Corrosive 7.62x39 sold as "non-corrosive"
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I'm just gonna put this out there, The ammo is Non corrosive and it isn't. At least the crate that i got with my SKS was that way. There were a several occasions which i left the rifle for a day before cleaning (i always give the bore a quick scrub and a few patches though even if i do decide to clean another day). there was minor rusting twice, mostly in the gas tube, a little in and around the chamber. The other 2 or 3 times i left my rifle unclean for a day or so, after having fired the same ammo from the same spam can, were just fine.
the times it didn't rust happened first of course, i'm not so careless as to realize the ammo is corrosive and still not clean them. At first however i suspected it was my storage location being too humid and i needed to oil the rifle more, but then i started seeing threads like this. so after my second time i decided to play it safe and just clean it same day regardless of what the box says.
i gotta say though, my corrosive/noncorrosive cleaning procedure has become the same. most say hot water is the way to clean if you're shooting corrosive, but i found it makes cleaning easier regardless.
the times it didn't rust happened first of course, i'm not so careless as to realize the ammo is corrosive and still not clean them. At first however i suspected it was my storage location being too humid and i needed to oil the rifle more, but then i started seeing threads like this. so after my second time i decided to play it safe and just clean it same day regardless of what the box says.
i gotta say though, my corrosive/noncorrosive cleaning procedure has become the same. most say hot water is the way to clean if you're shooting corrosive, but i found it makes cleaning easier regardless.
Lever Arms burn quite a few bridges with this one. LOL!!!
This is Lever Arms we are talking about. There are no bridges. You walk through muck, wade out into the deeper water, fight the current, struggle across. When you get there, they yell at you for making the floor wet, and deny there is a river. You are just wet and tired, so you buy your stuff and leave, while the clerk rolls his eyes.
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That's the consensus; it seems that this large lot was manufactured when China switched production to fulminate primers, but they still had some chlorate primers left over and threw them into the hoppers, because who's going to notice a few thousand of those in a million of the new ones, right? They *intended* the batch to be non-corrosive, they presented it to Lever as NC, and Lever happily supplies it across the nation, and sells it themselves, as NC, despite the now-clear evidence from complaining customers' bores, to documented tests.
Just by chance it appears that maybe half the crates are completely good or only have one or two bad rounds in them, but the rest have varying amounts of corrosive from a dozen rounds to most of the crate. Thus if around 80% of the batch is NC most tests would show NC, and many shooters will be satisfied, but depending on random distribution there are a significant number who get burned.
You're going along, happily shooting through your crate, and everything is good. But when you get a corrosive round, it's a real SALTAGEDDON and suddenly there's a RUSTAPALOOZA all up in your gun. You're taking your chances.
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I'll take credit for ‘rustapalooza,’ but ‘saltageddon’ is the United Nations' recognized term for Stalin's great slug purges.
The horror…
[Hey! I came back to this and saw that it's my post number 870. I really regret not making it in the shotguns section now.]
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I do. Just bought 2x svt-40 at 199$ each from them
In those desperate moments just hang you head low, buy and leave. If anyone ask do what they did in those Army & Navy commercials; the ones where shopper walking out of Army & Navy carrying A&N shopping bags flatly denies they shop at A&N.
