7.62x54mmR Ammo Prices

The rimmed old warhorse that refuses to die. Adopted by Imperial Russia in 1891 which means this cartridge is older than the airplane and it is still going strong in Mosin-Nagants and Dragunov pattern rifles all over the planet. The rim looks archaic and shooters worry about it and then it just works anyway. There is a lesson in that somewhere.

Loads run 148 to 200 grain in surplus pattern ball and modern soft points. The spam can surplus that fueled a thousand backyards has mostly dried up. What remains prices higher than the old days but case buys still soften the blow considerably.