Sportsmans's Guide is crazy.
So I ordered 450 rounds of Yugoslavian 7.62x54r heavy ball the other day. This stuff right here: 15 Rds. 7.62x54r M30(j) 182 Gr. Ammo, Rifle Ammunition, Military/Surplus at Sportsman's Guide. Normally, this ammo is packed in 15 round boxes as pictured. Well, that is not what I received today!
Opened up the box and inside were 30 boxes (30x15=450), not as pictured and not traditional Yugo packaging. All cheap white boxes that I've seen before with repacked, filthy, picked off the warehouse floor Yugo stuff. I was about to be pissed.
Start going through the boxes which are obviously overloaded, opened one up and counted 18 shiny new rounds, all of the same year. I'm thinking maybe everything is ok until I pull the next box out and can plainly see gray colored cartridges inside, as in poly-coated steel. About to start cussing. Opened it up to find steel-cased, steel-core, green-tipped bullets, 18 of them. Green tip is commie for tracer.
In all I received 25 18-round boxes of Yugo heavy ball for 450 rounds. More or less what I ordered, PLUS 5 18-round boxes (90 total) of Hungarian or Polish Tracers!
Not endorsing SG or anything since the last time I ordered "Albanian brass-cased" x54r from them I got Russian steel. Not a big deal, ended up being as cheap if not a little cheaper than AIM.