First spam can

[unhealthyhoarder]

I do not plan to reload the surplus, I plan on reloading lapua and winchester brass. the spam can is just for fun . if you need the opener ill put mine in the mail.

[dft]

Thanks, I chiseled it open and I'll be buying normal ammo in the future. Thanks anyway.

[Titanium Hammer]

Keep smelling commie factory chemical solvents and you will get worse brain damage

I've always wondered if any crates of ammo were stored near Chernobyl and if so, where is it now? My guess...not there anymore and I hope to heck it's not in my basement now!

[unhealthyhoarder]

AP tracer rounds yes!

[dft]

Your's or mine? I'm pretty sure now mine are copper-washed steel case over mild steel core FMJ bullets. Silver-paint tipped for easy (for someone, not me) identification. Using the guide below and some other sites, I think I've figured out most of the can markings. My can is marked just a little differently from the one shown. Under the chisels in my pix is the marks "692-76-188" where it's marked lot-year and plant ID in WeldenHunters sample. The 188 and 76 are also raised embossed on the cartridge head as well so I'm now pretty sure the 188 is the plant ID, one of the older Russian plants, and the 76 is the year made. That leaves the 692 to be the lot number, ??

[WeldonHunter]

Your's or mine? I'm pretty sure now mine are copper-washed steel case over mild steel core FMJ bullets. Silver-paint tipped for easy (for someone, not me) identification. Using the guide below and some other sites, I think I've figured out most of the can markings. My can is marked just a little differently from the one shown. Under the chisels in my pix is the marks "692-76-188" where it's marked lot-year and plant ID in WeldenHunters sample. The 188 and 76 are also raised embossed on the cartridge head as well so I'm now pretty sure the 188 is the plant ID, one of the older Russian plants, and the 76 is the year made. That leaves the 692 to be the lot number, ??

Plant 188 is Novosibirsk and they still make ammo today including commercially sold non corrosive.

[Cwcoolcow]

Keep smelling commie factory chemical solvents and you will get worse brain damage

I've always wondered if any crates of ammo were stored near Chernobyl and if so, where is it now? My guess...not there anymore and I hope to heck it's not in my basement now!

Just can't be too careful. :-) :-) :-)

[Gunowner99]

That is very useful! Thanks!

[Flyin Brian]

good luck on the reloading. I've been loading this round for a long time and its the one I have spent the most time perfecting. I'm curious about your choice of bullets though, as I've never seen tsx in anything other than .308 which will probably not shoot too well in anything but a Finnish 28-30.

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[Titanium Hammer]

Keep smelling commie factory chemical solvents and you will get worse brain damage

I've always wondered if any crates of ammo were stored near Chernobyl and if so, where is it now? My guess...not there anymore and I hope to heck it's not in my basement now!

Just can't be too careful. :-) :-) :-)

[Titanium Hammer]

ЛПС mean literally "light bullet steel {core}". It's by no means AP, it has blunt nose soft steel core simly for cost reason, Those manufactured early 1970s and later no longer have gray-painted nose.
One thing to remember: never use ammo with Ш on it like this guy did, especialy with SVD. Those rounds are for ShKAS aviation machinegun only. They have a significantly stronger charge and double crimped bullet.

P.S. I wonder how are you going to reload Berdan-primed steel cases.

Wow, that was some serious power! Def, what Soviet plane used this machine gun? Was it on the Shturmovik for use by the tail gunner?? This is a video of the only airworthy Il-2 left in the world. It's amazing considering that this plane is the most produced plane in the history of the world. This one was found in the marshes several years ago just outside of St. Petersburg, Russia. Paul Allen of Microsoft fame has an incredible collection on warplanes just up the road here in Everett, WA. I've been up there many times on their "free fly days" where they fly 2-3 aircraft for an hour every other weekend during the summer months. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkdEDWZOlYM

[WeldonHunter]

ЛПС mean literally "light bullet steel {core}". It's by no means AP, it has blunt nose soft steel core simly for cost reason, Those manufactured early 1970s and later no longer have gray-painted nose.
One thing to remember: never use ammo with Ш on it like this guy did, especialy with SVD. Those rounds are for ShKAS aviation machinegun only. They have a significantly stronger charge and double crimped bullet.

P.S. I wonder how are you going to reload Berdan-primed steel cases.

DEF he's just lucky he's firing those out of a Mosin Nagant. We've seen the torture test videos some morons did with shells packed to maximum loads and the rifle didn't blow up proving just how sturdy these rifles are but there's no way I'd chance firing those out of one. They did manage to lock the bolt up though and ruined the rifle. I'm sure though the rifle he used didn't seem to have an immediate problem, at least none that he mentioned in the video, that rifle was stressed doing this.

[unhealthyhoarder]

who is going to reload berdan primed steel cases?

[wingspar]

I found the can pretty easy to open. It just took a few minutes, and an opener did come with mine.



I didn’t think to take a photo when I opened it, so there are a few rounds missing as I’ve shot some of it. I did do a video opening the can. May even post it some day, heavily edited for time of course. Who would want to watch 10 minutes of someone opening one of these?

[mikeg1952]

I just ordered a Can, what dose mean when the Can lid has no markings on it.

[Gunowner99]

You did a nice job.

[tiberium51]

here ya go (if this has any relevance)

[Junk Yard Dog]

Neat job of it