Norinco vs Chinese Surplus

[matthunt101]

I believe I already know the answer to this, but just wondering if there is much difference between the Chinese Surplus 7.62x54 ammo and the Norinco 7.62x54 ammo. I've been having a lot of fail to fires with the Chinese surplus in my SVT, should I expect the same from the Norinco if I buy it? The Norinco is the stuff that was originally marketed as non-corrosive, but turned out to be corrosive.

Thanks in advance.

 

[bp2626]

The difference between the Norinco and Chinese surplus ammo is the age.

The Chinese surplus stuff that's floating around was made in the 1960s I believe and has incredibly hard primers. I get light strikes in all my SVT40s with it.

The Norinco stuff is newer manufacture (brand new?) and may be boxer primed. More than likely the primers don't require as much force and they'll do better in the SVTs.

I switched to Bulgarian/Russian surplus for my SVTs and I haven't had any light strikes.

 

[matthunt101]

This is what I suspected. I was also planning on buying some Russian surplus, until I stumbled upon the Norinco stuff at roughly 5 cents a round cheaper that the Russian stuff.

 

[Andurp]

I'll have some 60's Chinese surplus arriving tomorrow and will be shooting it either this weekend or early next week, schedule allowing. I've fired it out of an SVT-40 belonging to a friend before and as bp2626 said, they don't seem to get along. I'll be shooting it out of an M38 and if all goes well, I'll post back here.