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Offline jcn59

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7.5 x 54 French ball
« on: November 29, 2007, 04:40:30 AM »
Does anyone know what this stuff sells for?     

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Re: 7.5 x 54 French ball
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2007, 11:27:52 PM »
New ammo is going for $.65 to $.80 a round. I haven't seen milsurp in while but the last I saw was de-linked and not too healthy looking. Couple with the fact that milsurp is probably Berdan primed I'd say it's worth considerably less.
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Re: 7.5 x 54 French ball
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2007, 02:41:54 PM »
I stayed away from the linked 7.5mm french ammo because its machine gun ammo, its a tad hotter.  The only other options we have is the 7,5mm brass or the Priv-partizan 7,5mm french ammo.  I've done both load new brass and stocked up on priv-partizan ammo too.
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Re: 7.5 x 54 French ball
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2007, 03:30:06 PM »
I shot some, but having nothing to compare it to, it seemed like normal ammo.    The ammo is very clean & dated 1969 with non-magnetic fmj bullets.  It wasn't dangerous when I shot it.  Nonetheless, most of us believe machine gun ammo is hotter than non-machine gun ammo, but I don't know how accurate that belief is. I never had reason to crono the linked ball.  It seemed to work good.   Mostly I pulled the bullets and powder & reloaded with H4895 & 150 soft points.

I tried using a Berdan depriming device so I could reload the military cases but that was a hassle so I gave up on that idea.   I eventually acquired some Graf brass which worked well so I never used up the ball.  I tried using necked up 6.5 Swede brass, & it worked, but the cases bulged too much when shot.  They did function okay, though.


I appreciate all your help.  Now I have an idea as to what I should get for it.
 
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Re: 7.5 x 54 French ball
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2007, 02:54:49 AM »
The priv-partizan ammo is boxer primed and can be reloaded many times.  This yugo brass is the best i have ever reloaded so far.  Grafts offers it as new brass too.
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Re: 7.5 x 54 French ball
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2007, 04:23:43 PM »
I think you will find the mg  ammo is not hotter but has heavy bullets so recoils more.I am pulling french lebel ammo and it has a 236 gr bullet and 44 gr french flake.
second PRIVI is Serbian.says so on the box.
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