Chinese ammo can

[gregsthe1]

Found this in my stash of ammo cans. Don't remember picking it up but I'm glad I did I'm smart enough to know that it is 7.62x39 and there are 550 rounds inside (I assume on stripper clips), but I can't tell what factory it was made at or what year it was made in from the rest of the numbers.

Can someone please decipher this for me?

[running-man]

Found this in my stash of ammo cans. Don't remember picking it up but I'm glad I did I'm smart enough to know that it is 7.62x39 and there are 550 rounds inside (I assume on stripper clips), but I can't tell what factory it was made at or what year it was made in from the rest of the numbers.

Can someone please decipher this for me?

Chinese markings typically run like this:

• The first number in the three number chain appears to be perhaps a crate number (or maybe a batch number, lot number, or other identifying number that seems to be different on each individual crate)
• The second number corresponds to the year of manufacture.
• The third number corresponds to the factory number.

Lot #64, made in 1975, factory 31 is how I'd read it.

I did some research on these way back in the Chinese SKS dating thread: http://sks-files.com/index.php?topic=360.msg10495#msg10495

[gregsthe1]

Thank you

[newchi]

way back in the day i made these to explain the markings.

[Luke2236]

way back in the day i made these to explain the markings.

Good to know, thanks!

[running-man]

way back in the day i made these to explain the markings.

Would you happen to have a set of photos showing the markings on the outside of the crate as well as showing the same markings on the individual headstamps?  I have various sets of photos I've collected from the net showing each of these, but I don't have anything that shows the crate -> tin -> headstamp marking consistency of a single batch of ammo.

[newchi]

First the SKS ammo.
I cant get a photo of the headstamp to show anything. 
And the painted over side shows through with flash so i included it.

[newchi]

wow, i just learn-ed something.
The head stamp is 71 over 68 and the mfg code is 71 over 68 

Ignore the dented primers, i got lazy and just degreased the small mosin parts instead of putting them in the oven, lesson learned.

[newchi]

This is the mosin ammo box.
Whats does the painted over side mean? i dont know.








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[newchi]

the sks ammo head stamp is 61 over 74, just like on the can, its almost like the numbers mean something.

[Greasemonkey]

the sks ammo head stamp is 61 over 74, just like on the can, its almost like the numbers mean something.

They do.... it was made at Factory 61 in '74. I have some x54r ammo from Factory 61, I want to say it's mid 60s dated.

[newchi]

found another i made
Bulgarian


and one of the same cans from before done differently.
At one point i think i wanted to do every can type and country, but attention span and all tha...