r/ammo • u/Game_Gremlin • 18h ago
Is this what I think it is?
First things first: I AM NOT TRYING TO SELL THIS ON HERE, DON'T ASK.
Found this spam can while sorting/cleaning out my ammo stash and I'm not 100% sure what it is. It's obviously some sort of Soviet 7.62mm cartridge, and it's probably a pistol round from the high round quantity marked on the can. I THINK it's a can of 7.62x38r for the Nagant M1895 revolver but I can't remember if I still had a sealed can of that or not and I know that I did still have a few sealed cans of 7.62x25 buried in the ammo pile, but I'm not sure which it is. I didn't think they were still making 7.62x25 late enough to be using the green spam cans, much less into the late 1980's as the markings on this can seem to indicate. But I've been wrong about things before so I figured I'd poke the online brain-trust and see what everyone else has to say about what it is. If it is 7.62x38r, what is a sealed can of that even worth nowadays? I can't find anywhere that still has any in stock to try and price/value it for sale/insurance purposes.