Opening a Chinese AMMO CAN from 1970 

You just released the last known unpolluted Chinese air

Chinese Markings 00:15 Upper Left side of can: *56 式* ("Type 56") means that it is 7.62x39mm M43 Soviet ammo (adopted by China in 1956). 00:17 Upper Right side of the can: *7.62 普 (钢)* means "7.62mm bore, Universal [bullet], ([Copper-Clad] Steel [Case]; AKA Bimetallic)". It is a semi-armor-piercing bullet (lead bullet with a steel penetrator) and a copper-clad steel case. Since it is the standard round, it doesn't have a painted tip like the specialty rounds (Tracer, Armor-Piercing Incendiary, etc.) do. 00:24 Lower Left side of can: *0893-201* means it is Lot 893 from Factory 201. *8----70* means it was made in the 8th month (August), ##70 year (1970). Lower Right side of can: *2/1 樟 ??/69 25* means it is smokeless powder (樟 > "Camphor" > Smokeless Powder) with a tubular grain that has a 0.2mm-thick wall and 1 central perforation (artillery tubular powders have clusters of central perforations). The Batch number is the fraction after that: *??/69* , meaning Batch number ?? (obliterated number) made in 1969. The factory number of the powder mill looks to be "25". Packing label The piece of cardboard has markings giving the contents of the can and any lot information that could help with quality control. 04:50 Packing label (right side of the table): *7.62 普 (钢)* repeats the cartridge information from the can lid: caliber (7.62mm), type of bullet (Universal), and type of case (bimetallic [copper- clad steel]). There is a line of red text near the lower right edge of the cardboard: "201" is the factory number; it is followed by a string of Chinese pictograms that I can't make out. 04:54 Packing label (left side of the table): The column header *包裝* means "Packaged", *70年8月* on the line below it means "1970 year, 8th month" (August 1970). The pictograms in the column to the right of the text is probably the name of the person who packed or sealed the can. "No.4" might be the inspector's ID number. 06:22 Headstamp: *201* [12 o'clock] over *70* [6 o'clock] means it was made in 1970 by Factory 201.

Дайте этому мужику подшипник в упаковке - во будет повод удивляться !

You hit the nail on the head with what RU-vid would turn into

Ok opening the ammo box was just beautiful.

Let's get it out on a tray...Nice!

Yes I shot thousands of rounds of that back in the 90s.... it was 100% reliable..... it shot about 3 MoA in my SKS... I did try pulling a few of the bullets and replacing them with Hornady 123gr SP .311s... leaving powder etc intact. With the Hornady bullets the Sks shot just a fraction over 1 MoA..... although when you consider that the Hornadys cost more than 6 rounds of the milsurp ammo, it was for research only. Norinco ammo is quality stuff.... like their guns, nothing fancy but they always work.

God I love the old catalogs you showed. Makes me really miss the old days and wish I took advantage back in the day

“RU-vid won’t be around in 2 years” 😂😂

My mouth is WATERING seeing all of those list pages😲😲😲😲😲

there is something so soothing about opening a case of ammo old or new!😁

This brings back some fond memories. Thanks for sharing!

I remember those days. You could literally buy a SKS for $50. I can remember at our local gun store there would be a 50 gallon barrel filled with old wooden military rifles from around the world for less than $50 each. I got a 7.7 "Jap" Arisaka out of it one time for $30 that still had the mum on it. I wish I still had that old rifle.

Sweet. My grandpa left me several. Ive always wanted to open them but cant get myself too. Thanks for showing me its contents.

было так интересно смотреть...как открывали коробку...так умело...и разгружали ее...прям шедевр киноискусства! а годны ли патроны -- дело десятое! в общем...не зря я тупо сидел...и смотрел этот изыск по растрате времени зрителя!

Brought back some good memories. I remember getting ammo in those cans. It all shot great! I wish I had picked up the Mauser broomhandles and P-38's that were all over Shotgun news back in the 1980's.

The good old days. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Finally , an unboxing video that makes sense.

I always knew youtube would change, but it is people like you who give it the reason it was created for. Which is sharing interesting content. Thank you for sharing.

4 years later and still going strong

It's extra good because of the msg in the powder

When you said it's from 1970, I was thinking 30 years ago I. The back of my head. Hit me like a bullet when you said almost 50. Damn I'm Getting old

It brings back great memories of the Ventura Gun show I used to visit 5 times a year. Yep, guns and ammo were dirt cheap back then. I still have a case of that Chinese ammo which I haven't opened yet.

I wish I had some of those old gun magazines, I remember as a young man making my "wish lists". I think I am going to start working on getting some old newspaper ads, ad material, books and use those in my new gun room I am setting up. What a blast from the past, thanks for another great video!

