[69khz]

How on earth do I open the bulgarian 300rd tins? I'm pulling on the ring & it's not budging & I think it'll just snap off.

 

[69khz]

Great.. I pulled, & the ring came off.. on both cans..

Help, please

 

[Denny]

Vice grips on the end of the pull strip or tin snips could work. Maybe a BFH! Denny

 

[Shyquestor]

I agree with the vice grips. If you have one that is a long nose style, lock onto the end of the area that the ring was connected to and use the grips to roll off the metal seal like a sardine can. Don't cut yourself...that tin is sharp!

 

[69khz]

Vice grips on the end of the pull strip or tin snips could work. Maybe a BFH! Denny

I just hacked it open & ripped it open a piece at a time while praying I don't hit a primer.
I used pliers.. didn't roll like I thought it would,, had to rip pieces of tin off little by little

Sure is some smelly old blue paper, but nice shiny brass.

 

[Denny]

Glad you didn't use the hammer. You might check out the paper and the ammo wrappers...sometimes they used cut up documents (gov. papers?) for them. Denny

 

[ammolab]

Just grab the stub of that "pull off" tab with a pair of Needle nose pliers. Then Twist the pliers until you ROLL the tab all around the can.....BINGO it is open!

 

[Carguy714]

I found the true post war use for the bayonet from my 91/30. Seriously when I got my first spam can I had the bayonet handy and nothing else...worked like a dream!!!

 

[Guest]

Just grab the stub of that "pull off" tab with a pair of Needle nose pliers. Then Twist the pliers until you ROLL the tab all around the can.....BINGO it is open!

Then throw the Needle nose pliers away cuz you can't open them to remove the rolled tin.

 

[Spetznatz]

Glad you didn't use the hammer. You might check out the paper and the ammo wrappers...sometimes they used cut up documents (gov. papers?) for them. Denny

I had the same thing in the last batch that I bought.

 

[gun_nut_73]

On the Bulgarian tins that are plain unpainted steel with a ring, I too used a pair of vice grips and peeled the strip off a little at a time.

However, with the olive green cans with a tab, instead of a ring, the tab just broke off when I pulled on it, and I wound up using my angle grinder (with a wet towel around the can) to grind the corners. this left a clean, albeit sharp, edge.

 

[MTS2]

Sharp is the word.

People curse the ammo, but the Albanian can is the best, most useful of the cheap milsurp cans.