Identify this 7.62X54R

[Okiecruffler]

I bought a few boxes of 7.62X54 from a local shop that was dirt cheap and worked really well in my M44. But now he's out and isn't getting any more. I would like to get a few cases of it, but he told me it was Yugoslavian. I don't think the yugo's ever used the 7.62X54 so I don't know why they would make the ammo. I was hoping someone on board could help out. It comes in cardboard boxes of 15rds. The lable on the box is kinda like this...

15 KOMaAa
7,62 mm METAK
CAAAKHM 3PHOM M908 (c)
IIIIY 6704,P HIIA-02/P
MbA 6704

The case rim is marked with 188 at the 12 o'clock position and 46 at the 6 o'clock.

Any ideas?

 

[Sir Galahad]

Go to the Mosin forum at Parralax's Curio & Relic discussion forums. Someone there knows. There are also Mosin Nagant forums that have this info all laid out.

 

[556A2]

Okie, you have Soviet (Russian) ammo made in 1946, I don't know the arsenal however.

 

[hksw]

KOMaAa
[komada]
quantity

METAK
[metak]
cartridge

3PHOM
[zrnom]
bullet

The word before 3PHOM is the bullet type, e.g., ball, AP, tracer, etc. Don't know what CAAAKHM, or the others are yet.

Although 188 indicates USSR manufacture, my reference is saying 'KOMADA' and 'METAK' as Yugo packaging identification. Could be ammo made in USSR for Yugo.

 

[Redlg155]

Take a peek here also..

http://www.mosin-nagant.net/i3tro4.htm

http://www.ak-47.net/ammo/762x54r.html

Good Shooting
Red

 

[DamnedDirtyApe]

Made by Russians, repackaged by Yugoslavians. The M908 is the designation for the 'new' Russian round of 1908. If it were Yugo made, it would be M30 (J), and dated anywhere from the sixties to the early nineties. DDA