Run down of corrosive and non corrosive ammos for 7.62x39

Run down of corrosive and non corrosive ammos for 7.62x39

Newly-Deceased [Member]

10/2/2011 2:46:21 PM

I have a YHM 7.62 complete rifle coming next week and hope you guys can give me a clue on the 7.62 ammo ? I hear there's completely corrosive, corrosive primers only and then non corrosive altogether .Any tips are appreciated.Thanks

POLYTHENEPAM [Member]

10/2/2011 3:53:13 PM

The only corrosively primed cartridges currently imported is Yugoslavian mil surp AFAIK.
All commercial Russian cartridges are non-corrosive.
All Warsaw Pact and Chinese mil surp ammunition was corrosively primed. None is currently imported.

Newly-Deceased [Member]

10/2/2011 7:18:47 PM

So the steel cased Herters/Wolf is among the non corrosive ? And thanks for the tip.

POLYTHENEPAM [Member]

10/2/2011 8:08:38 PM

Originally Posted By Newly-Deceased:
So the steel cased Herters/Wolf is among the non corrosive ?

That ammunition is made in Russia. It's non-corrosive.

Zhukov [Moderator]

10/6/2011 11:30:44 AM

Originally Posted By POLYTHENEPAM:
The only corrosively primed cartridges currently imported is Yugoslavian mil surp AFAIK.
All commercial Russian cartridges are non-corrosive.
All Warsaw Pact and Chinese mil surp ammunition was corrosively primed. None is currently imported.

That pretty much sums it up.

The general rule of thumb to go by: Mil-surp from any Combloc country is corrosive. Any new production ammo (Wolf, Barnaul, WPA, Herter's, etc.) is NOT corrosive.