Ammo ID?
I bought 2 these spam cans yesterday for $100. I know it's 7.62x54R but thats all. Can anyone tell me what it is from the markings or would I need to open 1? He said he had them for a couple years stored in a gun safe & can't remember what grain, bullet type they are. I've been looking online but I can't seem to find what I need. The cans look new so I tend to believe he stored them right & the ammo is still good.
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The lettering is in Cyrillic and it looks to me to be Bulgarian. The heading reads 7.62 LPS GZ(although that is not an actual Z, the sound close but different). 0 -
quote:Originally posted by mark christian
The lettering is in Cyrillic and it looks to me to be Bulgarian. The heading reads 7.62 LPS GZ(although that is not an actual Z, the sound close but different).
I was thinking Russian but hey it all looks Greek to me.[:p][:D] Thanks Mark.0 -
Cans look ok on the outside. Heat damage doesn't show itself very easily. 0 -
Russian steel core, 147grn BT Lightball, loaded in 89 at the Russian State Factory at Frunze, Kirgisia, Russia. $50 a can, you stole it! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by TRAP55
Russian steel core, 147grn BT Lightball, loaded in 89 at the Russian State Factory at Frunze, Kirgisia, Russia. $50 a can, you stole it!
Yep, normally when I see things like this in the sale paper there gone. I lucked out this time. Do you know of a website that helps translate the markings on these old spam cans?0 -
quote:Originally posted by D@D
quote:Originally posted by TRAP55
Russian steel core, 147grn BT Lightball, loaded in 89 at the Russian State Factory at Frunze, Kirgisia, Russia. $50 a can, you stole it!
Yep, normally when I see things like this in the sale paper there gone. I lucked out this time. Do you know of a website that helps translate the markings on these old spam cans?
I haven't found one.
If you know the basic spam can info, and cartridge type, you can decipher the rest. The bottom can with the silver stripe, is Russian factory 188 lightball. You rarely see the color codes anymore, and you rarely see the bullet tip color coded. Silver tip is lightball, that's usually steel core, yellow is heavy ball, and yellow with a silver tip is heavy ball with a steel core.
The "case type" tells you if it's brass, lacquered steel, or copper washed steel. Both of these would be copper washed steel.
Loose rounds can be ID'ed by the head stamp, which is usually two numbers, the factory code, and the year made.
The rounds in the bottom can will have "188", and directly across from that, "71". Even though the can may have the silver stripe for lightball, the bullet itself may, or may not, be color coded.0 -
I did come across this site in my search today. Maybe you & others find it useful. I sure did.
http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinAmmoID01.htm0
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