Interesting. Thanks for commenting.

The good old days when were considerably more free than we are now.

Being military issue ball one would not expect too much in the way of accuracy. Whart would you say you got out of yours in the way of accuracy? Perhaps three or four MOA?

@@314299 2,, 2 1/2 inch @ 100 yards. a lot of people were shooting it back then. That stuff and that Greman G-3 stuff was plentiful. I would say it would be on par with LC M-80 ball in the accuracy department. Haha. I shot a lot of that stuff too. If you can find it, try some LC M-852 168 gr Match. I found it to be very impressive ammunition. - Peace dude- Dave

I think this stuff was about $.60 a round up here in Canada when it was widely available. It's certainly not a bad idea to put some ammo aside for future use

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Did you find the flash holes on the brass to be smaller than normal? On this stuff the flash holes are smaller than the diameter of a regular de-capping pin.

@@314299 I used a universal de-capping pin and had no problems reloading for my savage 99 .308.

Thanks David.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Yes it is good stuff.

I suspect that this vinyl ammo package was out out of a crate for a long time and may have gotten some small punctures that would allow some damp in, the brass appears to have corroded only where it was in contact with the cardboard package. Like you I'm not sure why I did not buy a crate or two of it when it was on the market.

@@314299 It's that or they packed it in an already humid environment. With the label being moldy, they clearly weren't stored in the best of conditions but if there were punctures in the bag, the cardboard would've also been mouldy. Cardboard looks pristine. I wonder whether a few packets of silica gel would've prevented the corrosion. It's astonishing how one of the jankiest packaged Russian or Chinese surplus ammo is beautiful inside, but the diva packaged ammo doesn't live up to the hype.

My local provincial rifle association provides this ammo for sale to shooters who want to use the club owned rifles, it's seems decent enough for target rifle shooting off the elbows, but not up to F class target rifle use.

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No doubt they are with all the banging around during transport.

Yep, if it were anything other than that code they would not have let it into the country for civilian sale.

I expect that you are using 7.92 Mauser stripper clips? 7.62 NATO stripper clips do not work in my 7.62 Israeli Mauser.

That's certainly a possibility, some folks apparently have very "salty" palms and will leave blued guns with fingerprint shaped rust on them if they are not wiped off. Another possibility might be acidic compounds in the packaging material, I have seen packed ammo corode where it touched the box it was in.

I don't think they are.

The translate app I used says "Stuck" is the word for "piece".

I doubt it as the corrosion appears to be just superficial, there appears to be lots of solid metal under it. At any rate we shall find out when I test a couple boxes of the stuff.

I should have bought some myself when it was first imported.

Hirtenberger made 7.62x51 with Berdan primed cases and also ones with Boxer primers - perhaps the color of the primer sealant is different depending on the primer type?

@@314299 You know AAC started making steel case 7.62x39 with boxer primers the other week and I tried to see if I could tell the difference between the sound and way it shot between the old Berdan primer stuff and I swear I didn’t notice once difference,, you’d think their be something since Berdan has 2 flash holes and Boxer has has one and plus other differences…Although,,old Berdan is notorious for being corrosive..

​@@Jrh-rp7np For what its worth the stuff in the video is Boxer primed.

@@314299 yeah these are the old Berdan primed ones,, idk why I love old Mil surp ammo

No, this ammo has noncorrosive primers so no special cleaning is required after shooting.

I was thinking the 8 o'clock number might have been the month of production but Lot number makes sense.

I've fire a couple boxes of this and I found it to be good stuff.

Austria is not a NATO member, so the ammo they made for their armed forces does not have the nato "compass in circle" marking used on NATO ammo. Despite not being a NATO country this 7.62x51 is very much an equivalent to standard NATO ball ammo for the caliber.

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@@314299 hold on I swear I have some HP 5,56 with a NATO compass dammit now I have to go check some ammo cans

Nope it just says HP 5.56 88 with 3 stake primer marks

The StG58 and the German G1 were quite similar FAL variants.

The worlds simplest time machine?

Always the 1980s stuff that had corrosion, the earlier 1970s rounds had no such problem in my experience. Wish this were still available. It shoots great, and never any misfires.

It could be caused from the cardboard boxes being a bit on the acidic side. I have seen other ammo that corroded like this stuff where it touched the box.

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H ha.

That's quite possible.

Not magnetic. Bullets are, to the best of my knowledge, gilding metal jacketed with a lead core.

Thanks

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