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Maybe!
Some of the very early runs used lots of military primers that were in the production queue.
This was also the case with early commercial hungarian stuff. I think it was branded kfs.
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I am going to agree with this. I shot a lot of the early to mid '90s Russian import x39 (in the '90s
). Most was genuinely "non-corrosive" but some left me with fuzzy red metal in less than 24hrs despite being labeled or advertised as "non-corrosive".
My $0.02; if you have a bunch of this you want to shoot, take it to the range, have fun and collect a number of the empty steel cases. When you get home clean your rifle as you would for "corrosive" primed ammo (just one extra step and a little more attention to the nooks and crannies) and leave the steel cases out in the garage for a few days, periodically examining the INSIDE of the case for rust. If your humidity is extremely low (as it often is in Winter) maybe leave a couple empty cases on your bathroom cabinet (don't even try and explain it to the SO
).