Rusted chinese 7.62

[zartoon]

I bought a couple of crates of chinese 7.62x39 sight unseen and upon opening, I was greeted with this.

Best guess is it was stored outside, and 20 years of sun and rain did the damage.

Z

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/attachment.php?attachmentid=372640&stc=1&d=1417468838

[J.R.W.]

Darn i hope u didnt spend much

[kygen]

refund!

[Vlad 11]

Dang were all the cases like that? Salvageable?

[zartoon]

No refund.
I spent 150/case.
This one is all rusted. The bottom one is 90% ok.

No clue if it's salvageable.
I'm thinking not.

z

[kygen]

maybe you can save the powder, scrap the metal.

[zartoon]

My first thought is. Get the better ones out and clean with wire brush and tumble them.

The rest, I need to figure something out.
Pulling military crimped bullets for the powder with a bullet puller one at a time isn't my idea of fun.

[kygen]

My first thought is. Get the better ones out and clean with wire brush and tumble them.

The rest, I need to figure something out.
Pulling military crimped bullets for the powder with a bullet puller one at a time isn't my idea of fun.

Bring em by my place and I'll give it a try, haha

[bksa]

where did you buy from?

[Crusader]

Ouch, that's rough. I'm sorry to see them in such poor shape. I'm surprised that they were not wrapped better, such as the Russian/Bulgarian/Hungarian/everyone else's ammo that is packed inside of packaging, stuffed in spam cans, then put in boxes.

[Jimmybacon43]

If those rusted AK rounds are good enough for 12 year old Afghani children then they're good enough for you too!

[0321jarhead]

Start here and take it as a loss.

http://www.calema.ca.gov/hazardousmaterials/Pages/Hazardous-Materials.aspx

[louie]

If it is steel cased, I wouldn't take a chance on shooting it. If it was brass, I would shoot it. I had a case of Yugo 39 that looked far worse, and all of them shot fine.

[emcon5]

This is for an AK? I would shoot it.

[zartoon]

bought it at an estate sale. All sales final. Friend spotted them. He's not a shooter. Sent me a picture with a price, and I was feeling unusually sporty, so I went for it

Yes. AK ammo.
I'm weary of shooting it...

You win some, you lose some.
If both cases had been in good shape, it would have been a hellova deal for 2880 rounds of ammo.

oh well.

-Z