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Posted: 2/27/2022 11:27:54 PM EDT
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Looking for a value on this stuff. Price per round. Confirmed steel core. Attached File |
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OST= Old School TAG, nowadays we have a subscribe button. BOT- I've seen it for sale on the local guntrader site for a buck a round, I can't imagine paying that, had a bunch of that stuff in the nineties, it wasn't great and smelled like cat piss when fired. Like others have mentioned, it wasn't designed to be AP ammo, they used a mild steel core because it was cheaper than lead, or so I was told. |
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It is worth what someone will pay for it. A lot of people have figured out steel core is not a big deal, but In today's climate, you can probably get a buck a round for it, in spite of it being corrosive primed and likely 50 years old. What is the head stamp? People used to shit on Chinese ammunition but I never had any problems with it. |
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Originally Posted By 1Devildog: It is worth what someone will pay for it. A lot of people have figured out steel core is not a big deal, but In today's climate, you can probably get a buck a round for it, in spite of it being corrosive primed and likely 50 years old. What is the head stamp? People used to shit on Chinese ammunition but I never had any problems with it. It is indeed old. 131/77 headstamp. |
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Wanna buy some from me? Attached File |
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Originally Posted By Millennial: Wanna buy some from me? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/132797/9FE9FC15-7C58-4566-ABE8-25B4991B3AC6_jpe-2298211.JPG I've got about 2k right now, so I'm all set. But thank you. |
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Several countries make/made AP and API in 7.62x39mm. I've never seen any of the AP loads in the US in other than collector quantities. The performance of the API rounds is disappointing. I tested some against mild steel and they barely penetrated 3/8". The Russians stopped making them in the 1950s/early 1960s, but China and the WP countries and a few others continued to do so. The 7.62x39mm just doesn't have enough ass to be a great AP round. |
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Originally Posted By JButlerHickok: For a collector a full yellow box of ChiCom would be worth a dollar or less a round. For shooting all I ever heard was complaints on how filthy sooty it was. As cheap as I can be I never bought any China made ammo even at its cheapest and most available time. I never experienced Chinese ammunition being more dirty than any other. |
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Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: I have a local guy selling some china sports 762x39 SP for .30cpr Is that a decent buy? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/136887/220908-085649_Gallery-2530576.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/136887/220908-085653_Gallery-2530577.jpg Yes, it's a very good price |
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Originally Posted By tstorms: Yes, it's a very good price Originally Posted By tstorms: Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: I have a local guy selling some china sports 762x39 SP for .30cpr Is that a decent buy? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/136887/220908-085649_Gallery-2530576.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/136887/220908-085653_Gallery-2530577.jpg Yes, it's a very good price @tstorms Thanks. Because the market is high or because that ammo is worth more? I am reading mixed results. |
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SP chinese always cost more, even back when it was imported. I have never tested any of it, but it has to work a lot better than any of the HP ammo that won’t open up on anything. Plus it was specifically made to export to the US, vs being some surplus stuff from the 60’s or 70’s. I would buy it all at .30 a round, even before the current ammo crunch. |
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Edit- well maybe 2020 wasn’t so bad after all.....
| Added- my dad actually carried a MAK-90 as a patrol rifle for a while, and used that exact ammo for his duty rounds. He never shot anyone with it, but he put down a ton of injured animals all the time as he was a game warden, and may have used it there instead of some of the other choices he had . I will ask... |
2021 can’t come soon enough!
Edit- well maybe 2020 wasn’t so bad after all.....
Edit- well maybe 2020 wasn’t so bad after all.....
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I still have some of that crap- it chrono'd at about 2300fps, which is about par. IMO it got its rep back when it was imported because people thought the steel core made it special and it became an internet legend. Sellers are always trying to get stupid $$ for it but I've seen it in gunshops junk boxes for a low as .18/rd about 3 years ago- probably higher now... |
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