The 8 year old Chinese kid who packed that ammo is a grandfather now!

wow, it is amazing, as a Chinese, I didn't even see a single round of these there. A little bit history behind it, in that era, all industrial materials like steel, copper, etc were firstly going military needs, even a good looking cabbage had to be given to the country. This is a true throwback, thank you for sharing this.

About 10 years ago a buddy of mine gave me a few hundred rounds of this exact same stuff, said his dad had a ton of it.

Even after you shoot every cartridge in that case, after half an hour you will want to shoot more again. 😂

In 1974 a friend of mine opened one of these and found ammo and 2 wooden handle hand grenades in one box we opened 2 more boxes and they were all ammo. The dates on the cans were from 1951.

Коробочки с оружием? Бля это же цинк с патронами, там нет ствола....

Back here watching this again. I love this Chinese 7.62x39mm! Steel core and powerful! I have a few cans stashed!

Happy to see that your RU-vid channel is still around.

The forbidden tin of spam

It was beautiful... like watching a 50 year old baby being born 😭

It's 2022, he actually foresaw what's RU-vid today, impressed.

That was a treat. Every round looks absolutely perfect. What a nice time capsule.

I love this different type of video. Harkens back to the old TFM days in a way. As always thanks for new content. *:)*

I used to go to gun shows, and buy 5000 rds of this stuff at a time, for as low as $200, then they banned the importation and of course, the prices started climbing. The Chinese ammo had steel cores, if I remember right, and was hard hitting.

@2:15 your forecast was quite correct, also, “the depressing stuff” that comment, REALLY got me 😂😂😅

Loved the video - goes to show that YT is still around and still relevant. Good to see videos like this coming up.

Thank you so much for showing the old ads! It really shows how much freedoms we've lost in California makes me mad but they we're cool non the less.

AWESOME! I am 36 but grew up in the late 80s and thru the 90s in my fathers gun shop. We would have stacks and stacks of these Crates flying out the doors. You could purchase a NORINCO or POLYTECH milled, heat treated, and chrome lined bore SKS or AK. the SKS was around 90 dollars with all accessories including bayonet in a shorty or full length. The AKs were about 100 bucks more. i think we sold the Ammo for 60-90 bucks. The GOOD OLE days

Four years later and RU-vid is still here. Even more amazingly, so am I.

Wow, beautiful ammo! Would really be unfortunate if it needed to be unpacked quickly though 😂

I remember salivating over Shotgun News when I was a teenager.

50 years ago, I refuse to believe the 70’s was that long ago

I have four of these but with a big can-opener key looking thing on them, two still in the wooden crate. 1953 or '56 if I remember. But I believe mine are all corrosive, steel case, steel core. I bought 1 crate of Romanian when I started shooting and got my CZ858, then two more of the Chinese stuff. I overestimated how much I'd go through by a lot, still working on the Romanian like a decade later.

Well, it just goes to show that those spam cans really do the job at preserving the ammo. I have a ton of spam cans that are less than ten years old, so I guess I can expect them to hold on for quite a while longer. 👍👍👍

Those were the good old days. I thought that they would never end. I wish I had the money I have now back then.

I remember when I bought my first China Sports SKS rifle back in the early 90's. For an extra 20 or 30 bucks he tossed in 500 rounds of this exact ammo. It was taken out of the can but was still wrapped in the waxed paper. Cost me less than 200 bucks for the whole setup with a polymer stock thrown in and a couple of extra magazines. Had to be '92 or '93 because the stupid AWB hadn't hit yet.

Took me back as well, Damn!! We must be around the same age, lol. Great vid, thanks for the memories.

Even here In the UK I bought my first gun through mail order , just sent my license of in the mail and it came back along with a rifle , a nice wee CZ .223. Used to love looking at those US ads in Guns and Ammo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 .

This is gun porn at its finest.... thanks

I bought a case of 7.62X54R 1200 round packed in 1958 shoots great hell it is a year older than me !

Well it's been two years and I still watched this video.

Minus opening the can wrong, the video was very satisfying. great info.

I remember the days this ammo was coming into the country by the boat load. Low priced and worked every time. I was buying 1100 round cases for less than $100.00 all the time.

7.62 ammo be like: Its been so long since I have seen the light.

always amazes me how difficult these military crates are to open...

When I opened a can of the Nagant revolver ammo, I took a flappy sanding wheel on a grinder to the crimp around the edge until the top came off in one piece. It makes cool wall art out in the shop.

Almost 50 and inside it still looks new and nice and dry

This was weirdly satisfying to watch. Thank you.

