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    50's Brit milsurp MkVII ammo

    Don't buy any of the yellow box Brit milsurp from the 50's - such as what SOG is selling.

    It's click.. bang or click.. nothing. Rather dissapointing.
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    still not that happy with sog after my recent magazine debacle.

    helped a friend without internet access order some tok mags. they have mags pictured with the lanyard loops on the bottoms on the mags, and no indication that the items for sale were not as pictured. i ordered him 3. they came without the lanyard loops. so i had to be the one in the middle dealing with them over it. they said, "if you wanted the ones with the lnyard loops, you should have made a note requesting that". if they had the correct ones pictures, and no notations that they were available in any other configuration than what was shown, why the fuck would i put a notation in!?!?!?

    hope they make it right for you easier than they did for me. did you make a notation when you were checking out that you wanted the ammo to function properly?

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    That sucks. Does this kind of thing happen a lot with SOG?
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    I didn't even think there was any surplus .303 floating around anymore.

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    This is Brit manufacture - not Paki. It's on chargers, so not a total loss. It's origninal, cordite charged ammo. I guess it could be sold as collector ammo - yeah, that's the ticket... I'll put it on gunbroker as collector ammo only and sell for a good price.

    It is hard to find and many people don't know about buying from wholesalers - as weird as that seems to us here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by O.S.O.K. View Post
    This is Brit manufacture - not Paki. It's on chargers, so not a total loss. It's origninal, cordite charged ammo. I guess it could be sold as collector ammo - yeah, that's the ticket... I'll put it on gunbroker as collector ammo only and sell for a good price.

    It is hard to find and many people don't know about buying from wholesalers - as weird as that seems to us here.
    Yellow box and British, I should know that name but it escapes me. What's it say on the box? Considering it's 1950 I'm a little shocked it isn't reliable. Oh, oh I think I just remembered the name is it Kynoch?

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    I'm good, don't need any. Yugo, Greek, South African and German MEN 303 surplus

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    You're good for now but if you shoot it up, no replacements.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schuetzenman View Post
    You're good for now but if you shoot it up, no replacements.
    I'm 55 , it's a lifetime supply, I'd never get through all that.

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    That case of 303 Greek looks awful familiar.

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    Sure does, thanks. Thats will be the last I open.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan44 View Post
    Sure does, thanks. Thats will be the last I open.
    Still have the 5.45X39 Romanain ammo?

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    Yep, when the other forum went down, it seems interest dropped. Russian surplus shoots better then the Romanian stuff. I'm going to stick with Russian. So I'm making space and money to take to Louisville in Feb. There is a new production East German Luger that I have my eye on, and it ain't cheap.

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    When John dumped his ammo he gave me a deal on all his Barnaul,SB and Golden tiger 5.45.

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    I bought a bunch of 50's Brit mf'd .303 about 10 years ago but it's nitrocellulose and not cordite. All sur-fire and no click-bangs. It has a different projectile.......come to think of it, this may not be MkVII. I'll have to look again.

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    This might sound retarded


    Take this ammo and put it somewhere really warm 90*+ for a few days.

    Usually in the summertime in a car parked in the sunlight would work.



    I did this with a bunch of 50's Brit ammo that had the FMJ's pulled and replaced with SP bullets by Norma in nasty rotting red boxes. had a few hang-fire rounds BUT I put all the ammo in a ammo can and stuck it in the sun on a 95* day in my truck. No more hang-fire or duds.
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    I've noticed that when i shoot the Paki ammo in warm weather the hangfires are less noticeable. the only other stuff I've had hangfires in was WWII Aussie, but it wasn't that bad.

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    Schutz has it - Kynoch. I will try the warming thing and see if that affects it... I'd just like to get some fun range time with it... the brass is berdan.

    Or, I could sell it on gunbroker as collector ammo and say it's not for shooting... I bet I could sell it off there. It is afterall, the real deal.
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