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Corrosive Ammunition: Don’t Ruin a Good Gun

I have a lot of old corrosive ammo still. i have shot a lot of it over the years but none in years. everything i have now will be collectible stuff from the early 1900's and WW2. but i always cleaned everything up really good after a shoot with it. I have a lot of this stuff still in the boxes.

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and many rounds of belted original german ball for the MG34. this is an old pic and i mean old. lol but still have three of those cans full of it. also four or five original german cans full of it.

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These four German cans have newer production stuff, and i'm not sure from when. probably from the 60's or 70's as that pic is almost that old. the ones that are not belted is original steel core stuff.

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So it seems your "uncle(s)" brought some things home with them from Europe???

I've heard corrosive ammo is much easier to clean from a newly (recently) fired firearm....but if left uncleaned it is a bad thing....
 
I don’t know how many spam cans of 7.62x54 and 7.62x39 I ran through M91’s and SKS’s back in the day…but it’s in the dozens, I’d bet.

Hot water down the bore, wash bolt, everything else in hot soapy water, good oiling. You’ll be fine.
 
On AKs and the SKS make sure to remove and clean the the handguard, gas cylinder, piston, piston extension, and piston return spring. Back in the day folks using Chicom corrosive ammo often forgot to do this.
 
Used up a lot of corrosive surplus between 45 and 30 years ago but stopped when some of it started going click...bang. Started getting into reloading about that time so it worked out in the end. Now that's all "collector ammo". 8mm, 8x60R, 303, 30-40, 30-06 even 7.65 Argentine was available for pennies a round through shotgun news mail order. We would also get cases of stuff at Numrich in upstate NY, take it to the hunting cabin and shoot away the weekend.

We used the old WWII surplus corrosive bore cleaner that evening and never had an issue except for trying to get the smell of that stuff off your hands. I still have all but one of those rifles and none of them has a corroded bore, slightly more worn than they were back then but not corroded.
 
Y2K-WS.6 said:
Used up a lot of corrosive surplus between 45 and 30 years ago but stopped when some of it started going click...bang. Started getting into reloading about that time so it worked out in the end. Now that's all "collector ammo". 8mm, 8x60R, 303, 30-40, 30-06 even 7.65 Argentine was available for pennies a round through shotgun news mail order. We would also get cases of stuff at Numrich in upstate NY, take it to the hunting cabin and shoot away the weekend.

We used the old WWII surplus corrosive bore cleaner that evening and never had an issue except for trying to get the smell of that stuff off your hands. I still have all but one of those rifles and none of them has a corroded bore, slightly more worn than they were back then but not corroded.
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Most of the surplus corrosive ammo from yesteryear has been used up. I expect the Russians and Chinese still carry it in their inventory. The $75 SKS rifle purchased in the 80s is now a $400 gun, and I wouldn't want to shoot corrosive ammo and risk messing one up.
 
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