Updated to 2026 (I'm 5 months late!).  All year 20 Type56's are now eligible to be classified as C&R based on the 50 year rule. 

Remember that the carbines must comply with note 3, especially the 'original military condition' rule for BATF to classify them as C&R.

I've started on the rectangle arsenal grid.  It's a slow slog at this point, but hopefully I will have some free time to be able to crank these out soon enough. 

Quote from: Greatguns on May 18, 2026, 11:13:20 AMAmmoseek is showing around $.55 per round plus for any current offering so, if you can buy it all @ $450/1k rnds you'd be doing fairly well. Still nowhere near the $2.50/box we used to pay.

Laugh, GG those were the days!  11 cents a round in the 2002-2004 timeframe.



Heck we were still paying only 20 cents a round when on special for Golden Tiger in 2016. The Russian ammo import ban has certainly decimated the 7.62x39 market.

Ammoseek is showing around $.55 per round plus for any current offering so, if you can buy it all @ $450/1k rnds you'd be doing fairly well. Still nowhere near the $2.50/box we used to pay.

A few years back, I noticed changes in the punch contained in the cleaning container. Now I cannot say what year that they were produced, but in my opinion, the less modified the earlier production. Here is a picture of the changes.

Agreed on buying the entire lot. 7.62x39 is difficult to find these days. I bought a boatload of nice PPU soft point boxer primed brass case from sgammo last year for under $0.50/round. It is now $0.70/round and will go up once the oil shock filters thorough the system.

That uly HP is great stuff btw. Exactly the same as 8m3 hollow point if I remember correctly. One of the few HP offerings in 7.62 that actually expands well and doesn't just strip the bimetal jacket off. 

The turks cut down a gazillion of these bayonets supplied to them by germans after WW1. Thats what this is  - a turk chop job.

Guy is asking $475 per thousand. Does not feel like such a deal. But I have not priced going rate of present.

All ammo pricing is nuts high right now.

On the 3k ammo, if the price is decent I'd buy it all, just going to get harder to find until sanctions and war/conflicts settle down.

Quote from: running-man on May 16, 2026, 11:34:07 PMNice on the zeroing!!!

What ammo did you use?  Some carbines prefer certain brands over others. I remember a member here that tried golden tiger 122 gr. FMJ and was getting massive fliers. They then changed over to brown bear and the fliers all went away. Was wild.

I miss buying chinese vietnam era surplus in 1100 rd crates for $78 delivered. That was some very good and accurate ammo. ATF in their dull wisdom declared it AP and guys have since treated it like high dollar AP  , ridiculous pricing.

I have almost 3k left of this russki made "hollow" nosed boat tailed bullet ammo. Got a guy local to me selling another 3k of that red army brand ball , I might have to buy all that too.