What we're looking at are 30 varieties of 7.62x39
Different ammunition out of my collection that I've amassed over the years
There are a lot of lot of variables with 7.62x39 ammo and Kalashnikovs in general, the more I learn about them the more I see that
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I've got 30 of them out here as I've gone through the collection and pulled out a lot of my duplicates things that I acquired along the way because I knew I would want to trade them or potentially sell them to help pay for what I've already have into the collection financially and then maybe pay for some new stuff
I went through those boxes and found the stuff that I have duplicates of to add to this group and
I've assembled 30 separate varieties here
Next we will get into that what they are, including Chinese, Czechoslovakian, German, Russian & smaller countries
I've always found ammo to be a fairly inexpensive thing to collect
it is also practical, the ammo can be used if needed
But i also have a lot of fun collecting and the AK-47 is very prolific platform.
Its been around for a long time and a lot of countries and that means there's been a lot of ammunition for it and and a lot of variety of ammunition
This 30-round Ammo Collection runs the spectrum from wooden projectiles to the original .. literally some of the original, m43 mild steel core AK47 Projectiles, to the more modern M67. The collection includes both hollow-point tracer
we've got the every different type of metal case, from over two dozen manufacturers
the 7.62x39 primers are different colors, from lacquer, copper wash and lots of different colors our projectiles
standard brass with the annealing
standard brass
brown lacquer
copper wash
nickel
We have these loaded onto stripper clips , & These are three different types of stripper clips
Countries Included
Russia
China
Germany
Yugoslavia
Hungry
United States
Some country I can't tell because it's all squiggly lines
Finland
I'm probably missing some
The Original M43 projectile is a boat tail bullet
- that has the mild-steel core
The M67 projectile is solid lead
- with no steel core
Projectiles:
M43 (mild steel core)
M67 (solid lead )
Blank (no projectile)
Hollow Point
Led Nose / Copper Jacket
Tracer
Plastic Projectile
Wooden
the Three Stripper Clips (Chinese)
- have three different stamps on them
- one of them just says ‘China’ which I guess would be an import
- one is marked ‘351’ with a circle around it
- one is marked ‘31’ without a circle
The concept for this collection is to be to expose people that aren't aware of collecting to one of the reasons it's I find it interesting to collect
the spam can patches are some we made in 2014, our 7.62x39 spam can patch is no longer available, but we do have new designs in stock of different Spam Cans, we have 6 Spam Can designs now
I'll have to start somewhere and I honestly don't remember what the earliest sample is on the table so I'm going to start with the most recent acquisition
711 Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant
- Russian steel case
- steel core so this is the m43
- the original factory Soviet ammo that was imported here commercially
- this is one of the boxes I got from my good friend Martin Ivie (who wrote the book on Kalashnikov bayonets) – from SAR Show 2015
- this is what the commercial box look like in the early days of 7.62x39 Russian ammo importation and that was pre 94 so before the restriction on semiautos or mild steel core projectiles
Wolf, Tula
- Russian, Tula factory
- and that's the box and I'll try to keep these is
Tula
- Tula factory
- marked ‘TulAmmo’
- so this one's more modern
- steel with a clear lacquer
# 17 – Barnaul Machine Tool Plant
- with kind of a nondescript commercial packaging
- head stamp is
# 3 – Ulyanovsk Machinery Plant
- factory mark 3
- 1995 next up is some
711 Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant
- marked with its factory mark
- and 99
- looks commercial
Chinese
- steel core
- a crude box so
- i'm guessing fairly early because of steel core
- some of the earliest boxes, it's super faded (so I'm not sure what color it started out )
Chinese
- factory 61 and 1992
Wolf
- 7.62x39
Chinese factory 351
- china sports in maroon box
- 1993
Chinese factory 31
- 1994
- black and white box of china sport
- it's the old Norinco logo black and white this is one of my favorite Chinese boxes
- $15 bucks even back in the day so i don't know when that price tag looks old but that's a huge price for back in
Chinese factory 71
- 1991
- chocolate brown lacquered
Chinese factory 351
- Blue box really old
- lead core
- this isn't super old
- non norinco
- it says Jing and so I don't know it is but it's copper washed and it says
Chinese factory 31
- 1992
Chinese factory 31
- 1994
- yellow box
- steel case
- steel core
- I suspect this must have been right after the 94 ban
Chinese factory 81
- from 1975
- the first non-standard projectile, non-standard round in the this instant collection
- a dummy round (you tell by the like indentations around it and the lack of a primer)
Chinese factory 71
- 1993
- chocolate lacquer
Czechoslovakian
- kind of crappy boxes
- sloppy, clear lacquer
- almost a shine to their projectiles
Two are Unknown Origin
- with squiggly lines
- the projectile it's a green tip (green tracers)
- you get two that are different from each other
German
- from blister packs
- plastic bullets
German
- Blank
- they come in blister packs of 10
- head stamp 05
- 1986
Yugoslavian
- blank
- clear lacquer instead of the
Zombie Max
- Head stamp HMC
- Glowing green tip
Third Stripper Clip
- stamped 31
# 17 – Barnaul Machine Tool Plant
- brass
- soft lead tip
Lapua
- Wooden Projectiles
- Marked M43
- Made in Finland
- wooden bullet with blue dye
- head stamp is PT
- 1982
Yugoslavian
- 1980
- From those green ammo with the hinges
- brass
-w/ orange sealant
MF s
- Made in Hungry
- MF s is the other shape and I guess that's
- brass
- headstamp 7.62x39
Barnaul
- Brown Bear
- full metal jacket
- brown lacquered case
Tula
- discreet packaging
- hollow-point
- lacquer
711 Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant
- hunting specs
- hollow-point
- light color lacquer
Lili logo ?
with 7.62x39
MF
- from barnaul, Russia
- nickel case
- clear lacquer
Winchester
- 7.62x39
- these are supplied to the US government for testing and training
- I was able to procure a couple of these boxes from the government
- made for our guys who are doing weapons familiarization type of training with foreign weapons
So that brings us to Three 10-round Stripper Clips with lots of different color variety, different projectiles, a variety of productions lots, different countries of origin, and different dates of manufacture
I hope this is an interesting starter collection for somebody
decent kickstart into a clash 7.62x39 and Kalashnikov ammo collection