I never knew that the soviets packed there ammo so neatly and thoughtfully

Worst case scenario, you can flip it over and slide it back and forth on flat concrete or pavement to grind off the raised lip.

Every video I see says you can hear the air escape when they first puncture the top of the can. They are wrong, the cans are not pressurized, they are vaccume sealed. When you puncture the top the sound you hear will be air sucking into the can, not escaping !

That is not 1976 air escaping Its 2013 air rushing in. The cans are vacuum packed

I like the decorative way of opening the can because I am left handed and it just kooks better! Thanks for the tip. Keep up the good work!

01:36 The codes on the ammo crate read: *5,45 гс ПС* = 5,45 (5.45x39mm M74 cartridge), "gs" (Gil'za Stal_ > "[lacquered] steel cartridge case"), "PS" ( _Pulya Stalnoi_ > "Bullet with Steel penetrator"). *M37 - 76 - 339* = Lot M37, Year of Production 1976, Factory Line 339. *2160 Шт.* = 2160 "sht." ( _shtuka_ > "Pieces", Quantity of items) Contains 2160 rounds of ammunition. There are 2 x 1080-round "spam cans" per crate. *СФ033Фп 14/76 M* = Powder Type "SF033fn", Powder Batch 14 of Year 1976, Powder Mill "M". The overstamp on the left-hand side is the UN LOCODE for the ammunition. 00:53 The codes on the ammo can reads: *5,45 гс ПС* = As above. *B03 - 77 -270* = Lot V03 - 1977 - State Factory 270 [Lugansk Cartridge Works (Luhansk, Ukraine)] *1080 Шт.* = 1080 rounds. 36 x 30-round packets. *ВЧ545Фп 16/76 K* = Powder Type "VU545fn", Powder Batch 16 of Year 1976, Powder Mill "K".

The sound sync is about 4 decades off.

It's hard watching him open 3 of these in 2020...

Great video. It's always interesting to see how Soviet soldiers did things, it's not always the same way as one might imagine. Nicely done!

I could imagine a situation i would be in and use this. Thank you. I picture an apocalyptic type situation where a man in a burlac cloak would be sitting in a bunker, staring at the case not knowing how to open it.

Last video I watched was Chinese surplus opening. I'm amazed at how both nations packaged their ammo, simple and effective, to keep it good.

Very nice. One nit-pick - there are two ways ammo can corrode. One is by moisture, like you said, and these sealed cans will indeed prevent that from happening as long as the can doesn't rust all the way through from the outside. The other way, though, is by decomposition of the smokeless powder, which happens slowly over time even without any moisture. This produces nitric acid which corrodes the cartridge cases from the inside out. Inhibitors are added to the powder to prevent this, but eventually the inhibitors are used up (because they are consumed by reaction with the nitric acid) and the cases will corrode. If the cases are lacquered on the inside, this process is slowed down even further. Like most chemical processes, this is exponentially temperature dependent - so storing the ammo in a cool environment will make the decomposition orders of magnitude slower than in a very hot environment. At room temperature, cases which are not lacquered on the inside will suffer this corrosion fate in about 70 years. Internally-lacquered cases will last 80 to 100 years.

Thanks. Just opened my 1st tin of 5.45 from 1979. Looking forward to trying it out in my PSAK 105. Never shot this type of ammo previously

Thanks, that is a very useful bit of info, since I don't have the "can opener" but a chisel and hammer, I do have.

Thinking of possibly investing in a milsurp rifle. Not expensive but with history. Thanks for the great idea of opening it the decorative way that still keeps the lid intact. I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to fit it back on after opening like that, even if it wouldn't be as air tight.

Very cool ! Thanks for the info!

thanks for the info. bro, keep up the great work!

Thank You for the lesson!

Thanks. Found exactly one of this ammo can in my grandfathers house and was scaried to open it. But that helped me alot !

lol didnt have a sickle on hand for this one haha

Great JOB. I LEARNED ALOT THANK YYOU

Thanks for helping us learn.

When western companies started buying surplus ammo from Bulgaria some of them wanted to repack the ammo, they would open the cans and to put the ammo in the crates because they hold more. Some times you would find crates without the metal band because every year ammo from every lot must be checked for corrosion, overpressure etc.

Although this video had no use to me at all, I still found this very interesting and entertaining, keep up the good work

I don't watch your vids for tutorial, I watch it because it is entertaining, keep up with the good work!

Lol he tried to say proof and said poop but I'm still your biggest fan

Air escaping? I thought these were vacuum packed, so that would be air rushing in.

Excellent demo! Two thumbs up"

I was always amazed at how much time it takes to open these, even with a can opener. If I were in a combat situation, I'd be dead before I could get that can open! Somewhere I have one of those can openers, I need to find it again. I have three cases of the SPAM canned ammo, but prefer to leave it sealed at the moment. I just use commercial stuff for now at about $6.00 for 20 rounds.

Great info, thanks!

Well this is useful, I always struggle when I open my soviet ammo cans in the morning

Thanks. I’ll put the other can opener away and dig the original opener out of the trash. I had no idea!

Excellent! Thanks!

Really cool! Nice job!!!

