All Steel 7.62X54r

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Prof Young

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So, I've got my Mosin and some all steel, copper coated surplus ammo. The bullets and the cases are steel, copper coated. I know the powder is corrosive, and I know I can't reload the cases. I know some indoor ranges aren't going to let me shoot the steel bullets. Is there any thing else I should know about shooting this ammo, I mean apart from the normal safety stuff?
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Prof Young
 
Yeah. Don't freak out when the case splits at the mouth. Sometimes well back into the body. Search here and on the 762x forum for pics. Freaked me out first time I shot. Turns out 40 year old steel milsurp just does that.

Also search for tips on cleaning. I use cheap window cleaner (without the additives) along with gun oil.

And get yourself a long cleaning rod. You'll either need to buy 2 kits, an extension section, or one of the solid long rods. If you have the carbine a standard kit rod will fit but not if you have the trusty rifle.

It's typically not the steel cases but the steel cores that indoor ranges don't like. At least the ones that aren't brass-only Nazis. You can find some non-steel core milsurp but it's not the cheap-spam-can variety.
 
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And the window cleaner, bizarre as it sounds, is common practice for dissolving the salts left behind by the corrosive primer. You can also home-make a dilution of household ammonia (2:1 or 3:1) that will do it. I just watch for sales at the Dollar Stores. The cheaper the better since it doesn't include lots of other chemicals that super-duper streak-assassin Windex and the like do.

Don't slop it around too much, but I fill a small plastic container with an inch, pull the bolt, and run a rod with patch up and down, drawing the solution up into the barrel. A quick wipe on the bolt face, then push dry cloths through to clean up. Your regular gun-oil on a patch, then another dry to finish it off.

Others say one or two soaked patches, followed by dry and oil, is all it takes.

Good luck. Mosins are the most fun you can have with your clothes on for $100 and $0.20 a pull.
 
All you need to clean after corrosive ammo is water.

The salts from the priming compound are dissolved and washed away by water. The reason Windex and the like work is because they are mostly water.
 
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