Ash
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"My most serious concern is with steel-cased surplus. Even if it's laquered or plated, how do you know there isn't corrosion on the inside?"
If it were a problem, we would know it by now. The legions of shooters of the steel-cased ammo have not established any kind of pattern with it, save for tough extraction in some Mosins. However, buy an intact tin and open it up. If it is sealed, you will know it by the ammo inside.
Yet, it seems that the brass-cased ammo is more likely to be an issue, as the brass becomes hard after a time and can crack. Of all the milsurp ammo I have ever experienced, it has only been brass-cased ammo that was brittle enough to crack at the neck.
And, what ever you say about them Ruskies/Buglies/Hungars/etc, they knew how to store their ammo. Now, if it is coming out of a Central American depot, all bets are off.
Ash
If it were a problem, we would know it by now. The legions of shooters of the steel-cased ammo have not established any kind of pattern with it, save for tough extraction in some Mosins. However, buy an intact tin and open it up. If it is sealed, you will know it by the ammo inside.
Yet, it seems that the brass-cased ammo is more likely to be an issue, as the brass becomes hard after a time and can crack. Of all the milsurp ammo I have ever experienced, it has only been brass-cased ammo that was brittle enough to crack at the neck.
And, what ever you say about them Ruskies/Buglies/Hungars/etc, they knew how to store their ammo. Now, if it is coming out of a Central American depot, all bets are off.
Ash