Is this 7n6 ammo?

[xxxleafybugxxx]

I just purchased a tin of what I'm 99% sure is 7n6, but would like to be 100% sure.
The headstamp reads 539 over 78.
Thanks

 

[5.56RifleGuy]

What was on the tin?

 

[xxxleafybugxxx]

5.45 rc NC
Then a bunch of other things I don't understand

 

[5.56RifleGuy]

Yes. I believe it is 7n6.

 

[big al hunter]

If you shoot some steel plate with the new ammo and some fmj lead core you will know for sure.

 

[xxxleafybugxxx]

It does look just like other pictures of 7n6.. including the tin cover. I just wanted to be absolutely sure. I supposed I could grind one down to see if the tip is hollow. I wasn't sure whether or not there was other milsurp 5.45 floating around I may have gotten a hold of. Like I said, I'm assuming its 7n6, but since it was never labled as such at the gun show, just labled as "russian surplus", I wanted to be sure.

 

[5.56RifleGuy]

Pull a bullet and cut it in half. That is what I did.

 

[Dfariswheel]

If it's military surplus and 5.45x39 it's 7N6-PS steel core corrosive ammo.

539 is a Soviet era arsenal in the Ukraine and the year made was 1978.

 

[wnycollector]

This pic has helped me on more than one occasion in sorting my surplus ammo stash.

 

[xxxleafybugxxx]

Well I did grind into one and the tip was in fact hollow. I'm guessing its 7n6