Wheres the best price on 7.62 x 25???????????
- Thread starter themouser
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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Where out west are you?
Mumbles Marble Mouth
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Reliable either has a mistake on their website or they honestly are charging an arm and a leg for their 7.62x25. One of their Vancouver competitors not on this forum is selling the exact same ammo, Polish, brass cased, 70rd boxes, for significantly less.
I went to Reliable about 6 months ago and they had Norinco 7.62x25mm non-corrosive for a very good price and Polish 7.62x25mm surplus for a ridiculously high price -- it was confusing.
Unfortunately, there aren't really any good prices anymore. TradeEx and Fronterfirearms seem to be the best.
- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Tradex seems to be the best right now for surplus, I was looking at reliable and Wanstalls last night and no x25 is listed as in stock atm.
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- On a resonably direct route in NS
Unless you find a smaller store, local, non- site sponsor, with a better deal, TradeEx. $500 still gives a good price per round but it was almost half that a couple of years ago!
That Polish ammo came in at a high price, so it's been distributed as such and you're not going to like the price as much no matter where you see it. I don't like it too much anyway; cheap brass that always seems to split, putting soot all over the inner parts of the pistol where good cases don't. Not as easy to handle loose in those big cardboard boxes either, rather than on clips in smaller boxes (even if you can't load from clips, still handy).
Saw somebody's barrel link fail while shooting the Polish, but I don't know if that's a comment that it's loaded even hotter than the others, or he was just un-lucky.
It's all steel core and jacket by the way, except some of the '50s production Czech stuff. But you don't know what's in that crate until you open it, though, and find the white instead of off-white boxes.
Canada Ammo has non-corrosive lead core, but it's steel jacketed. Good price if it means you can shoot it at an indoor range, but many places won't allow steel jackets either, so be sure before you get a case at $700. TTs are so easy to clean of corrosive residue, I don't see an advantage only for that. Most times I come home I don't even open a gun kit: boil a kettle, take the slide off, dish gloves and pour down the barrel, push a piece of paper towel through with a pencil, dampen paper with the water and wipe bolt face and around, done. Never a sign of corrosion.
That Polish ammo came in at a high price, so it's been distributed as such and you're not going to like the price as much no matter where you see it. I don't like it too much anyway; cheap brass that always seems to split, putting soot all over the inner parts of the pistol where good cases don't. Not as easy to handle loose in those big cardboard boxes either, rather than on clips in smaller boxes (even if you can't load from clips, still handy).
Saw somebody's barrel link fail while shooting the Polish, but I don't know if that's a comment that it's loaded even hotter than the others, or he was just un-lucky.
It's all steel core and jacket by the way, except some of the '50s production Czech stuff. But you don't know what's in that crate until you open it, though, and find the white instead of off-white boxes.
Canada Ammo has non-corrosive lead core, but it's steel jacketed. Good price if it means you can shoot it at an indoor range, but many places won't allow steel jackets either, so be sure before you get a case at $700. TTs are so easy to clean of corrosive residue, I don't see an advantage only for that. Most times I come home I don't even open a gun kit: boil a kettle, take the slide off, dish gloves and pour down the barrel, push a piece of paper towel through with a pencil, dampen paper with the water and wipe bolt face and around, done. Never a sign of corrosion.
