shooting 1950's surplus?

[TylerPearce]

Is the Polish surplus from the 50's on AIM any good?

 

[ol' scratch]

What caliber? What is the actual age? What are you shooting? What do you mean 'good'?

 

[TylerPearce]

sorry, i did't even think when I was typing this.

7.62x54r in a Mosin. Does It shoot every time? Is the primer slow? Are the cases corroded? Is it accurate? The only surplus that I have shot was Russian 7.62x54r

 

[F40]

I'm sure it's fine. I've shot it before with no hang fires or anything.

 

[TylerPearce]

alright, thanks! I really want to try some new ammo out.

 

[fireman 9731]

I was wondering the same thing, Thats a decent price if the chargers actually work.

 

[Cosmoline]

I've been shooting quite a bit of this from my M39 lately. It's giving me very solid groups and is my current main practice ammo. I'm buying a spam can of it this weekend in fact. This early stuff seems to have a hollow base bullet of about .310." I suspect that will make it better for the tighter bored Mosins like mine.

I don't know if the primers are corrosive, but assume they are and do the usual cleanup the same day as the shoot not a month later. The Polish is shooting quite clean, apart from that. Much cleaner than Albanian, for example.

Zero hangfires out of the 100+ tested so far

The stripper clips its comes on aren't the best, but aren't the worst either. Just remember to grip the sides when you push down or it may "spit" a middle round out and force you to start over.

 

[TylerPearce]

Sweet, it's going to be fun to use ammunition that is almost as old as the gun!

 

[Hatterasguy]

The spam can ammo should last just about forever. Those cans are sealed tight, I don't think even failout from a nuclear blast would get through.