Best Red Rifle surplus ammo you have used.

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The last time I bought Red ammo Czech was the standard 7.62x39 out there... now I see Chinese, Russian, Romanian...
What is the best surplus to buy. how do these 4 manufactures stack up to each other?
 
I use MFS for 2 reasons. 1: it is non-corrosive so I don't have to boil water like a sucker and clean out my rifle extra aggressively. 2: it is non-corrosive so I don't have to boil water like a sucker and clean out my rifle extra aggressively.

Also, I found less "duds", and less crazy Ivan flyers that were completely unexplained. I am not saying it is accurate like my precision rifles, but those unexplained 4 inch to one side suckers are a pain. I found it more consistent than the Czech and Russian (50 year old stuff - copper wash). Never did Chinese or Romanian so I can't help you there.
 
I havent had a problem with any surplus, accuracy isnt the greatest with x39 ammo anyways.

Guess Im a sucker who spends an extra 2mins to boil water just to save some extra cash to buy more rounds with the surplus crates tho, ohwell

Where did you get Sako surplus ammo from Stevo?????
 
Chinese has always been excellent for me. Ukrainian has been equally good but is harder to find. Both are fairly clean for surplus and shoot quite well considering what they are and what we pay.

Polish is bad, dirty as hell and not as accurate as other offerings. Romanian is dirtier than Polish but shoots about as good as Chinese.

Never fired Russian or Czech, surprisingly.
 
Got it a few years ago from a guy who imported a bunch personally. Haven't shot much of it, it's too fancy.

To the OP: Czech, Chinese, Romy, it's all the same in any of my x39 guns. Buy whatever you can find and shoot.
 
It takes like 5 min to clean after shooting corrosive ammo, a few squirts of windex( hot water, hot soapy water....etc works to) down the bore followed by a patch x2 to be safe, a few squirts down the gas tube then a patch, a few on the piston then wipe it off and a bit on the bolt face the wipe off ..... All done 5-6 min tops and you paid half as much on the ammo!!!!
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MFS or the norinco non corrosive ammo I great if your just going to shoot 20-30 rounds but ^, I don't know maybe I'm just cheap.
 
I like the old MFS Hungarian Surplus I bought many rounds of in 1994. Lead core, but it does not say NC. I treat it as corrosive just to be safe.
We used to until 6 months ago be able to get Yugo M67 Military with brass casings. But, alas, it is no more. I stocked up on this as it is the best in all of my SKS.
Prices for ammo down here is crazy right now. I see 1120 round crates of M67 selling on GB for $500 to $600 per crate! People are going crazy to buy as much ammo as possible. My favorite online supplier last week got in 200 ea of 1000 round cases of 7.62X39 and sold it all out in three plus hours. .223 is over $1.00 a round now.
People down here are really running scared of the Government now.
 
I like the Chinese copper wash non-corrosive stuff, seems to have less flash than MFS which is important in the 12 inch Vz with brake - the MFS is blinding on an overcast day, like today. The flash must be at least a foot above the barrel and equal on both sides. I'd hate to try shooting it at night. I haven't opened the Russian(?) crate that I have.
 
Caleb314 said:
It takes like 5 min to clean after shooting corrosive ammo, a few squirts of windex( hot water, hot soapy water....etc works to) down the bore followed by a patch x2 to be safe, a few squirts down the gas tube then a patch, a few on the piston then wipe it off and a bit on the bolt face the wipe off ..... All done 5-6 min tops and you paid half as much on the ammo!!!!
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MFS or the norinco non corrosive ammo I great if your just going to shoot 20-30 rounds but ^, I don't know maybe I'm just cheap.
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lol If I can get 1440 rounds of 7.62 x 39 for about $250 and it means I have to just use a bit of hot water to wipe down the surfaces before normal cleaning, you bet your a55 I'm doing it.

It may add a whopping 10 minutes to my average 20 minute clean time for a rifle?

That does not justify the 50-60% increase of price for non corrosive MFS ammunition for this guy.

And yes I am cheap as hell also ;)
 
Old Outlaw said:
I like the old MFS Hungarian Surplus I bought many rounds of in 1994. Lead core, but it does not say NC. I treat it as corrosive just to be safe.
We used to until 6 months ago be able to get Yugo M67 Military with brass casings. But, alas, it is no more. I stocked up on this as it is the best in all of my SKS.
Prices for ammo down here is crazy right now. I see 1120 round crates of M67 selling on GB for $500 to $600 per crate! People are going crazy to buy as much ammo as possible. My favorite online supplier last week got in 200 ea of 1000 round cases of 7.62X39 and sold it all out in three plus hours. .223 is over $1.00 a round now.
People down here are really running scared of the Government now.
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I cant speak for all the Gunnutz here, but our prayers are with you guys.
 
I bought a case of the Romanian surplus ammo at Cabelas and it is fabulous. Seems accurate enough for me (only using iron sights) and after a couple hundred rounds I have yet to have a dud. It's dated 1969... I have no idea if it is true or not, but I read somewhere that corrosive primers found in mil surp ammo tend to keep better. So far so good... $269 for 1320 rounds.
 
Some people are cheap lol. Double the price of cheap is still cheap, that's why I shoot the non-corrosive. It really doesn't take long to clean when shooting corrosive, I was being silly. I just don't bother cleaning the rifle very often is all. Time, is money :p.
 
Its all just as dirty as the next. It all goes boom, and all rifles need to be cleaned. Shoot the cheapest you can get, doesnt make sense to pay double for the same bang.

Rifles will rust even if you don't use corrosive ammo. There seems to be a myth that you don't need to clean your rifle properly if you use non-corrosive ammunition.

I haven't tried much of the newer polish surplus, but I've still got plenty of cases of the 70s Czeck ammo when it was a hundred bucks per case.
 
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