7.62x54r=========>7.62x25
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=650814
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=650814
Mosin owners rejoice! your ammo just got WAAAAYYY cheaper.
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azredhawk44
Moderator
Looks like it is only good for single-loading, and the chamber insert is ejected with each bolt stroke.
As-is, the Mosin's extractor is not designed to grasp a x25 case.
So... you pop out the steel chamber insert (hopefully there is no cosmoline left in that chamber or it ain't ever coming out), take a stick and poke out the brass x25 case from the chamber insert, put a new x25 cartridge in there, cycle the bolt with the chamber insert in place, and shoot again.
And... only at sub-100 yard targets with any reasonable similarity to sight picture or sight settings.
I'd just as soon get 10 of these:
http://www.lothar-walther.de/209.php
.22LR adapter, with short rifled barrel to impart velocity and spin sufficient to sub-50 yard marksmanship practice. With 10 of them, you can load entire stripper clips and practice running the rifle for real.
And, even cheaper than the x25 adapter, after factoring in the cost of your first 500 rounds of ammunition.
As-is, the Mosin's extractor is not designed to grasp a x25 case.
So... you pop out the steel chamber insert (hopefully there is no cosmoline left in that chamber or it ain't ever coming out), take a stick and poke out the brass x25 case from the chamber insert, put a new x25 cartridge in there, cycle the bolt with the chamber insert in place, and shoot again.
And... only at sub-100 yard targets with any reasonable similarity to sight picture or sight settings.
I'd just as soon get 10 of these:
http://www.lothar-walther.de/209.php
.22LR adapter, with short rifled barrel to impart velocity and spin sufficient to sub-50 yard marksmanship practice. With 10 of them, you can load entire stripper clips and practice running the rifle for real.
And, even cheaper than the x25 adapter, after factoring in the cost of your first 500 rounds of ammunition.
FrankenMauser
New member
Add the cost of two of the inserts (it won't last forever) to a case of 7.62x25, and you're at the same price of as 7.62x54R.
Buy the real ammo. Shoot the real ammo. If you can't afford it, shoot BBs. (7.62x54R is one of the cheapest cartridges you can shoot. If you can't afford it... you need to readdress your budget and priorities.)
Buy the real ammo. Shoot the real ammo. If you can't afford it, shoot BBs. (7.62x54R is one of the cheapest cartridges you can shoot. If you can't afford it... you need to readdress your budget and priorities.)
Ignition Override
New member
FrankenMauser:
Good points, and the surplus Yugo 8mm is almost the same price, .25/rd.
This is why I've bought over 3,000 rds, and am not done.
Along with x54R surplus, old 8mm appears to be the only other good value in full-power ammo (larger than 5.45 or 7.62x39), based on many current website reports.
X54R may remain the solitary good deal one day, whenever surplus 8mm starts to follow surplus .303 into near-oblivion.
Let's all hope that eastern Euro countries ignore the Brit/Euro organization which wants to pay them to destroy all of their old ammo and guns.
South Africa is just the latest to accept Euro tax money (or from the UN) to destroy all of their old (Lee-Enfield) rifles and ammo. Those socialist idiots
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They confuse bolt-action sporting rifles with automatic AKs (going to Third World war lords) or want to destroy all guns.
Good points, and the surplus Yugo 8mm is almost the same price, .25/rd.
This is why I've bought over 3,000 rds, and am not done.
Along with x54R surplus, old 8mm appears to be the only other good value in full-power ammo (larger than 5.45 or 7.62x39), based on many current website reports.
X54R may remain the solitary good deal one day, whenever surplus 8mm starts to follow surplus .303 into near-oblivion.
Let's all hope that eastern Euro countries ignore the Brit/Euro organization which wants to pay them to destroy all of their old ammo and guns.
South Africa is just the latest to accept Euro tax money (or from the UN) to destroy all of their old (Lee-Enfield) rifles and ammo. Those socialist idiots
.They confuse bolt-action sporting rifles with automatic AKs (going to Third World war lords) or want to destroy all guns.
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johnwilliamson062
Moderator
Azredhawk, where can one actually buy those?
NM, got it.
3425 Hutchinson Rd.
USA-GA 30040 Cumming
phone: 001 770 8899998
I called that number and got the security guard.
NM, got it.
3425 Hutchinson Rd.
USA-GA 30040 Cumming
phone: 001 770 8899998
I called that number and got the security guard.