This helps anyone, like myself, that buys soviet era ammo in bulk. I have a store that I work in and we sell guns I.e. mosins the come in these cans for ammo. I've seen someone use a power sae to open one and holy shit I was scared, the chisel way helps because we don't always keep the openers or they don't come with the ammo. Thanks

Personally, I just used my pocketknife. I can also open cans of food with it. Very difficult, also makes a lot of messy sharp points around the edge that could easily cut you (In Soviet Russia, can opens YOU!'). Still, better to have a sharp can and a slightly temporarily dulled knife, than to have an empty rifle ;)

It seems like you can use the concrete rubbing trick with those, too. Don't know if you would consider this safe (don't see any reason why it wouldn't be), but if you were to take a tuna can (for instance) and rub that top ridge back & forth along the concrete it would grind that seam away so the can will open (you'll know you've ground enough from the ground being wet). It seems like the same type of can design, so it should work- you could probably use a file/sharpener/abrasive rock as well.

nice , my thoughts exactly !

i just use a plasma cutter....

this is why i subscribed to this channel

Thanks for the idea of opening it from the sides! Also how do you compare the Russian vs the silvertip? is one hotter than the other? Accuracy? Thanks

Looks to me like the same opener that i open my beef-o roni with would work just as well.

Best unboxing video ever

Great Video!!

What a tough guy he is! He grabbed that canning lid with bare hands! OMG

Watching this in 2020 makes me so sad I didn't buy pallets of that badass 7N6 ammo when it was $170 per wood crate with two 1,080 round cans in it! 😥 Man I wish I had a time machine. I'd go back and buy a dumpster full of 7N6, $10 bakelite and circle 10 waffle mags.

I have a can opener like that and Always wondered where it came from lol. Now I know it’s a soviet ammunition can opener

Now that you have 3 open ammo boxes we expect crazy videos soon!!

Great video

that's an interesting thought

That can is freaking massive.

The sharp edges on the lids look like good hand slicers.

great video thanks

i love your vids

yeah Spam is a famous brand , i was curious myself when i was researching the name.

I heard that you can open these sorts of cans by rubbing the crimped edges on top against an abrasive surface until you get through the metal. I think this would be a great way to reuse the box to store the ammo (After some modifications) or to store other stuff. Any chance you could do a video to see if this works??

I love opening these.

that's beautiful. i have an SKS and am trying to find a good site to buy these same products. any suggestions would be appreciated. PS. would suck being in combat opening one of those

Good shit nice content man

Wonder what an air analysis would show for that 1976 air VS air today??

ur vids r awesome

Good video Broski.

KGB Survivalist How long did it take you to do the decorative way? Also do you have to use it a certain angle, cause it doesn't seem to not to have enough room to clear the lip and the bottom of the lid.. FYI.. I am doing this on a 7.62x54r can. Thank you

Not only did I learn to open a can of ammo, I actually know what a can of ammo LOOKS like. Now I want one for prepping purposes...

Nice Job Com-rad.

My favorite way is the survivalist concrete method.

Back in old days of Soviet expansion in Afghanistan, in a time of hot battle, we had no time to use such a fancy methods for can opening. So instead, we were just using an Electric Super Can Opener 9000 to do this job in a half of a second.

That's awesome and I just want the little wood crate they come in.

Отличный товарищ !

Ever seen footwraps? Great thing to know to do (they're like socks, but easier to improvise & custom fit- plus they dry quicker & easier and you can wrap insulation like grass, newspaper, seat cushioning, etc... for warmth). As a trick, since you seem to like MacGyver-type stuff (as do I)- you can stuff grass into a shoe that's too big for your foot to make it fit better. there's a book: Makeshift Workshop Vol 1 & 2 that covers plenty of stuff like that.

Grinder works wonders!

where do you buy these? Or am I just out of luck and it has all been bought up

Good video! I was wondering where you get your ammo from tho? Every place I have says I can only get 1 per transaction and I was wanting to buy 2 so I can get the wood crate. Please and thank you. :)

thx!

its funny because its the first video i ever made, (tuna can and concrete) itl just take forever with the ammo can

man I thought there was gonna be spam in there

Awesome

what kind of gun do they use for this size of ammo?

Had a friend buy one of these in the early 1990s. He was in sheet-metal at the time, so lacking a Soviet tin-tool, he had to break out his own metal shears.

Cool vid

Where can you get just the ammo crates. Like no ammo or cans.

Just got a mosin and some spam cans. But the factory number is a 10 inside 2 quartered circles. The ammo was made in 1971 if that helps, does anyone know what factory this came from?

whats a good website to order surplus ammo from? preferably 7.62x39

So glorious...

Hey do you know where to get a can opener like that?

I wonder how long it would take to open one like you did the tuna cans . . .

Can you make a knife out of the can opener ?I mean if that is the only thing you have left ?

First layer of paper always looks like spam in all these videos. XD

Wher do you buy spam cans or case?

I love your giant zippo lighter near the wd40.Cool.

What typ of a tuna can storage system is that

That is so cool man

Where do you get military stuff like this?

where do you get the box! I need that lol

air from 1976....and that laugh......sounds like taras

Sorry if you said it and I missed, how many bullets does the entire can hold, and how many bullets is in each small bag inside of it?

That is funny! Well, that's good to know. I'm suprised you never did a video on footwraps. I've seen how to do it, but that's a good trick that not too many people know. Talk about a zombie apocalypse skill! Apparently, mountain men used to do that, too. I'd think you could use brain-tanned leather, too (frequently called buckskin, it's fairly absorbant & probably breathable enough). Furs would work for the winter, but might need to be brain-tanned, as well.

lol yeah i should be back on track , switching computers out , sorry for the gap in time

Where did you get these boxes? I think I want one haha :D

Accidentally hits primer.