A lot of foreign countries do not have the monies,and resources to make the quality ammo like is made in the U.S. Especially the Slavic countries,there ammo is not of the highest grade. Thats why the price is so low,shoot it enjoy popping caps at that price and don,t worry about the brass splitting. Unless your headspace is bad,otherwise your not going to reload it anyway,just throw it away
I disagree.
With a surplus mauser and a correctly matched ammo, it will shoot real good, with 3 moa not being difficult to achieve. I have a Turk and a 98/22 that will shoot the cheapo turk surplus ammo much tighter yet. Yugoslavian 8mm ammo is some very good stuff and albanian and Czech 7.62x54R is better accuracywise than anything put out by remington or winchester. Remember that Czechoslovakia was the foremost small arms producer in the entire world for s stint between WWI and through WWII- this is why it was critical for the Germans to capture the Sudentenland (the heavily industrialized portion of Czechoslovakia) before they could even consider bigger fish like Poland and France.
A lot of the surplus ammo coming from Europe is just as good if not better than a lot of the US made surplus M2 ball ammo- some of which is complete junk. The bad ammo coming from Europe tends to be machinegun ammo that's loaded hotter and wasn't meant for rifles in the first place, it will still shoot in rifles, but the accuracy won't be as good and some slpit cases will happen.