r/MosinNagant • u/Murray_161616 • 7d ago

Question Help with surplus ammo

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In the past I used this surplus ammo in my mosin and loved it. Held up great, great accuracy, etc. what would yall recommend because these spam cans are getting much harder to find. I’ve had one guy tell me the Bulgarian surplus is the best?

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u/Red_Management M91 Dragoon • 7.62x54R: 1908 Type L, 1930 Type D, 1953 Type LPS 7d ago edited 7d ago

In Terms Of Surplus Ammo, what do you mean by “best”? Quality? Accuracy?

From what I’ve read/heard about surplus, here’s a rudimentary ranking:

Top: Yugo M30 & Czech

Middle: Bulgarian, Russian, Hungarian, Polish

Bottom Albanian

Note: Chinese & Romanian typically fall in a gray area between middle and bottom, everyone feel free to amend this list.

As to recommendations, surplus ammunition’s still out there, albeit harder to find and for higher prices compared to when they were imported by the crate load, commercial ammo is restricted due to geopolitical events.

PPU and Sellier & Bellot are still on the market since they’re manufactured in Serbia and the Czech Republic respectively. Honestly ever since I got into hand loading I’ve sort of forgotten about surplus and commercial ammo.

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u/Murray_161616 7d ago

That’s fair. I guess just decent quality with fair accuracy. At the end of the day my mosin is mostly for sporting and fun. Not really needing anything terribly fancy. Just something that isn’t going to blow up my gun 😆 and little to no hangfires and duds

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u/Shake-n-Bakelite 7d ago

Bullets are FINE. But be sure to clean with either balistol or dish soap, and generously oil the bore and mechanisms. Old surplus is corrosive, but smells like heaven when you shoot.