who here has wildcat the 7.62x39?

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something about the round makes me want to wildcat it. I haven't the foggiest idea how to do this...and I've never reloaded a round in my life, yet I want to do this.

I really want to play with the 9x39, see what it's like at heavier weights and lower weights (ie. with 9mm Luger bullets)...or how it performs with a .243 bullet, etc.

wondering what others may have done and played with. :D
 
I've been reading a bit on this lately, seems like everything has been done. Although it also seems like original 7.62 brass isn't used anymore, it's all commercial PPC, or .220 Russian stamped for the most part. Buddy at the range has a 20-220 Russian that peaked my interest.
 
Just WISH there was a source for fresh brass for that little Czech 1952 jobbie, their 7.62x45.

Less taper, more capacity. LOVE to neck one to a 7mm, use a fast twist with 120s.
 
This is what earned me my screen name. Back in the dim days of MY youth, I took some brass, 220gn bullets, and a few gns of Unique. Put them together, fired a few subsonic rounds, and went to the next meeting of The North Mountain Gun Club, announced my new "Wildcat" round. Man, did I learn about wildcatting rounds, then! Also got a short-term nickname.
Since then I have continued play with that round. Changing loads for various situations, etc. subsonic, heavy bear defense loads, etc. all performed great, esp., the 174gn RN Hornady bullets!
 
Round is perfect as is. Handloaded it rivals 30br and as such also 308, with much reduced recoil, excellent internal ballistics and perhaps much longer barrel life. I can see the purpose of opening it up to accept 9mm bullet, but for necking it down I think there are better choices. BR family already exsists with all tooling and components being off the shelf.
 
smellie said:
Just WISH there was a source for fresh brass for that little Czech 1952 jobbie, their 7.62x45.

Less taper, more capacity. LOVE to neck one to a 7mm, use a fast twist with 120s.
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I don't know if they export or not but if they do Buffalo Arms lists it. Out of stock right now and I suspect they are converted cases ("The Handloader's Manual of Cartridge Conversions" recommends using 220 Swift and "The Home Guide to Cartridge Conversions" by George Nonte uses 6.5 MS) but they're brand new and boxer primed. Price is currently US$104/100 which is not unreasonable for an otherwise unobtainable case.
 
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