Zeroed 2 inches high at 100 yards, it will strike about 3.5 inches low at 200 yards. The 125-grain Sierra bullet was the winner again at 2,245 fps with 100-yard groups averaging. With the deer load in the box we started on a lighter bullet load for varmints. The Speer 150-grain load was just a trifle slower, and groups averaged 1.3 inches but did not hold up as well in the wet paper. We tested this load in wet paper at 100 yards where the impact velocity was 2,029 fps, and the bullet showed good expansion and weight retention. We found a slightly compressed charge of 25.5 grains of Reloder 7 produced 2,222 fps out of the short 18.5-inch barrel with the 155-grain Sierra bullet. (Most reloading die manufacturers offer both. 311-inch barrel, just don’t expect sub-MOA groups. Some 7.62x39 bores like those from Ruger will measure. It varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. If you pull the bullet from a 7.62x39 cartridge and measure the diameter, it will be somewhere between. 2999994 inch, which for all practical purposes is. Multiply 7.62 millimeters by the conversion factor listed in the Speer Rifle & Pistol Reloading Manual 13 and you get. We also wanted this low-recoil round to be inexpensive to produce, providing ammunition for practice and training new shooters. And, we wanted to develop a super-accurate, low-velocity, cast bullet load that could be used for squirrels and turkeys. We hoped to find an accurate varmint load suitable for ground hogs, coyotes and fox. We wanted a deer-hunting load, something that would offer ballistics similar to the 150-grain. Our goal was to produce three loads with different uses in mind for each. Want to help with the load work?” Like a lawyer, he already knew the answer to that question or he would not have asked it. “I want to use it on everything from fox squirrels to whitetails. I’d all but forgotten that when a friend called not too long ago and told me he had purchased one of the cute little rifles. However, when CZ offered its Model 527 carbine in this chambering, I considered experimenting with it. My interest in the 7.62 has been only marginal since I attended an OPFOR (opposing force) weapons class in the service. Though most often considered a fun cartridge the 7.62x39Ĭan be a diverse hunting round – especially for young or recoil Even though most Americans were first introduced to it from the bullet end during the Vietnam War, it has become at least moderately popular here in the States. Rarely considered to have a sundry of uses, this Russian military cartridge will surprise you with its diversity, especially in a bolt rifle where it’s not required to operate the action. The 7.62x39, made famous by Mikhail Kalashnikov, who designed the AK-47, is a good example. If you were to examine in detail what each cartridge can offer the shooter or hunter, you might find some things you’ve overlooked. The bullets are 1.575 long!ĬOAL 2.128 approx (slight variances in length of 5-10 thousandths or so)ĩ.0 817, 910, 844 SD 47.8 (not sure what happened here)ġ0.9 and 11.2 wouldn’t chamber due to compression of loadīCA 7.62 x 39 16” Govt profile upper Omega canġ2.Author: Richard Mann / Wolfe Publishing Co. 308 bullet sizing die, they chambered fine until filled with 10.9 gr and up of A1680. Second, once the bullets were resized to 0.3080, using a Lee. Follow Up on Hornady 255 gr Sub-X bullets in 300 Blkįirst, the original pulled bullet (from Hornady 255 gr Sub-X 7.62 x 39) at 0.3105 stretched the Starline once fired brassĪnd would not chamber completely with the exception of one round with 9.0 gr A1680 and recorded 828 fps.
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