Czech 7.62x54R "silver tip" and corrosive prime?

[coyotejoe]

I just ordered a Romanian PSL "Dragunov look alike" and a case of Czech "silver tip" ammo. Can anyone tell me the bullet weight in good old fashion English grains? Is this ammo a good match to my Romanian PSL? I understand it is corrosive primed. What special cleaning steps are needed with corrosive primed ammo?
 Thanks in advance, all replies will be appreciated.

[TribReady]

Silver tip is 147gr.

Cleaning up after corrosive is simple.  Just clean as normal as soon as you're done at the range. Be srue to clean the bolt and bolt face well. 
You can "flush" the barrel with water or water/ammonia (Windex) mix while at the range, then clean at home.  I've done it both ways and prefer to just clean up well immediately after getting home from the range.  Besides, ammonia can discolor bluing if you spill some while flushing out the barrel.

The mosins that I had did like the czech silver tip.  It's good ammo, relatively clean, and shot pretty well for me.

[NickSS]

I am working on a case of the stuff right now and it shoots well in my Moisons.  In a semi auto you need to flush out the bore and the gas piston and cylinder with a bore cleaner that will kill or wash away the corrosive salts left by the priming.  I use  Ballistol and water mix.  I have used plain water as well it works fine.  Just remember clean it well and oil it after cleaning.

[myarmor]

All of my Mosins loved the silver tip loads too. But from what I remember they are Steel Core bullets.... not Steel Jackets.. either way.. just be careful and aware of whats behind your target.
Just my 2 cents.




-Aaron

[FTB1-SS]

The PSL shoots well with the 147-150 gr bullets (light ball) , try to stay away from the 178-184 gr heavy ball (Most yellow tip). the heavy ball is hard on the action.

[coyotejoe]

Thank you, I came across that information elsewhere but only after I had ordered 100 rounds of Sellier & Bellot 180 grain soft point. Things being as they are right now, I decided to pull the bullets and seat Hornady 150 grain .312" bullets over the original S&B powder charge. I was quite surprised when those 150's averaged 2921 fps! I can see where that powder charge under a 180 grain bullet would be pretty stout indeed! The Czech silver tips went 2875 fps.
 I've now tried out quite a few handloads and for some reason this rifle consistently shows higher velocities than predicted by the loading manuals. For example, with RL-15 and a 150 grain bullet one book shows a max of 48.2 grains doing 2800 fps and another shows 48.8 grains at 2550 fps. From my PSL 47.0 grains went 2909 fps. With W-760 powder one book shows a max of 56.2 grains for 2800 fps. My rifle gave 2853 fps with only 50.0 grains! I'm not complaining but it does seem odd.