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How easily available is cheap 7.62mm combloc?

Thinking of adding a variation, and as they take 2-3 months may as well add in stuff I might buy in the next 12 months.

Fancy one of those green tins full of ammo, how many rounds to get on ticket to buy a full tin.

BamBam wrote:How easily available is cheap 7.62mm combloc?

Thinking of adding a variation, and as they take 2-3 months may as well add in stuff I might buy in the next 12 months.

Fancy one of those green tins full of ammo, how many rounds to get on ticket to buy a full tin.

Its 700 rounds in a green tin. Haven't bought any in a while, but they're around. I'll have to check my normal supplier to see if any is around, the last batch I bought was some barnual from c&g.

Hannams are a big importer of this, plus x54R

Was cheap and available at the last Phoenix arms show, Scott at Caledonian is going to do a batch of 12" VZ58 in 7.62x39 if you fancy a fun rifle in that calibre.

Yes a fun rifle of some sort that will do well at the 100 and 200 range.

BamBam wrote:Yes a fun rifle of some sort that will do well at the 100 and 200 range.

One of Olegs Romanian AKM's would do the job ......... Fig11s at 400m are no problem.

"spam cans" contain 700 rounds, two cans to a crate, Hannams and Derek at Simply Ammo usually have it and haven't had any problems sourcing it, same goes for 54r.Nice when you open a can as you get a hiss of vintage Soviet air!.


1978-dated Soviet x39 loveliness

I'm also after something in 7.62x39 and added it at as my first variation. I asked for 500rnds but they only gave me 400 so spam cans are out which is a shame. Although I was always under the impression that each can held 440rnds? If a can is only 350 then happy days!

Need something to feed mind you. I'm sure straight pull AK's used to be fairly cheap, or when I was looking a couple of years ago, Now they seem to be harder to come by, and not cheap!

I have just sold a Ruger mini 30 in 7.62x39 to a dealer he paid my asking price no issues even paid for the rfd transfer.

I'm now looking to a 7.62mm AKM (straight pull WS-1.63) as I already have a free slot. They have gone up in the last year by about £100.

ArcofZen wrote:I'm also after something in 7.62x39 and added it at as my first variation. I asked for 500rnds but they only gave me 400 so spam cans are out which is a shame. Although I was always under the impression that each can held 440rnds? If a can is only 350 then happy days!

Need something to feed mind you. I'm sure straight pull AK's used to be fairly cheap, or when I was looking a couple of years ago, Now they seem to be harder to come by, and not cheap!

Spam cans....

7.62x39 = 700 rounds
7.62x54r = 440 rounds
5.45x39 = 1080 rounds

Can dimensions are the same for all, only the amount varies so one sized can/crate fits all.

The Romanian AKs as sold buy Oleg are as close as you can get to a Soviet-era AKM as they are manufactured at the RomArm/Cugir Arsenal in Romania on ex-Soviet Russian machines.Slap on some Arctic Birch laminate, an akm slant brake and a Bakelite mag and you've cracked it

saddler wrote:Hannams are a big importer of this, plus x54R

They import the stuff in green tins? Hannams as in Hannams West Yorkshire? I'm not too far from them. Thanks Saddler.