7.62x39 shortage?

Hitzy said:
I don't think I would ever pay a premium for NC x39 ammo. If poor, uneducated, half starved warlord crews in Africa can clean and maintain their firearms with corrosive ammo I think I can handle it....lol.
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Fortunately most of us on CGN are not poor, (perhaps) uneducated and half- starved and can afford to pay the premium. Its the same reason I don't live in a hut made of mud and my crap.
 
Hitzy said:
I don't think I would ever pay a premium for NC x39 ammo. If poor, uneducated, half starved warlord crews in Africa can clean and maintain their firearms with corrosive ammo I think I can handle it....lol.
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Hitzy, if you've ever been up close and personal to the rifles you mention in Africa, you would change your comparison in a hurry. Well trained and disciplined troopies are a completely different group though and that is more what you should be comparing the plebes here to. Mind you, there are some people that just can't be bothered with the extra chores that are associated with corrosive ammo.

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you that corrosive ammo is fine if the shooter is willing to follow through properly and diligently.
 
bearhunter said:
Hitzy, if you've ever been up close and personal to the rifles you mention in Africa, you would change your comparison in a hurry. Well trained and disciplined troopies are a completely different group though and that is more what you should be comparing the plebes here to. Mind you, there are some people that just can't be bothered with the extra chores that are associated with corrosive ammo.

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you that corrosive ammo is fine if the shooter is willing to follow through properly and diligently.
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I guess it's just my own OCD or pride, dunno sometimes, but I clean/oil/lube every rifle/pistol/shotgun as soon as I get home from a hunt or a shoot. So corrosive, non-corrosive, makes no difference to me, they all get cleaned same day they get shot.
Same for my mechanic/carpentry tools, they get used, cleaned put away. Something my grandfather use to do because they couldn't afford to replace things, so everything got well used, but kept up looking like new. I still have lots of his tools that are 60-70 years old and they still look pretty nice...
I don't put things off because I'm lazy or privileged, something needs doing it gets done lol.
 
In a busy schedule with a full time job and family I find it hard sometimes to squeeze in a cleaning session right after I just squeezed in a shooting session. Often I'm at the range for every last min of free time then back to life until bedtime where I typically say, "oh yeah, I gotta get some boiling water down that barrel tonight and plan to clean it tomorrow." If I know ahead of time it'll be hard to get a cleaning in within 24 hr of shooting I'll just take my non-corrosive with me and pay the extra.

For me the job that needs to get done is parenting. We all have different priorities in life. ;)
 
I've pretty much abandoned corrosive ammo, in part because I don't clean after every use, but also because I've run into too hard primers in handguns.

I handload the 7.62X39 that goes through bolt guns, and use non-corrosive in the SKS.
 
MuthaFunk said:
In a busy schedule with a full time job and family I find it hard sometimes to squeeze in a cleaning session right after I just squeezed in a shooting session. Often I'm at the range for every last min of free time then back to life until bedtime where I typically say, "oh yeah, I gotta get some boiling water down that barrel tonight and plan to clean it tomorrow." If I know ahead of time it'll be hard to get a cleaning in within 24 hr of shooting I'll just take my non-corrosive with me and pay the extra.

For me the job that needs to get done is parenting. We all have different priorities in life. ;)
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Kids.... that's just free labor to clean your guns lol.
Here is something that will deal with corrosive primers, cut your cleaning time down to 5 minutes.
http://www.topduckproducts.com
Gunzilla effectively removes carbon, copper, lead, rust, black powder, and plastic particles left from shotgun sabots/wads. Most cleaners soften carbon but it still must be scraped or scrubbed off a gun. Gunzillaā€™s unique formula breaks the bonds of the carbon molecules and turns them into a sludge-like liquid. It also neutralizes and cleans the residue left by corrosive primers. In black powder guns Gunzilla eliminates using water to clean and oil to lubricate. Just clean the black powder gun with Gunzilla and then you are done.
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Hitzy said:
Can-Am says $250-$350 per 1000 when it lands sometime this year.
$300/1440 or 1500 for corrosive.... I'll take 50% more ammo for the same price Alex.
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Just going off Cabelas prices, (they have a sale right now, but I'm going off usual prices) it's $350/1500. That's $0.23 a shot. If the CanAm stuff is $250/1000 (it'll probably be more this time around) that's $0.25 a shot.

I don't care about 2 cents.
 
p.Rundle said:
Just going off Cabelas prices, (they have a sale right now, but I'm going off usual prices) it's $350/1500. That's $0.23 a shot. If the CanAm stuff is $250/1000 (it'll probably be more this time around) that's $0.25 a shot.

I don't care about 2 cents.
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Dayum, 7.62x39 really has gone up! Last batch I bought cost me .15 a round (Corrosive).

Looks like its gone up about $100 a crate. Maybe it's a good thing my SKS hasn't been out in awhile.
 
p.Rundle said:
Just going off Cabelas prices, (they have a sale right now, but I'm going off usual prices) it's $350/1500. That's $0.23 a shot. If the CanAm stuff is $250/1000 (it'll probably be more this time around) that's $0.25 a shot.

I don't care about 2 cents.
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Are you really expected it to be $250/1,000?
 
I bought the can am sks/non corrosive deal last year or year before, was $399 for rifle and 1000 rnds. Ahhh those were the days! Way back then!
 
We were expecting the mother of all storms on Vancouver Island over the weekend. Didn't happen. I texted my brother on Friday and told him we were good for food, water, firewood and the excess stuff.

Two hours later he asked if I was ready for the zombies as well....
 
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