7.62x39 surplus ammo

lejarretnoir said:
Those mild steel jackets are softer than copper according to some hardness tests I read somewhere.
In any case, I have a test rifle I made up and I'm on my 4th case of corrosive surplus and the barrel is still as shiny and pristine as the day I chambered it. Still shooting 2 MOA or under with cheap surplus.

As for accuracy check out the thread by Ganderite in the stickies.
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Really? That's good to know, now I can buy with impunity hahaha.
 
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I get asked all the time "will bi-metal bullets harm my bore". The answer is no, they won't. Here's why.
Hardened tool steel has a rockwell hardness of 650/700 Brinell. Mild steel has a hardness of 120/130. Bi-metal jackets are made from very soft mild steel. Bores/barrels are at least as hard as tool steel and when chrome plated are even harder.
Steel jacketed bullets are nothing new. The US had steel jacketed bullets in WWII chambered in 30-06 and 45 ACP. The M1 ball and M2 AP rounds of the era used steel jackets over a lead core with a copper wash over the steel -- just like Wolf bi-metal bullets.
Frankford Arsenal conducted a test with steel jacketed 30-06 rounds around 1946 to determine if the rumors that steel jacketed bullets damaged the barrels more than copper jacketed bullets were true. In their testing they found that steel jacketed bullets not only didn't accelerate wear but they also discovered for the first 1000 rounds steel jacketed rounds were actually more accurate! After 1000 rounds the accuracy leveled off to be comparable to the copper jacketed bullets but no evidence of accelerated wear was discovered through 8,000 rounds of testing on their samples.
In short, bi-metal bullets do not do any more damage to your firearms than conventional copper jacketed rounds do. All the claims of chamber wear, throat erosion and barrel wear are unsubstantiated wives tales.
 
One-Shot said:
What the heck ... Me too - Another vote for BudgetShooterSupply and the Czech surplus ammo on stripper clips.
Can't beat $225/crate shipping included. And Henry is a great guy to deal with, always very responsive to my questions.
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Henry is a great guy to do business with.
I do know another place where you can get surplus ammo crates for even lower price though, if you are in Southern Ontario.
 
Lanis,

I'm in Southern Ontario, as are many people on this board. Let us know the name (website link if possible) and location of the place.
Thanks.


lanis said:
Henry is a great guy to do business with.
I do know another place where you can get surplus ammo crates for even lower price though, if you are in Southern Ontario.
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Have had zero problems with my Ukrainian surplus ammo from P & D Enterprises in Edmonton, it came in two spam cans, in one heavy duty crate. Clean you gun the same day and you should have no issues.
 
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lanis said:
PM for details, please.
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Guido, has an old Lincoln Continental on the corner of Easy Street and Gotitmade Blvd. near North York, she's sittin on the back axle!! Just tap the window twice and wait, rear darkened window will open, pass him $200 and the trunk will open, take your crate and don't look back, don't ask questions! ;0)
 
That is correct.

I got Russian surplus ammo, and as I said- at lower price.

No stripper clips for girls that like to play with those. ;)
 
lanis said:
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No stripper clips for girls that like to play with those. ;)
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So the selling point here is that if we want to be men, we should buy your ammo because they don't come on stripper clips?
Then, by that reasoning, only girls use stripper clips to load their rifles?
All the armies who issue stripper clips are a bunch of girls?
In the heat of battle, if you reload your SKS one bullet at a time, you're a man. But if you use a stripper clip to load 10 rounds in the same amount of time (or less), then you're a girl?
Hmmm... Interesting logic.
 
No you're missing the point....real men do the mag conversion so you can use AK mags. :)

One-Shot said:
So the selling point here is that if we want to be men, we should buy your ammo because they don't come on stripper clips?
Then, by that reasoning, only girls use stripper clips to load their rifles?
All the armies who issue stripper clips are a bunch of girls?
In the heat of battle, if you reload your SKS one bullet at a time, you're a man. But if you use a stripper clip to load 10 rounds in the same amount of time (or less), then you're a girl?
Hmmm... Interesting logic.
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Speaking of 'surp ammo-- whatever happened to the Norinco 7.62x39 ammo? We used to have heaps of it over here in NZ. Now we have the Barnaul, Tul and Hungarian surplus. I got a couple of boxes of Tul hollow points, hopefully they work allright. So far the Hornady SST's have been working great, slightly more expensive than the Tul however. I miss the Chicom surp ammo....
 
One-Shot said:
So the selling point here is that if we want to be men, we should buy your ammo because they don't come on stripper clips?
Then, by that reasoning, only girls use stripper clips to load their rifles?
All the armies who issue stripper clips are a bunch of girls?
In the heat of battle, if you reload your SKS one bullet at a time, you're a man. But if you use a stripper clip to load 10 rounds in the same amount of time (or less), then you're a girl?
Hmmm... Interesting logic.
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Real man only needs one bullet. The rest is for entertainment.
 
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