ORIGINAL: younggun308
Never seen that before, but I have fired a box of 7.62x39 ammo, from 1939, and it was French! I saw the empty cardboard box in the ammo case, and when I read it, I thought it was funny that 60-year old ammo shot so well as it did!
It said something like
"Metalfabrikken
(gibberish) 7.62x39 cartouche
Anul 1939"
It looked like any old cardboard box, I wonder if any of you guys know if it was worth anything?
You sure come up with some strange stuff! The Soviet 7.62X39mm round did not exist in 1939! It was developed in 1943 during the worst of the Great Patriotic War battles in the heartland of Russia, and was not issued (in the SKS, the first weapon ever chambered for it) until AFTER VE Day (8 May 1945).
In addition, I do not believe that cartridge was ever made in France! What did you shoot it in??
"Metalfabrikken" sound Swedish or Norwegian to me!