Vintage Russian Mil-surp Ammo Question

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Yes, you are correct, it is a soldered zinc-plated can and no signs of rust or having been opened. The metal does have a bit of white powder on it, understand its just zinc-oxide, rather common with these cans from what I'm told. I've only owned it for about 10-12 years, kept inside in conditioned space, but I have no idea how previous owner(s) kept it. I can only assume that the contents are still in the condition when they were placed there.

I'm still trying to verify if all of these cans from that era contained 300 rounds, and did they all come with original Russian stripper clips? I'm still tossing it around to open it up, see what's inside, keep a few packs of ammo for myself & sell the rest. But then again, I haven't fired any of my Mosins in about 8-10 years, so I may just need to sell it all. Decisions, decisions.....

The zinc cans come in 250, 300, and. 440 it depends on origin. Can yo take pictures of the top answer pull tabs ? I might be interested in buying it as well I don’t have any of those cans in my collection. In my non collecting days I would open ans shoot them, back then they were cheap and every where.