rnc is on my barnaul boxes.

86 is year of production.

here is an uly headstamp"



here is a barnaul headstamp:



and a barnaul symbol detail view:

barnaul is 58-59 grain air pocket. iirc, wolf is about the same.

the uly i bought (in 1999) was much heavier...70 gr if my feeble mind is working.

test is for corrosive properties by pulling a bullet and sticking a shiny nail in the powder (mercuric primers were history many, many years ago.).

treat all ammo as corrossive until you KNOW otherwise. guns are exspensive. cleaning supplies are not.

back in the day, ALL russian ammo came in plain white boxes...polyany, molot, barnaul, klimovsk, etc.

the rnc may (or may not be) a russian trade organization. barnaul jsc, wolf, silver bear, brown bear, etc. are just marketing names for the repackaged ammunition still made at the old state owned (now privatized by the oligarchs and russian mafia) factories.

my apology...let's try 'tula', not molot.