Yellow tipped 7.62x54?

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

Bought a hundred rounds sight unseen about half have yellow painted tips, what does that mean? Tracers? Match ammo?

 

[Garand]

What is the country of origin??

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

No Idea. The headstamp is the number 53 with 21 above it.

 

[svt-40]

Czech heavy ball if I am not mistaken.

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

Thanks guys I may have to save it for a rainy day now.

 

[M77]

color coding site I found. mosinnagant.net/i3tro4.asp. covers many types of 7.62 x 54

 

[MiG25]

hungarian heavy ball. nice ammo, no better than the hungarian light ball though in my experience. wish i had bought more.

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

Thats a good site,thanks.

 

[sail32]

Check out the web site " 7.62x54r ", and the sites that come up when you put, " Mosin Nagant ", into a search engine.

 

[jim webster]

the yellow tip ammo was designed for machine guns and has a 182 gr bullet...slightly hotter than standard loads and seems to shoot quite well in standard rifles...the guys around here seem to really like it anyways..

 

[MiG25]

the yellow tip is no hotter than commercial S&B ammo. can't say whether it is machine gun ammo, it comes in waxed paper wrapping inside a sealed tin.

 

[jim webster]

The ammo i was getting was made in 1954 and was hotter than the S&B ammo...(across the crony) it shot quite well... my stuff came in plain paper, hand tied with string and in packs of 10 rounds..no stippers and 300 rounds to a tin...

 

[762nato]

Tried some a little less accurate than the light ball but servicable.

 

[woodchopper]

If it's the same as the stuff I have (well mostly had now) its good ammo, teh Brass washed steel cases are much nicer then those crappy lackered steel cases.

 

[Caydel]

Yellow tip means it is a lead cored bullet. Silver means it's steel core.

The heavy ball (180gr) was meant for machine guns and some more modern rifles such as the SVD. The standard ball was made for the regular rifles - your average Mosin Nagant. Apparently, the heavy ball can be hard on rifles not built for it.