Present Day Commercial Ammunition???

[Mr. T]

A friend asked me the other day if "present day" ammunition that is manufactured for the public still has corrosive primers. I told him I wasn't sure, but that I thought that most corrosive primers were done away with around WWII. Does anyone on here know if that is correct?

 

[1911 guy]

I don't know about some of the com-bloc stuff like Wolf and Tula, but all U.S., Israeli, German, Italian and French ammo is non-corrosive. That's the only stuff I have experience with.

 

[caribou]

I think that the Europeans, Russian Bi-athalon teams still use corrosively primed .22lr for deep cold weather ignition reliability....

Other than that, its milsurp, corrosively primed for the same reason

 

[Sam1911]

Even the majority of the Wolf type imported stuff being made now is non-corrosive, as is all US-made ammo. Really not a worry unless you're into buying real eastern bloc surplus stuff, or true antiques. (I've got some 8mm Mauser loaded in the '30s. Really quite corrosive.)

 

[Ryanxia]

The only thing I come across that's corrosive is the spam cans of 7.62x54r for the Mosin Nagants. The commercial US made ammo in that caliber is non corrosive I believe but the spam cans are a lot cheaper.

 

[Sam1911]

The only thing I come across that's corrosive is the spam cans of 7.62x54r for the Mosin Nagants.

Or spam cans of 5.45x39 for AK-74s.