The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

I've been eyeing some of this ammo since I knew I was getting a M1 Garand and I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with it. They say its all marked KA71 or KA72 if that helps. Also wondering if the brass would be good enough to reload with.

The LA stuff is corrosive primes, that much I recall from back when it was commonly around.

Where I've seen it they advertised that it's "most likely" corrosive so to treat it as such. My main thing is if I can reload the brass or would it be too old. I don't know enough about reloading to know, I'm just saving brass for when the time comes.

At the risk of perpetuating a situation I saw this on another site and decided it might be of interest, different batch codes but M1 is the rifle mentioned.
http://www.msgunowners.com/t53343-found ... -14#497910

Not sure about suitability for reloading but I have found that some of the older Mil brass was only intended for one shot and was maybe not as well manufactured as we might expect nowadays, as such I have found it wise to anneal it before I reload, it has helped to reduce the incidents of neck cracking.

Hope it is of some use.

No likely about it, it's positively corrosive, all 1970's dated stuff from what I recall. I sold some to somebody I know, and despite my warnings to clean as if it was corrosive he failed to do so until two days after shooting it up. The bore of his Smith Corona 03-A3 had a nice coating of rust in the bore, he complained and I suggested to him that maybe next time you listen to me asshole when I warn you to clean your weapon right away. Some people shouldn't be trusted with real rifles.

If I was you, I'd avoid it like the plague.
Jon

It is corrosive. That being said.....I bought a bunch awhile back, shot it all up, and have been reloading the brass since. As always, inspect brass closely for defects before reloading, otherwise I say "have at it" if the price is right.

I bought 200 rounds of the Korean M2, 200 rounds of Lake City, and 200 rounds of Greek. The Korean is the worst of the three; very inconsistent velocities and bad accuracy. I like the Lake City the best, but it is getting hard to find. Check out what you are getting very closely. Most of the Korean was belted machine gun ammo with a lot of case dents and bent bullets. I had about 5% that was not usable. I'm thinking about just pulling the bullets on the whole lot and using them for reloading. I will probably not buy any more of the Korean.