So, how do YOU open that 7.62x39 crate???(Crate Opening for Dummies.)

Anyone who has watched the film Zulu and saw what happened to hundreds of red coats at Isandlwana when the Martini .450 ammo boxes were opened too slow will recognize the problem.

Check out Wiki at h**p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana
 
Thanks, this was helpful. This was my first time buying surplus ammo and I had no idea what I was doing. :)
 
northern skies said:
I didn't read the thread, just the title.

I slip a big screwdriver into one of the rings in the lid. Then I stand on the corners of the box, grab the screwdriver with both hands, and stand up. The lid peels right off.

The south african 7.62 nato crates are WAY harder to open!
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Bought a crate of that 7.62 nato african ball also,pulled the coter pins opened the crate pulled on the handel opened like a dream. 7.62r battle tin was a different story.relized half way home they didn't give me the opener and had to impervize.after i broke the can opener from the kitchen draw,broke out the tin snip's and cold chisel. that made short work of it.
I slip a big screwdriver into one of the rings in the lid. Then I stand on the corners of the box, grab the screwdriver with both hands, and stand up. The lid peels right off.
 
niceely done my and my friends old cans of 7.62x54r didnt have tabs to pull so we had to hacksaw the top off one of them and we smashed the lid in on the other one to break the solder seem:cool:
 
OMG....I just opened this thread and had a good laugh...


Confession Time

the first one of these i got i used a blowtorch...:D
 
Proutfoo:

I recently bought a crate of same ammo (havn't opened it yet!)
By the looks of it (having not bought a crate of ammo before) i likely would have needed a trip to the hospital and the services of two doctors...one to fix my hernia and the second to stitch up the lacerations!

Thanks much for the info!:)
 
Thanks for the thread, just broke into my first crate. Gonna take my VZ 58 out for the first time this weekend.
 
My Case has a few stamps. The only stamp resembling anything like a date is "13/61". If there was a 12 instead of the 13, I would think "dec 1961", but thanks anyways for the extreemly insightful answer:kickInTheNuts:
 
I remember opening my first crate or 7.62 x 39
I grabed the rings and pulled really REALLY REALLY hard. little did I know that they seams were inter stacked so I ended ripping off the entire pull tab. after much swearing and cut knuckles I eventually got it open but is was a good experiance
 
is this the defining lines between men and boys, men have to contend with ammo crates, and the rest of the population with opening blister packs,lol

last time i bled was from a kevlar equivalent blister pack, saw a tv ad recently that they sell blister pack opening tools now for about $10, surely someone on cgn can design a gadget for these crates.

something about pull tabs that don't work on every can of sardines, for me anyway

i think the purpose of the crate leftover is for emergency survival, burn the wood over a fire, while using the tin interior to sterilize water, or make communal soup

terrifically interesting thread,

can anyone start a diversion with " how many _________ does it take to open an ammo crate?" joke.

regards to all
 
I shot mine open with my .303 British. (not recommended). lol / jk... Kinda like a tin of sardines - I actually used a screwdriver.
Hey, if you were under fire with an empty SKS you'd find a way to open it! ;)
 
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