Different 7.62 russian ammo

[tomg303]

Today at an auction I bought some 30rdns of 7.62 Russian ammo. They are kind of unique because they are "precision reloaded" milsurp rounds with sp 174gr bullets. They are done by the Finnish for interarmco and have date stamps from 1939 to 1943. They also have a price sticker that says $4.69. Non-corrosive berdan primed. Are they collectors items or should I shoot them up? Cool stuff.

 

[PabloJ]

From looking at the box it may well be past 'best if used by date. Likely loaded by Lapua. Their ammo is excellent.

 

[rcmodel]

Interarmsco was a company run by Sam Cummings between 1953 and sometime in the 90's.
I forget exactly when it folded last.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cummings

Cummings died in 1998, and his company pretty much died with him.

He could have been the poster boy for international arms dealers!
Or the basis for the movie Lord of War.

He supplied most of the weapons to both sides in every banana republic war over a 30 year span.

Your ammo dated 1939 to 1943 are reloads interarms made up on surplus WWII cases as those dates pre-date the Interarmsco company..

Collectable?
I don't know how many Interarms collectors there are, but probably not very many.

rc

 

[Sam1911]

Box does look a bit old. I'd guess the rounds were re-loaded sometime in the '70s or '80s. That would fit well with the price tag.

If they were for sale at that price in the '30s-'40s that'd be mighty expensive ammo. (Like about $4 a shot these days.)

 

[tomg303]

Well I got them for cheap so I'm happy just to shoot them. They look like quality ammo. Brass casing and sp bullets. I'll send some down range

 

[Lj1941]

Since they are Finnish, they are most likely for a. 308 bore and not .311-.312 used by the Soviets.I would just keep them as an oddity.

 

[airedaleman]

Children warning dates them no earlier than 1962.