SKS ammo question

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I have a couple of questions about SKS ammo.
Ive been shooting the Hungarian Surplus ammo from SIR, does anyone know if its Steel-cored, also is it corrosive?
Does anyone know of a place in Canada to get Hollowpoint ammo? as the Remington SPs are more of a Hunting round and although accurate I would like to try more of a anti-zombie type bullet.
 
Hold a magnet to the bullet. If it is attracted there is steel in the core.
I can't comment on the Hungarian stuff as I have not shot it.

Follow Ceska's standard for shooting unknown milsurp ammo, clean it like it is corrosive. :)

If I get a hold of some of these I'll test their PH.
 
The Hungarian is indeed corrosive. Don't know if its steel core but lots of milsurp M43 is.

The only hollow point M43 that I know of is the Wolf brand...... unfortunately not available in Canada. Its also not really an expanding bullet, its just a FMJ with a hole in it.

Craig
 
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Hungarian Surplus...the little white boxes, and they have brown lacquered casings is most defiantly corrosive.

I never tested it to see if it was steel or lead core...I suspect it is lead core as the gong I was shooting at was still intact when I finished...unlike the Czech steel core stuff, that puts nice holes in it. :D

Gee now I have to buy some to find out...oh darn. :rolleyes: :D
 
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After shooting the hungarian ammo from SIR I've noticed that the bullets lose their shape--they kind of flatten a bit, so I suspect that it has a lead core, but the Czech ammo I shot from Canada Ammo kept it's form completely, so it could be steel. I also thought this may have happened because it looks like the SIR ammo had a copper shell while the other ammo did not. Also the bullet from the SIR ammo appeared open at the bottom end--that is not fully "jacketed", which may explain the deformation.
 
The hungarian is most likely lead core because it was made up for the US market from surplus ammo, hence the oft found corrosive primers.
 
Remington also makes 7.62x39 soft point...abit pricey in comparison to the surplus stuff and I'm not sure how they figured out the need for harder primers.

If using this ammo I'd be sure to load only what you intend to shoot, as the next round to be fired after the first will prob' have a dimpled primer from the floating firing pin smacking it.

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Calum said:
Remington also makes 7.62x39 soft point...abit pricey in comparison to the surplus stuff and I'm not sure how they figured out the need for harder primers.

If using this ammo I'd be sure to load only what you intend to shoot, as the next round to be fired after the first will prob' have a dimpled primer from the floating firing pin smacking it.

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what are the hardest primers you can get? If they doomsday comes that Calum predicts where 7.62x39 will be scarce, we will need to reload for the SKS or hang it on the wall :mad:

And what are people doing now for hunting with the SKS? You can't (legally) hunt with surplus FMJ :confused:
 
As mentioned Remington, and Federal make soft point ammo so you can hunt with your 7.62x39 rifle.

Also CCI makes a Primer for semi autos called 'arsenal primers'...but may have changed the name to something else in the last year. It was mentioned in the 2006 gun digest.

Don't worry to much over the 7.62x39 shortage, we have the advantage of it being the most common cartridge in history, and there is no end in sight for global conflicts...Russia just send Millions of rounds of 7.62x39 to Venezuela, along with a few thousand AK's.

Besides which I personally suspect it is more an issue of our suppliers here in Canada...IMHO we simply need more of them to prevent a typically Canadian Monopoly over an imported product.

I won't say much more about it as I'm just giving the competition free ideas.

Besides us SKS folks will adapt in any event...imagine one converted to 30/30 Winchester. :D
 
The hungarian from SIR shoots great and has been rather accurate. It is however lead core as it disintigrates upon impact with something hard like a rock, saw blade or hard sand burm (I know this for sure). I can also confirm that cantrary to my earlier belief their are at least a lot of corrosive primers in those boxes.

Can't beat the price though. I buy it 300rds at a time for $50.
 
Yes it says it is lead core right on the box and it is definatly corrosive. I think Im gonna order the Czech steal core. Thanks for your help.
 
It was military ball which had the steel core bullets pulled and lead core loaded. Various dates on the headstamps, but that is not the recent loading date. It appeared about 3 years ago so say loaded 4 years ago, ballpark.
 
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