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Ask @DonFlynn He's fired quite some bit of it. And FWIW, I fired 20 rounds of it just this morning regulating the sights on one of my Carbine's in addition to what I fired a few weeks ago. It was being sold by lots of reputable ammo dealers, you can bet it's fine.
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Age, condition, atleast a couple wars.
The Ammo is surplus Korean.
Ask @DonFlynn He's fired quite some bit of it. And FWIW, I fired 20 rounds of it just this morning regulating the sights on one of my Carbine's in addition to what I fired a few weeks ago. It was being sold by lots of reputable ammo dealers, you can bet it's fine.
I've run about 1000-1500 rounds of the Korean Surplus through my Carbines over the summer. Overall it's good stuff. I did have to inspect every round of some bandoleers I bought from AIM Surplus because some of the cases had mold issues due to improper storage. Most I was able to clean up and I want to say out of 3500 I bought over the summer I only threw out 30 rounds that I just didn't trust.
The last batch I bought from Bud's guns was the best I found, every round looked new, I kept the whole 1080 in the ammo box and plan in using it for reserve stock as needed
As to the issue of gunsmiths. I've sent 3 Carbines to Fulton Armory the past year or so to have them check over and rebuild as needed. At the time they had a 12 week waiting period though, not the current backlog.
If you can I think it's worth having them look over a Carbine. The problem with most "gunsmiths" anymore IMO is they only want to work on Glocks or AR's. Anything "old school" that needs specialized tools they pass on.
I'm thinking of sending 1 more to them if I buy another (I have 5 Carbines now). I'm looking around for another USGI that I can either keep "pure" (my Carbines I had FA work on all got new barrels) so I'm looking around my area for one with the best barrel I can find, or finding a import marked Inland that I can use a 1944 Inland barrel I have now that gauges 1.5 after I had FA crown the muzzle.
I figure Fulton's tech inspections are worth the money, they give you an honest appraisal of what parts are worn and use USGI parts or new production parts made to USGI spec to replace worn parts.
Outside of replacing barrels (my choice on 2, the 3rd was worn out and gauged 3+) they recommended replacing out of spec slides on 2, rebuild bolts as needed and replaced other worn parts as needed.
All 3 now are 100% reliable with quality ammo. I've run close to 1000 rounds of the Korean Surplus through this one with no issues
This is my primary shooter Carbine, a "Howa" Made in Japan Royal Thai Police issue based on a USGI Winchester receiver. I had FA install a new barrel and bolt, and they recommended a new hammer. It came with a Inland Barrel (the one I mentioned) and Inland bolt that I had rebuild and kept as a spare. I figured this to be the main shooter so that's why I went with the new bolt and barrel combo