has anyone tried that 147 grain soviet ball in thier svt 40'S

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hey guy i was just wondering, i ordered a crate of the ball ammo from frontier firearms and i was just wondering how it shoots in your svt 40's. my chamber is kinda rough in mine but it shoots the privi ammo 180 grain soft points well. i just wondering how the old soviet steel cased stuff shoots before i let my friends son shoot it this weekend. thanks!
 
I shot 1400rds of 147gr surplus Russian ammo several years ago through a SVT40. Worked fine. I would think this current batch would have the same good results/reliability. I was even thinking of picking up one of the current 880rd packs just for the SVT40.
54r ammo reference page: http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinAmmoID01.htm
 
Is the ammo the same as this?
http://w w w.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=A76254R&name=Russian+7.62x54R+147grn+FMJ+440rd+Can&groupid=40
 
Since the CDN dollar is nearly on par, I wonder why our price is so high for this? At $80 (or even $100) I would be stocking up.
 
I've got a couple crates of it. It works better in the Mosin than the Czech stuff, but I won't fire up the SVT until later this weekend to know how it works for sure. Is this stuff Corrosive? does anyone know?
 
Just to clarify - yes the newly arrived 147gr Soviet light ball is corrosive. I have shot appox 200 rounds of it through my SVT and I am very pleased. 0 FTF/FTE etc... accuracy seems better then the Czech stuff in my SVT. The ammo seems much hotter aswell.
 
Deltasilver said:
One of our vendors responded to a similar comment a while back. Buying surplus ammo by the container-full isn't cheap. When it goes to the states it's so much easier to move and they buy way more than we do.

Still sucks tho.:(
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im looking into the cost of importing about 1000 cases of 7.62 x54r. i plan on cutting out the middle man. i have the money but i still have to learn how to import that much ammo. i dont think the cost of ammo has to do with the volume of ammo in the country. i was talking to a canadian importer in montreal about ammo and they were the ones telling me about the vast amounts of ammo imported into canada. i know a broker also who is willing to do this for free ( its nice to have friends ). the idea is to find out how much it would cost to import bulk ammo into the country, i know the profit in the arms business is ammo. now i just want to find out how much profit.
 
'good luck ...........if it happens keep me in mind in only 2.5 hours north of freddy town and can always use mosin nagant/ svt 40 ammo............


angrysoldier said:
im looking into the cost of importing about 1000 cases of 7.62 x54r. i plan on cutting out the middle man. i have the money but i still have to learn how to import that much ammo. i dont think the cost of ammo has to do with the volume of ammo in the country. i was talking to a canadian importer in montreal about ammo and they were the ones telling me about the vast amounts of ammo imported into canada. i know a broker also who is willing to do this for free ( its nice to have friends ). the idea is to find out how much it would cost to import bulk ammo into the country, i know the profit in the arms business is ammo. now i just want to find out how much profit.
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Deltasilver, your banker would pat you on the back for making such a sound investment.
Ammunition has been on the top of their list for the last 10 years. It really is a great investment if you are getting it cheap enough. Ask Can Am. Most of the ammunition he buys goes to the US, for the reasons stated above, there are more people willing to buy it in large quantities.

Canadians, being cheap bastards, shuffle their feet, scratch their asses and procrastinate for a year before they buy a box of 20 to try out before they put out the big bucks for a crate. That's why surplus ammunition isn't readily available at discount prices in Canada. Then of course, we have that insidious bureaucracy called NRCAN that insists on having complete documentation on all components used in the manufacture of the ammunition.

I'm very surprised some enterprising Russian hasn't forged a bunch of documentation on the ammunition they release. It would solve so many problems in Canada. What the hell is wrong with the Russian Mafia that they have missed such an opportunity?

It would be impossible for NRCAN to follow up on such documentation, sort of like trying to trace back a Pakistani truck drivers certificate of operators qualifications.
 
Sure, first we need to find away around the 300k I lost when everything went tits up in '07. Then we can talk container ships of ammo.

I like your idea about the forged documentation. If they can counterfeit money and aircraft parts, Russian papers should be a breeze...

I'll refrain from commenting about the aforementioned truck driver's qualifications.
 
DS, that wasn't intended to be a racial slur. Not even a tiny bit of one.

At the extinct glass plant where I used to pass my time, there was a time when qualification papers such as driver's licenses and trade papers were accepted if you could pass the provincial tests. The seekers of the qualifications would produce forged papers from a company in the "OLD COUNTRY." Seeing as it was impossible to check these papers authenticity and being petrified of the "racist charge" the papers were pretty much accepted as evidence of apprenticeship or qualification and they were allowed to write the tests. There were lots of spin off scams there as well.

The term "Pakistani Driver's License" became an umbrella term for these scams. Problably because of the huge influx of Pakistani emigrants into the country at the time.

To show how this came about, there was a prominent truck company in BC that had a Pakistani name. Quite a few of their trucks used to come into the plant to pick up bottles. We only had four accidents with trucks on our truck park way. All three were with their trucks and drivers that couldn't speak a word of english. There were 4 other accidents that occurred within 5 kliks of the plant as well, guess whoes trucks and guess how many of the drivers could speak english.

You're right though it was racial profiling but it caught on and the term was used to cover everything fishy in the area for a long time.

Here's the good part. That same trucking company hauled thousands of loads of bottles out of that plant over the years. Those were the only accidents we heard of. The company started to screen their drivers much more closely after that rash of accidents.
 
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