Korean 30-06?

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Saw some Korean 30-06 hs KA 70 & 71 for sale. Is this any good and is it suitable for reloading?
 
I bought a can of 384rds i think a few years ago for $39 USD, supposed to be mildly corrosive and a few guys on the US forums said that some of the Korean stuff was very high pressure, lost a few Garands. I have been reluctant to shoot it!!
 
The stuff is Boxer primed. One of the US forums did have a list of the lots that where suspicious, but most where fine to shoot.

The ammo that comes on emblock clips is corrosive. The stuff that is in boxes of 20 is not, that was the consensus on that forum.

I have shot the stuff from the 20 round boxes. It's fine.
 
The stuff I have in in enblocs and bandoliers. Its really cool and couldnt pass itup for the price, but the thought of KBing my Garand just to burn cheap ammo doesnt sit well with me!
 
I never had any real nasty trouble with the Korean M2 ball that I had, it was on clips in cloth bandoliers. It wasn't corrosive. It wasn't consistant. It wasn't accurate, in a 1903A3, M1 garand or P17 (Remington). After shooting a couple of bandoliers between them, I sold the rest of it to a fellow that wasn't to concerned with it's accuracy and didn't want the clips or bandoliers, as he was pulling the bullets and changeing out the powder and putting in hunting bullets. I bought all of the bullets back from him and we threw away the powder, it had a vey acidic smell and was dusty as well as some of the powder had become bonded together in the case. I could see this stuff becomeing dangerous soon. That was about five years ago. Also had a case of Brazilian from International firearms do the same thing, after blowing up a fine rifle and contacting them, they graciously, without any fuss offered to pay for all medical expenses, lost time at work and replace the rifle and the ammuition. Luckily, the only injury was a tiny piece of brass that manged somehow to make it around my glasses and get stuck on the white part of the eyball. If I find anything at all odd with milsurp ammo, it either gets returned, if possible, or broken up for components. Usually it is the powder breaking down, but whatever the reason, the chances of personal injury and damageing a fine rifle are just not woth the cost saveings. I'm not saying that I don't buy and use milsurp ammo, but I do shoot it first in a rifle that I wouldn't miss and that has been tied to an old tire and rim. bearhunter
 
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Yes it was, I kept 20 cases and the bullets as a reminder. It's marked CBC 75 7.62. The box was marked REFORMADO or in Portuguese reformed. bearhunter
 
I remember the CBC "Reformado" recall. There was notices all over the US about 10 or 12 years ago. It blew up a few guns including a Rem 700 bolt action. That must take a lot of pressure to do that. I seem to recall a pressure of 120,000 psi being recorded in lab tests of suspect rounds.
One rumour was that the ammo had been deliberately tampered with, and left for rebels to find. Somehow it got into the US surplus market.
 
hmmmm, I picked up a can of korean 30-06 a while ago, found it pretty decent, about 3 failures (no ignition) in 320 rnds. Pulled the bullets and found the powder had started to decompose, probably poor storage at some point in its life. In bandolieers and cliped en-bloc, my garand at it up. Maybe I was lucky, but they sure where selling a lot of it.
 
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