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11/11/2013 1:17:59 PM EDT
Anyone know where to find 7.62x45 ammo?  I ask because Cabelas has a VZ-52 on the used rack I was drooling over.  Only thing stopping me is an ammo source.
11/11/2013 1:26:51 PM EDT
[#1]
You can probably find some in your dreams



I havent seen any in ages. Last I saw was some rusty ammo on gunbroker selling for an absurd amount.
11/11/2013 3:34:23 PM EDT
[#2]
It's extinct.

You might be able to rangle up dies somewhere, and make cases from another round, but as far as buying it forget it.
11/11/2013 4:05:45 PM EDT
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It's around but you really have to keep an eye out. I find it a box here a box there at gunshows and shops. Don't pay too much $4-5 per box. Brass case early 50's  bxn and aym has a lot of duds, the 60's steel case is usually good to go.
11/11/2013 5:08:22 PM EDT
[#4]
Best you will do is probibly 50 cents per round.  Gotta buy pretty good quantitys though.  Try buyin only a box or two of 15 any you will probibly be payin $1 a round.
11/11/2013 6:07:21 PM EDT
[#5]
I walked away from 3 VZ52's for $400 (2 original if fair condition and 1 covered in bedliner) because ammo was unobtainium.  Neat guns otherwise.  I vaguely remember reading about someone re barreling one for 7.62x39 but I don't think they had to much success and it cost not an insignificant amount.
11/11/2013 6:10:24 PM EDT
[#6]
I reload my own.    Formed from 6.5x54 Mannlicher Schoenauer cases.  7.62x39 load data works.  
11/11/2013 10:27:58 PM EDT
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I reload my own.    Formed from 6.5x54 Mannlicher Schoenauer cases.  7.62x39 load data works.  
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this right here, 6.5x52 cases work too, but are that much harder to find

I just use 7.62x39 dies (not right I know, but what i have) and I just make sure to set them right.

Needless to say this old rifle does not get shot nearly as much as it deserves, my VZ52/57 sees alot more use
11/12/2013 12:15:00 PM EDT
[#8]
It can be found, but no one's making any more.

Also check the rifle to see if it's one of the later ones that were chambered in x39.
11/12/2013 2:29:08 PM EDT
[#9]
It's been a couple years, but On Target gun store in Kalamazoo (Oshtemo), MI had a bunch of surplus. It's probably still sitting there. I went to school for five years nearby, and I never saw that ammo move.
11/12/2013 3:19:22 PM EDT
[#10]
I have seen it twice lately in the ad sections of other boards .

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11/12/2013 3:21:38 PM EDT
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Use IM's for this type of conduct.
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