The 7.62X39 mm cartridge - good or?

[Forestsight]

With 1200 rounds do I have to lock it up in the trunk in a lockable container? First major ammo purchase. No firearm in the trunk.

 

[NoBark]

When I was in Prauge at the CZ store, The CZ sales reps said not to use surplus ammo though the 7.62x39 527 Carbine. He said it has nothing to do with the corrosive part. He explained that surplus ammo bullets are not consistent in their size and greatly shorten the barrels life. The CZ 527 Carbine was intended to be a short range light to medium game hunting rifle in areas with thick forests or bushes, not a shoot all day plinker.

They even went as far to say you shouldn't even be using surplus ammo though the non-restricted CZ 858. I still do anyways. Don't really care since the gun can't really get any more inaccurate than what it is now. 3000 rounds though mine and I still get the same groups it got when it was new.

 

[Stevo]

With 1200 rounds do I have to lock it up in the trunk in a lockable container? First major ammo purchase. No firearm in the trunk.

No.

 

[Nisser17]

7.62x39 has been used in almost every major conflict for the past 50 years with devestating results. Thats say's it all.

 

[TimC]

When I was in Prauge at the CZ store, The CZ sales reps said not to use surplus ammo though the 7.62x39 527 Carbine. He said it has nothing to do with the corrosive part. He explained that surplus ammo bullets are not consistent in their size and greatly shorten the barrels life. The CZ 527 Carbine was intended to be a short range light to medium game hunting rifle in areas with thick forests or bushes, not a shoot all day plinker.

They even went as far to say you shouldn't even be using surplus ammo though the non-restricted CZ 858. I still do anyways. Don't really care since the gun can't really get any more inaccurate than what it is now. 3000 rounds though mine and I still get the same groups it got when it was new.

I'll agree with that!

 

[Travis Bickle]

An acquaintance of mine owns a Ruger bolt action chambered in the 7.62 x 39 M43 cartridge. He has a Redpoint optic of some sort on it.
We fired some quality Hornady ammunition through it and I managed a sub MOA group at just over 100 meters.
The main flaw in the design of the M43 was always it's loss of stability, consistency and accuracy out past 300 meters distance.
This was not a great deal of importance at the time as Soviet tactics never required much more distance than this for the type of use the caliber was designed for in the first place.
It's a potent little round in the right gun.

 

[saskcop]

Talk to any Vietnam vet and ask them if AK's were effective beyond 300 meters and they will tell you how effective they were. This 300 meters stuff I keep hearing is such BS. Sure the cartridge is not a long range performer, but in combat, you can keep their heads down way out there.

 

[infidel29]

absolutely. Its stopping power and ballistics are roughly equal to the .30-30 cartridge. I wouldnt want to get shot with it.

 

[infidel29]

I have to say, I'm concerned that some jackass "gangsta" who can't get his hands on a blackmarket pistol finds out about the SKS, gets his buddies all excited about it ("It's a retro AK, it's cool" or some idiocy) and then goes and do something really stupid (and lethal) with it. I don't think we're going to get a ban now... but a few more spectacular incidents and I won't be so confident.

edit: but this is really drifting off topic

nah.....SKS's weigh 9-10 lbs and have a really heavy trigger pull. Like, 15 lbs. Most of those young spindly ####ers couldnt use it properly. Plus it holds at most 10 rounds.

 

[mkrainc]

Here is a group I did on Friday at 25 yards with my Baikal IZH. I had loaded some Winchester brass with the powder and bullets pulled from some Czech surplus, and this was the result.