Author Topic: Hotshot ammo (Read 1021 times)

S.S. · « **on:** January 04, 2004, 04:09:35 PM »

Hot-Shot Ammo -----

Saw in the shotgun news that they are now making
7.62x38 (Nagant Revolver) ammo.
about $15.00 a box for 100 gr. wadcutters.
Fiocchi ammo is about $35.00 per box!
My Nagant is about to start eating more often!
If any of you folks own one you might ought to
"Stock Up" while it's cheap!

1911crazy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 06, 2004, 02:38:05 AM »

Your right on!! About buying the ammo and the stockup part if we see something we use and its a rare find or a great buy stock up!!! I try to buy ten boxes at a time I did it with the 7mm mauser, 6.5x55 swede and the 7.62x25 Tokarev. I was lucky enough to get quite a bit of Sellier & Bellot before CheaperThanDirt ran out of it. I heard the 6.5 swede in Igman Ammo is just as good in accuracy too.(almost) I just broke out my reloading stuff lastnite and I started checking out the prices of bullets WOW!! some prices have doubled on components. I may just buy cheap ammo for plinking paper and just reload for hunting. I went shooting handguns the other day and I found some of my reloads from '78 from my 44mag. they all fired and accurate too. I guess our reloads have a pretty long shelf life? BigBill

Robert357 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2004, 06:57:44 PM »

I purchased a box of Hotshot ammo for my MN 7.62x54R Russian this past weekend at a gun show. It was $7.75/box, about twice the cost of the cheap stuff. My 7.62x54R is boxer primed, non-corrosive, and brass. That was the good news. The primer pockets were sealed by a brass lip around the primer.

After firing I was able to remove the primer using the standard lee die, with the friction fit that protects the decapping pin from breaking. I reamed them out with a case trimmer reamer, but needed to go back with a drill bit of the right size to clean out the primer pocket enough so that I could seat the primers easily.

The cases after being trimmed by a lee case trimmer, are much bigger inside than same length Winchester 7.62x54 cases.

They are imported by Century Arms and manufactured in Boznia Hertogavenia (sp?

). At the range it show very close to the Winchester 180 grain FMJ.

At the previous gunshow I attended I was able to purchase either S&B or Winchester brass for about $9.00 to $9.50 per box of 20. I will see how they work, but had I seen some Winchester reloadable meteric ammo, I would have purchased it instead.

1911crazy · « **Reply #3 on:** January 08, 2004, 02:20:07 AM »

Quote from: Robert357

I purchased a box of Hotshot ammo for my MN 7.62x54R Russian this past weekend at a gun show. It was $7.75/box, about twice the cost of the cheap stuff. My 7.62x54R is boxer primed, non-corrosive, and brass. That was the good news. The primer pockets were sealed by a brass lip around the primer.

After firing I was able to remove the primer using the standard lee die, with the friction fit that protects the decapping pin from breaking. I reamed them out with a case trimmer reamer, but needed to go back with a drill bit of the right size to clean out the primer pocket enough so that I could seat the primers easily.

The cases after being trimmed by a lee case trimmer, are much bigger inside than same length Winchester 7.62x54 cases.

They are imported by Century Arms and manufactured in Boznia Hertogavenia (sp?). At the range it show very close to the Winchester 180 grain FMJ.

At the previous gunshow I attended I was able to purchase either S&B or Winchester brass for about $9.00 to $9.50 per box of 20. I will see how they work, but had I seen some Winchester reloadable meteric ammo, I would have purchased it instead.

I have heard that the "winchester metric ammo" is actually "S&B" ammo in a winchester box. Its funny how years a go you couldn't buy a box of 7.62x54 ammo except for norma($30) when the surplus FMJ all dried up along with the 7.62x39 too. And if we could find it, it was thru the roof on the prices, now the market is so flooded with all kinds of this ammo its just silly. I guess everyone is getting on the band wagon I wish they would go a step further and produce all military calibers too. BigBill

Robert357 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 08, 2004, 06:38:57 PM »

>>I wish they would go a step further and produce all
>>military calibers too. BigBill

I have a friend who's dad has to trophy WWII Arkisaka rifles on in 6.7 and one in 7.7. At the gunshows, I look for ammo for him so he can just try them out. As you said, there is no surplus ammo and the Norma stuff is way too expensive. I keep looking for some cheap brass to load a few for him, but no luck so far.

I agree and wish there would be more factory stuff out their.

With the MN 1891/30, M-38 & M44 all being imported in big numbers, I think that there is a "critical mass" that has finally resulted in factories getting interested in selling for this 7.62x54 R round.

1911crazy · « **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2004, 01:16:42 AM »

When I bought my mosin M39 7.62x54 I also purchased a box of norma sp hunting ammo If I remember correctly back then it was $30 and I still have it.(a full box) Now there is imported russian wolf or barnaul for $5 to $7 a box and its good accurate stuff too. BigBill