The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Vasily is too familiar with m43 bombs. He has seen and used dozens of different types of bombs.

According to conventional regulations, the shelf life of bullets stored in the cave without opening the box is about 15 years, and try not to exceed 20 years, but in fact, this standard cannot be strictly enforced, nor does it need to be strictly enforced.

The very few stock M43 bombs produced by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s are still usable, and Vasily has also used them.

However, the earliest production date of the Huaxia m43 bomb he had contacted was only 20 years old. It was a product sold in the mid-1970s on the American market. There were many leftover bombs exported in the 1980s in the owner’s manor. .

Those bullets are completely unaffected by time and are of very good quality, completely comparable to the copper shell bullets produced by American ammunition manufacturers.

As for the bullets originally produced in the Soviet Union, the green-painted steel shells were basically used in the 1970s. Seeking truth from the facts, they are of first-class quality, but just like Guan Xingquan’s several Chinese veterans who participated in the war against Vietnam said, the Soviet green shell The penetrating power of the bullet is a little bit worse.

The early copper-clad steel shell bullets produced by the Soviet Union more than 40 years ago can still be used. Can this Huaxia goods that have exceeded their shelf life?

Not only did Vasily check the goods, he also had a little bit of curiosity and aggressiveness at heart.

Curiosity kills the cat, but the innocence and curiosity don't matter, it can't do anything bad.

Vasili didn't know that after more than 20 years, in the North American market around 2015, there were still boxes of unopened China-made M43 bombs produced around 1970 on sale, and the quality was still outstanding!

Similarly, in the Middle East, there is still a market for the Soviet-made m43 bombs that are more than 60 years old and made in the 1950s, and they are still very popular!

The 15-year shelf life is just the number of years that a small number of ammunition-producing countries themselves sometimes use. No one outside pays attention to this.

Of course, for goods produced in the same country, this bullet should be as new as possible; in the international market, no matter which country it is produced, the production batches in the late 1980s will be better than the batches in the early 70s in the international market. expensive.

Except for special circumstances, such as the goods produced by China, because you will not see the batches of the last few years on the market, and the quality of the batches 20 years ago is absolutely reliable, so the bullets produced in the early 70s can sell well. The price.

In the mercenary circle, many people would rather spend ten times the price of bullets produced in the Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia, or Czechoslovakia in the 1970s than those produced in Egypt or Pakistan in the 1980s.

This is not naked discrimination. The quality is in vain. No mercenaries want to make fun of their lives.

The request made by Vasily is not harsh at all, just look for a bunch of people.

The warehouses are basically batch numbers produced in the 1970s. Everyone can understand the Arabic numerals on them: Lieutenant Colonel Baruku and others thought that way, and thought that Vasily and Leonid used the same way of judging.

They didn't know that both "arms dealers" could understand Chinese.

After a good meal, I finally found the box that was shipped in November 1965, and the other box had the batch number of May 1969.

This is out of the box.

The 65-year-old wooden ammunition box is well preserved. There is a clear specification on the outside of the ammunition box: 7.62x39 rifle bullets, a box of 1,440 rounds, and a weight of 29 kg.

After prying open, inside are two sealed boxes of galvanized iron, a box of 720 bullets.

The seal is intact, that is, the surface of the iron sheet is oxidized, but there is no rust. There is also a detailed production time mark on it. Even the abbreviation of the ammunition manufacturer is: Jin.

Seeing this, Vasily could judge that there should be nothing wrong with the bullet inside.

Leonid on one side saw the opening mechanism on the top of the galvanized iron box and said: "Fish means, this is the first time I have seen such an opening method."

Hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Baluku seemed to retrieve the scales, and smiled and said: "The packaging was like this before 70 years. The box opened by the double pull ring was only available after 71 years. At least we encountered all of them. so."

The pull ring, the first two on a box, can tear open the bullet box like a can.

But these two cans are not. It is a U-shaped steel wire welded into the surface of the tin box with tin or zinc. The wire head is made into two small circles, and there are two thin iron rods that are 56 cm long. On the top of the box.

The surface of the steel wire and iron rod was slightly corroded, but it looked firm. A soldier took one of the iron boxes out of the wooden box, and then inserted a thin iron rod into the small circle at one end of the steel wire.

Step on the Zizi with your foot, and hook the iron rod with the index and middle fingers of your right hand

Pulling slowly and hard, the iron sheet on the top side of the box is slowly torn apart, revealing a large paper label covered inside.

The label is marked with the names of the production workers and inspectors in the arsenal of this batch of ammunition. It also clearly states the production date and the type of bullet: copper-clad bullets.

Remove the inspection label paper, revealing the khaki paper bags neatly placed underneath, this is the last layer of packaging.

It is different from the flaky cardboard box used for the last layer of the m43 bombs manufactured in the Soviet Union~www.readwn.com~Huaxia Arsenal uses soft kraft paper.

The kraft paper was intact, Vasily took out a pack, and opened the kraft paper easily to reveal the copper-clad steel bullet shell inside

It's like just being made!

There is no need to open the other box. If the bullet in this state fails, then hell!

I opened the box of the 69 batch number again, and it was in the same state, which was great!

Lieutenant Colonel Baluku was very satisfied and confident with his cargo, and said with a smile: "Three, are you interested in going outside to try a few shots?"

Shameless, white-eyed wolf!

Vasily and Leonid certainly agreed.

When you arrived outside the cavern, there was no need to go to a shooting range. Just a sergeant made a call with a hand-cranked telephone at the mouth of the cavern. The voice was to tell the outside guard post in the same barracks not to make a fuss, and to test the gun here. .

Without a target, a soldier did not know where to get an old helmet and placed it at the foot of a hill about 100 meters away from the cave, almost the height of the chest.

This target is good, and it can be roughly determined whether these bullets are weak and penetrating.

Brand new five or six punches, one with a bayonet, the other without.

The two soldiers pressed four 30 rounds of live ammunition. After seeing the lieutenant colonel nodded slightly, they handed one of the guns and one magazine to Vasily.

The weapons that the African indigenous black buddies can use, they don’t need to be pretended to be unused.

Vasily picked up the gun and saw that the ruler was at the end of the tenon position. He held the gun in his left hand, hung up the magazine in his right hand "one top and one buckle", and pulled the gun to load it.

The speed of the machine is adjusted to single shot, and the gun is fired after aiming slightly.

"Bang, bang, bang" three shots, the helmet in the distance jumped three times in a row.

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