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WARNING-New Red Army ammo is CORROSIVE
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<blockquote data-quote="knc1105" data-source="post: 833270" data-attributes="member: 23577"><p>The ammo is new production 2012 or 2013 head stamp not mil-surp and advertised by Century, Aim Surplus and everybody else as non corrosive new production steel cased ammo just like Silver Bear and others. I just wanted everybody to know it seems to be more corrosive than military surplus and I shoot a lot of Russian 7.62x54R and tons of 8mm and this is dirtier, harder to clean and seems more corrosive than the old cheap surplus. As to why I am shooting those rifles, I am a shooter not a collector/seller. Those rifles will be passed to kids and grand kids and never sold. I don't own gunsafe queens. I built prototype sights for them and all 4 of those rifles shoot sub-MOA. The Finns will hit a 12" plate all day at 500 yards with those iron sights and a consistent wind up to 10mph. We had 3-hits in a row on a 18"x24" plate with a 8 mph wind at 750 yards. Yea it was cool to have the rare rifles even though I'll never sell them, but I have them because they shoot, being super rare is a bonus. It is really cool to out shoot the guys on both sides of you at the range with their big scope bolt guns with what they think is an old surplus rifle and iron sights. It's kinda like winning the Indy 500 in a pick-up truck. And yes I have a bunch of long range precision rifles, but components are hard to find and I'm tired of staying up all night loading to go shooting every Sunday. I've been saving my big stuff and grabbing a Tuna can of ammo and a opener and go shooting. Most of the matches where we shoot give extra or double points for iron sights and have separate classes for bolt guns and semi's so I'm not shooting against a Super Match M1A. Next month with the Finns I'm going to shoot both classes, my National Match M1A Custom and a Finn M39 in the bolt gun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="knc1105, post: 833270, member: 23577"] The ammo is new production 2012 or 2013 head stamp not mil-surp and advertised by Century, Aim Surplus and everybody else as non corrosive new production steel cased ammo just like Silver Bear and others. I just wanted everybody to know it seems to be more corrosive than military surplus and I shoot a lot of Russian 7.62x54R and tons of 8mm and this is dirtier, harder to clean and seems more corrosive than the old cheap surplus. As to why I am shooting those rifles, I am a shooter not a collector/seller. Those rifles will be passed to kids and grand kids and never sold. I don't own gunsafe queens. I built prototype sights for them and all 4 of those rifles shoot sub-MOA. The Finns will hit a 12" plate all day at 500 yards with those iron sights and a consistent wind up to 10mph. We had 3-hits in a row on a 18"x24" plate with a 8 mph wind at 750 yards. Yea it was cool to have the rare rifles even though I'll never sell them, but I have them because they shoot, being super rare is a bonus. It is really cool to out shoot the guys on both sides of you at the range with their big scope bolt guns with what they think is an old surplus rifle and iron sights. It's kinda like winning the Indy 500 in a pick-up truck. And yes I have a bunch of long range precision rifles, but components are hard to find and I'm tired of staying up all night loading to go shooting every Sunday. I've been saving my big stuff and grabbing a Tuna can of ammo and a opener and go shooting. Most of the matches where we shoot give extra or double points for iron sights and have separate classes for bolt guns and semi's so I'm not shooting against a Super Match M1A. Next month with the Finns I'm going to shoot both classes, my National Match M1A Custom and a Finn M39 in the bolt gun. [/QUOTE]
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