Wow! I would love to come across a find like this.

why does this guy talk like he has seen paradise 😂💀💀 near the end of the video plus the back ground music is getting me killed 🤣 6:20

I remember getting those flyers in the mail back in the 1980s when i was in the U.S. Air Force. Shotgun news was my favorite as well as the others. Thanks for the memories. Grate video.

No kidding. I remember in the 70's going into a surplus stores and there were just barrels full of surplus enfields and mausers. Makes me almost weep thinking about it now. lol

Good presentation...I opened a Chicom 1967 case 3 years back ..had more exterior wax on the pull wire line ...hard to open in a huff ....did not have any of the rice paper packs miscounted ( 20 per rice fold) or misfires . 720 rds per can...2 cans in a 1440 case . Headstamp number 1 over 67. Factory 1 and 201 are both still currently unknown locations ... Hot stuff

Opened a '68 chicom can in '92....great stuff👍

Glad you weren't under fire trying to open the case!!!

I remember the old ‘Shotgun News’! What I remembered most were the M1’s, K98’s and Enfields for just over $100.

It's 3 years later and this video is still around

I remember doing this with a 1969 can with my Dad back in the late 80's after buying an SKS for about $89

I remember $80 440rd spam cans of 7.62x54r, last time I bought one at the gun show its was $170

What a great treat my friend. It was really cool to see that. And to take us on your nostalgic journey was pretty awesome. Thanks!

The oldest ammo I’ve used was 8mm Mauser dated 1954, no issues with it. It was some of the last bulk surplus 8mm I’ve seen in Canada.

In 1999 I had a FFL curio and Relic firearms license it was so cool I had a Romanian SKS and a Chinese Norinco SKS sent to my home via UPS with 500 rounds of ammo

Enjoyed the video. If you have any more tins like this one with ammo you want to get a long steel rod to open them and put it through both loops at once and then pull. This way it does not slip out on you again. All the wire is, is a garrote for cans so both sides need pulled at once.

Yep, back in the day my ammo tests were done with wet packs of Shotgun News and Computer Shopper, I miss those days.

Hey Jeff…..it’s been 3 years and YT is still here….and so are YOU!!! I’m glad to say you was wrong this time. Lol. Good to see ya, Buddy!

Year 2022 looking back atcha! Man if you only knew back then how crappy things would get

Still as good as the day they were packed, this is quality

Idk why, but I love videos of opening old ammo cans Huge fan from Brazil btw!

RU-vid won't be around in 2 years and I'm only seeing this now 3 years later

5 years later and here I am. Looking at your video trying to see how to open my spam can of 7.62

Now its time to see some videos on the performance of these rounds that are as old as I am, geez that's getting old LOL

Wow! What a trip opening what could be called a Time Capsule. They packaging, markings & oh hell yeah, the quality is so different. It was ... haha beautiful

The soundtrack of "you only live twice" is a really nice touch!

First time the inside of that can had seen daylight in nearly 50 years. Pretty cool. That ammo would be worth a ton now.

You just opened up the peoples ammo can. Can you smell what Taofledermaus is cookin'

05:07 This ammo can contains 36 x 20-round paper packets (720 rounds). There are 2 ammo cans per plywood crate for a total of 1440 rounds. The crate has an average Gross Weight of 30 Kilograms (66.13 lbs.).

I almost expected you to say “let’s get this out onto a tray” after you got out the individually wrapped bags.

My Dad purchased guns and ammo from these types of magazines. Thank you! My Dad would have loved to have seen this video!👍🏾👏🏾

ahh shotgun news. I miss those days.

You are supposed to put the cleaning rod through both looops, put your feet against the box and pull towards yourself while pushing away with your legs. Opens extremely easy

I remember those amazing gun ads in the magazines. I wanted every one. If you ever go back in time please take me with you and we can clean up on firearms. Great video.

These videos are great. I never got into those rifles in those days as most people used bolt action rifles and gave negative feed back on rifles they had little to do with🇦🇺👍

Damn! Please open these videos with a warning sign. "This video contains music that might make you watch cult classics that are up to three hours long. Watch at your own risk!"

You should have been around when you could walk down Main Street USA go into a surplus store, buy the M1 Carbine in the window for $100, and walk out with no paperwork. That was the 60s before 1968. That year I bought my first 22 handgun, a Ruger Mark I Target for $57.50 in an adjacent state without incident, took it home and shot 22 LRs for $0.65 per box of 50.

You just played the music to 2 of my favourite films. And 1 of the best films ever made.

4:59 the obligatory finger cut from botching the opening of a metal crate like this.