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7.62x39 Portugese Brass Cased Ammo

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Posts: 257 (08/30/08 07:08 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None I was checking ammo boxes this week when I came across some of this type ammo. It came in Green battle packs marked 200 rds 7.62.39, the headstamp is marked 7.62x39 with a 76 at the top. Primers have the green coating. I don't believe it to be Portugese and not sure if it is corrosive or not. Anybody familiar with this type of ammo? I bought it from AIM a while back. Thanks.
m1 talker		#1	[-]
Posts: 6063 (08/30/08 09:46 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have never been able to find any of it, but I have heard reports that it is good stuff. I would like to find some and give it a try out and see how it compares to the other milsurp varieties. As for corrosiveness, I would consider it corrosive until proven otherwise. I also would suspect that it is Berdan primed, but you would have to look at a fired round to make sure. Small gunshow here tomorrow and I will keep my eyes open, but lately ammo at the gunshows has not been as common as it was just a few years ago. Curt
WVchuck		#2	[-]
Posts: 11232 (08/30/08 01:21 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It is berdan primed and non-corrosive and great shooting ammo. It's comaparable to the 7.92 Portuguese ammo as far as quality control is concerned.
ammolab		#3	[-]
Posts: 513 (09/02/08 07:18 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The Portugese did make 7.62x39mm ammo. Great stuff and NONcorrosive for sure. That ammo is not Portugese. All the Portugese I have seen in that caliber was packed in 32rd boxes and 320rd Paks...same pack you see all the other Port. rifle ammo in. Headstamp was "FNM". I know they heastamp to customers wishes...but the packaging always looks Portugese. This ammo and Pak look different for sure. Best bet on your ammo is that it is Iranian mfg and snuck into Bosnia/Serbia/Croatia/ect. During one of the Arms Embargos and then sold off as "surplus" after the killing slowed down. Said to be NONcorrosive although I have never tested any myself.
WVchuck		#4	[-]
Posts: 11247 (09/02/08 09:25 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The stuff I shot was used in a Yugo SKS that I let set for several days. I checked it every day for over a week with no signs of corrosion.
temperflash		#5	[-]
Posts: 273 (09/25/08 02:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	WVchuck wrote: The stuff I shot was used in a Yugo SKS that I let set for several days. I checked it every day for over a week with no signs of corrosion. Well thats one way to do it. The recommended method of testing ammo to see if it has corrosive primers is to pull the bullet and dump the powder, then take a small mild steel plate (not stainless or plated in any way of course) and polish it bright with fine sand paper, being sure there is no oil on it, Set the steel plate an inch in front of the muzzle, load and fire the emptied case in the rifle so only the residue and gases of the primer contact the plate, Clean your rifle well then to be on the safe side, Set the dry and residue contaminated plate in a small closed box (shoe box is good)with a cup of warm (not hot) water. If corrosive the plate should begin to show rust at the point of contamination in 24 hours or less. If no rust shows in 24 hours let it sit a couple of days longer to be sure.
WVchuck		#6	[-]
Posts: 11295 (09/25/08 06:04 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Honestly, we had just finished up a range event a few years ago when this ammo showed up, along with the "is it corrosive?" question, so rather than clean things up right away after the shoot, I left it accessible for a week, checking the bore each morning and evening. I've seen some really corrosive ammo start to work on a bore in less than 24 hours in the past, and I figured if nothing showed up within a day or two, it was non-corrosive, but let it go until the next weekend just to be 100% positive. It was a lot more fun to actually shoot 80+ rounds and get the full effect!
Hessenfesser		#7	[-]
Posts: 56 (10/02/08 09:45 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	All the Iranian that I've seen was dated in the mid-90's and I did clean as if it was corrosively primed after firing that ammo. Any com-bloc ammo from the 70's is likely to be corrosive, so any 7.62x39 from that time should be considered to be corrosively primed unless it can be proven to be otherwise (like the Portugese). ~Hessenfesser

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