First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.

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ozone · #31 Post by **ozone** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:23 pm

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Ammo zone sells tracer rounds at £35 a hundred,
are these not the same as the ones you are talking about?

ozone

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Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:27 pm

They are 7.62x51 (NATO). We're looking for the freedom fighters friend 7.62x54R

ozone · #33 Post by **ozone** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:07 am

Charlotte the flyer wrote:They are 7.62x51 (NATO). We're looking for the freedom fighters friend 7.62x54R

Ah, OK then.

I now know what a milsurp 54R is

ozone

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bigfathairybiker · Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:05 pm

Simplyammo sells 7.62 bullets if you want to load your own.
Not many left though.

Mark

#35 Post by **meles meles** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:13 pm

Our trip to Bisley on Friday 7th.

Apparently it's going to be 300 mards in the morning and then the afternoon spent with The Clay People. We imagine they are some kind of lost tribe that inhabit the fringes of Stickledown or something. They might be a tad aggressive because we've been told to take our shotgun.

#36 Post by **snayperskaya** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:31 pm

bigfathairybiker wrote:Simplyammo sells 7.62 bullets if you want to load your own.
Not many left though.

Mark

they are 7.62/.308" aren't they?, 7.62x54r are .311".I have thought about reloading with .303 (also .311") tracer bullets but they are quite expensive and if they are old stock is there much of a guarantee they will light?.Does anyone shoot .308 from a .311 bore?, would I be right in thinking that accuracy wouldn't be up to much?.

#37 Post by **Blighty** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:16 pm

My local RFD sourced a few 91/38 carbines from Bulgaria recently. Bulgarian exporter is sitting on 12 million rounds of x54r. Bet there's a few cans of tracer mixed in with that lot. Apparently he's having trouble with obtaining an export licence.

#38 Post by **meles meles** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:21 pm

Hmmm, we wonder what PC Plod would say if we asked to increase our holding of x54R by, say, a million... ?

saddler · #39 Post by **saddler** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:23 pm

snayperskaya wrote:
bigfathairybiker wrote:Simplyammo sells 7.62 bullets if you want to load your own.
Not many left though.

Mark
they are 7.62/.308" aren't they?, 7.62x54r are .311".I have thought about reloading with .303 (also .311") tracer bullets but they are quite expensive and if they are old stock is there much of a guarantee they will light?.Does anyone shoot .308 from a .311 bore?, would I be right in thinking that accuracy wouldn't be up to much?.

Aye, tovarich....hence ANOTHER reason to go Finnish.
Quite a few of the Finn M-N rifles were made with .308 barrels...hence the very nice range of Lapua bullets available in
.308

bigfathairybiker · Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:45 pm

snayperskaya wrote:they are 7.62/.308" aren't they?, 7.62x54r are .311".

That's a bit of a weird thing... ( I'm new to this )...
Shouldn't 7.62mm = 7.62mm???
Or is it something to do with the rifling depth?

Actually, thinking about it I did measure one of the Prvi's at 7.92mm.

So why didn't they call it 7.92x54R?

Mark

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