Please help identify the ammunition in the spam can

**KneverKnew** · 03-08-2025 07:04 PM

Help please. What kind of ammo? M-74?

**Sapper740** · 03-09-2025 06:02 AM

M74 is the Russian icon

5.45 X 39 round. Why the can is also stamped 7.62 is a puzzler.

**KneverKnew** · 03-09-2025 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by Sapper740

M74 is the Russian icon

5.45 X 39 round. Why the can is also stamped 7.62 is a puzzler.

Well that was unexpected. Thanks.

**Low & Slow** · 03-09-2025 11:21 PM

Definitely not 5.45.

**browningautorifle** · 03-10-2025 06:31 AM

That's 7.62 x 54R. Copper washed steel case, light bullet. Made at Novosibirsk.

Anyway, here you go. Have at 'er... Decoding Soviet Military Surplus Ammunition Labels

**Sapper740** · 03-10-2025 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by browningautorifle

That's 7.62 x 54R. Copper washed steel case, light bullet. Made at Novosibirsk.

Anyway, here you go. Have at 'er... Decoding Soviet Military Surplus Ammunition Labels

???????!

(I copied and pasted 'thank you' in Cyrillic and it came up question marks,)

**Low & Slow** · 03-26-2025 04:41 PM

Spasibo will do.

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