Id this ammo

[yomomma]

Sticker said Norinco but looks to be repainted Albanian spam can. QC paper inside was written in Albanian.

Says 460 count, three 10 round stripper clips wrapped in wax paper with a string holding them together.

 

[CanAm]

not norinco

what is the headstamp. I cannot read your pic

 

[yomomma]

86 3 11

 

[CanAm]

yep Albanian , made in 1986

Not surpise given the note inside

From memory during my visit, there were only 3 "special industry" factories in Albania, one of which was the Polican ammo plant. The other were explosives and guns.

 

[yomomma]

I can assume its corrosive then

 

[CanAm]

I can assume its corrosive then

indeed

 

[yomomma]

Time to buy some more Windex

 

[Robert Nicholson]

You seem to be a magnet for ugly purchases! What is that purple gunk? Sealer that has melted? Most x39 surplus is quite nice looking with
a red sealer sometimes and priced at around .23 cents each rather than the .28 cents each of that spam can, but you did get stripper clips.

 

[yomomma]

Difference this time is I did not expect much to begin with. The Albanians must have resorted to child labour yo seal these

Little I could find said Albanian ammo is good ammo.

 

[jonnyc]

Yes, 100% Albanian, and very rare down here in the US! I would love to get a stripper of those.
We got a good batch of Albanian 7.62x54R a few years back. It was similarly ugly, but was reliable and rather accurate........for what it was.

 

[Craig0ry]

My LGS is selling this stuff as Chinese non corrosive

 

[CanAm]

Likely sold as chinese because most of the Albanian stock is Chinese, so this got mixed in the shipment

 

[yomomma]

Happiness is realizing there are 540 bullets in a 460 marked can. Half way through cleaning up the grungy bullets.

 

[yomomma]

Crud cleaned off, looking good.