non-corrosive price.
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Who cares if they are still charging the non-corrosive price . have you ever known someone who bought a car that they said it was only driven to Church on Sundays by and old Lady and it turned out that the odometer was turned back and it was a rental car that was garbage ? yes ? don't buy the stuff . an educated consumer is their worst nightmare. I have had people tell me over the years that they did this and they did that pretending to be a so called expert on the item they were selling and they were as my Father used to say full of Hopscotch . back in the day if I was ever shooting anything that I felt was slightly questionable I would clean the rifle and put it away . buy from somewhere else.
 
Buck1950 said:
05RAV - If you're thinking of 'keeping it' for the RR, I'd suggest rather returning it and getting some corrosive Chinese from Tenda for a lot less cost.
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That's a valid point. On the other hand, I watched some YT videos where they measured velocities of the M67 cartridges from a 16" barrel and the velocities seem to be very consistent with an SD of only 16-19 fps for dozens of shots ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TGtkwZPNks; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amol96ZK3wY&t=86s). I'm rather thinking about using that ammo in my Howa Mini Action which hates steel casings even modern Norinco Red Box.
On top of it, some people in the videos' comments section, mentioned that, in reality, ammo is only mildly corrosive.
 
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soulchaser said:
Bastards.
When I emailed them to see what the date of production was they said it varies, and there were no markings on the crates.
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Actually, there are markings on a crate that show the exact date of production but not too many people know how to decipher them. On my crate there is this: ИК 8012-20 . The two letters in Cyrillic are English "I" and "K". The "I" means the "Igman" name of factory in the former Yugoslavia. The "K" means the town of Konjic which, after the collapse of "Yugoslavia", is now in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The first two digits of the number (80) are the year of production: 1980. The next two digits are the month of production: 12-December. And the last two digits after a hyphen is the batch number (20) produced in this particular month.
 
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Bullseye has always been an above and beyond place in my experiences. That is a #### price for corrosive ammo that can't be reloaded though. If they are a +20% or whatever sort of business that could be a sign of things to come. Up until a couple months ago I had a 1200 round case of NC Norinco on GP and TP that nobody was interested in at $600. It worked out for me as I would prefer to keep it at this point but still.
 
if anyone has a box they want to part with send me a PM, trying to start a little collection of various 7.62x39

so far,
Czech
Russian (few different ones)
Chinese(few different ones)
Romanian
East German
want list is: Polish and Yugo
 
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