7.62x39 surplus all gone?

VanMan said:
this was a test a ran back in 2019. Number 1 & 3 were Czech surplus, 2 was the "semi" corrosive from Lever, 4 was Norinco silver box I got from Canada Ammo. I think this pic was after 1 week. Rust just starting to develop under the nail head of the semi corrosive

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are you sure 1 and 3 are corrosive, I've never seen brown lacquer Czech, and it usually is always a bxn headstamp
 
Craig0ry said:
are you sure 1 and 3 are corrosive, I've never seen brown lacquer Czech, and it usually is always a bxn headstamp
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# 1 & 3 were definitely corrosive. One of our RO's brought it in for our test. I thought he said it was Czech, but I may not have remembered correctly. It was on stripper clips. The "semi" corrosive stuff from Lever was in spam cans in paper wrapped bundles of 25 I think it was
 
Bought my first SKS in Late 2025, purchased a second SKS just before Christmas. Purchased three crates of Chinese ammo from the LGS and then another 3 crates of non corrosive Chinese and corrosive Romanian from a poster on this site. All in all average price per round is $.22/round. As someone here earlier said, “buy cheap, stack deep”, I go through about 220-250 rounds each range visit and always clean my gun thoroughly after each day, better safe than sorry.
 
VanMan said:
We have used various cleaning CLP's over the years, and currently using Slip2000 Carbon Killer. It's really good for cleaning the fouling out of barrels and actions.

With the amount of rounds we go through, we eventually break everything. The SKS is probably one of our most reliable semi-autos. We get ~15k rounds through it before we wear out a barrel. Our range is only 15m deep though, so we only do that when we see the rounds start to keyhole.
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What do you do once you've worn out the barrel? I hear they're hard as hell to replace barrels on, so do you just strip them for parts?
 
SigWig said:
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every 3? eeek

What oil, lube? fluid film?

How many rounds in your highest round count gun? Any breakage?
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Balistol is amazing for corrosive ammo...and black powder. Mix up some "moose milk" with it and you are set. Boiling water is also very affective, then just oil afterwards.
 
I was taking stock of what 39 I have left and got to thinking about replacing some non corrosive as I deplete it. How does the Ruag from Tenda shoot?
 
Ruag is the best you can get...


Csc used to be the importer until a bigger fish took it. Too bad because they brought in special flavours of the stuff.
 
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