Surplus 7.62NATO
Since it’s damned near impossible to find a good deal on surplus 7.62NATO these days I thought I was onto something when I saw that SOG has some up for sale at $95.60/400 rounds so I placed a phone call to them to ask if they knew the country of origin.
The response, paraphrased, was: “No, we do not. Some customers that have bought it called back to tell us it’s Indian but we do not advertise it that way.”
Take a guess as to why customers would be calling back to inform them it’s Indian? Becuase Indian ammo is shit, that’s why.
Over the past 6 months or so, I forget exctly how long, I’ve been seeing people gripe that cheap 7.62NATO surplus ammo is drying up. I never paid much attention to it because a) I’ve only got one gun chambered in this around and b) it’s broken anyway. Where did it all go?
Well, it used to be that South African ammo was the best bang for the buck. Reasonably accurate from what I gather and within spec, unlike the Indian, so it wouldn’t destroy your firearm. What happened to it?
At first blush I just assumed that it was the same thing we’re seeing with 5.56NATO and 7.62×39mm: Surplus is low because it’s all going to the Global War on Terror.
Nope. That’s not what hapened.
The UN convinced South Africa to stop selling it. Yes, I’m aware that the article is now 8 years old. It took a while for the surplus ammo to actually dry up, I guess.
Now, I can understand the UN trying to restrict ammo and arms sales to the warring factions scattered across the continent of Africa; but to the US of A?