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Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:23 pm
by ozone
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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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Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:27 pm
by Charlotte the flyer
They are 7.62x51 (NATO). We're looking for the freedom fighters friend 7.62x54R
Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:07 am
by ozone
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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Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:05 pm
by bigfathairybiker
Simplyammo sells 7.62 bullets if you want to load your own.
Not many left though.
Mark
Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:13 pm
by meles meles
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.
Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:31 pm
by snayperskaya
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?.
Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:16 pm
by Blighty
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.
Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:21 pm
by meles meles
Hmmm, we wonder what PC Plod would say if we asked to increase our holding of x54R by, say, a million... ?
Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:23 pm
by saddler
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
Re: First use of milsurp 54R leads to short Nagant session.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:45 pm
by bigfathairybiker
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