I stopped by one of my local gun shops yesterday and was looking around. I noticed a bunch of boxes of surplus ammo sitting on a shelf marked 7.62x54R I asked to see it because I had never seen surplus ammo 54R in that type of box. Looking at it I knew the minute I saw it that it was not 54R ammo. The sales guy insisted it was and I told him it had no rim and it looked to be 8MM Mauser to me.

When I got home I looked it up on the web and I think the ammo is 7.92x57 Romanian, can someone confirm? I would like a box for my ammo collection but this shop wants $30.00 US for 20 rounds. Kind of a stiff price for me, yet I haven't seen this before.

Another question I have is the primers are marked in red, I'm guessing sealant, and there is a red band around the base of the bullet and case mouth. Is there a significance to either of the red marks or just simply sealant?

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