7.62x54r ammo can identification

Please read the rules at the top of each forum. Is there a year on this? The rest I just wasted. Re: ammo can markings Post by desdem12 » Wed Jul 11, am 82 i think. Re: ammo can markings Post by desdem12 » Wed Jul 11, am has ct. No but it says somewhere. If there is rds in it it is likely 54R. The x39 has or so. LPS is code for light ball.

Not russian so i suspect that the cj is the type of case, copper wash maybe. Last edited by WeldonHunter on Wed Jul 11, am, edited 1 time in total. I fixed it. Crudely but it's fixed, lol. I'm no good with editing but it gets the point across. I found that earlier and thought there might be some problems with it but I knew you guys would give it a once over. Can someone help me read the crate and the cans information?

I thought the can said something like war reserve. I am having a hard time trying to decypher the crate markings. Likely a lot of sub-standard quality. In my view it was not ammo with expired shelf life which then got down graded because the markings apopear all to have been applied in the same way, style and with the same paint.

So likely it came like this from the factory. So the defects you have observed would make sense. The cartridge cases are the usual bimetallic cases, steel clad with "gilding metal". How old? The powder was manufactured in , the same year the cartridges were loaded. Manufactured where? The powder was manufactured in Kemerovsk, and the cartridges were assembled in Novosibirsk, if that matters to you.

Inside the wooden crate are two green metal "Spam Can" containers, as shown here. Resting on top is the included can opener. These are Russian military surplus, or more precisely, Soviet given their vintage. Let's start with the easy part. Like most Europeans, Russians use "," to indicate the decimal point. Two round cans go into one round case. As for the rest of the markings, here is what I have figured out with the help of the Russian-language Wikipedia and two U.

You may also want to ask Google to search for a DIA document from August, with explanations of headstamps and packaging for most if not all countries: "small-caliber ammunition identification guide" filetype:pdf. Realize that, of course, the Soviets used the Russian language's Cyrillic alphabet. But often, the Cyrillic only looks like a Latin one. Here is a quick guide to the Cyrillic alphabet. An added two-digit number would indicate a bullet with a pattern introduced in that year.

The rest means that it was manufactured in at factory This table is for Russian factories. Other countries of manufacture will have their own codes. The production year and factory number, 77 and , appear in the somewhat indistinct headstamp.

That's a modern Russian commercial Bear cartridge at left, and one of the rounds from this surplus case at right.