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Offline bdub

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well performing 7.62X39 round
« on: July 10, 2011, 03:19:12 PM »
Any suggestions?  Brands, SP, JSP, ?? etc...


Thanks.
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Re: well performing 7.62X39 round
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2011, 04:31:24 AM »
     When not shooting my reloads I use the remington 125 sp and thats the round I was using to gain a sorce of brass for reloading HTH  Jim
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Re: well performing 7.62X39 round
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2011, 03:46:14 PM »
+1 for the Remingtons factory stuff
I've also had good luck with 110 gr Barnes X bullets over a load of IMR 4227 handloads.

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Re: well performing 7.62X39 round
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2011, 05:57:54 PM »
It doesn't exist unless you reload.  My neice did a science project of all things on this very topic last year.  The science teacher was all over the project and she won 2nd place for the school. I think her research paper was to blame for that. I wish I still had the pictures.  She tried Wolf, Brown Bear, Silver Bear, and Privi Partizan, and Remington Corelokts. She fired ten rounds of each to lower any variables in construction.  All of them separated when shot in water jugs and wet newspaper. The lead centers exploded to powder and very tiny fragments. The Brown Bear held the greatest weight retention as I recall, but it was only about 1/3 of the weight of the original bullet.  There were no pretty mushroomed bullets like advertised. The only one she didn't try was the federal and that was because I just couldn't order them anywhere at the time.
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Re: well performing 7.62X39 round
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2011, 03:31:10 AM »
Privi Partizan has both 125 grain round nose soft point and Hornady SST load.

Sellier & Bellot has a 125 jacketed semi-soft point.

Corbon has a 150 grain "Hunter" load with a  jacketed soft point.

Double-tap loads the 123 grain Barnes TSX.

Winchester, Federal and others have hunting loads as well.

Check out Midway USA to get an idea of what's out there.  They list quite a few appropriate loads for deer.  Most of them a right in the power range (or just a little less) of a 125 grain reduced recoil .308 Winchester load.  They will all cleanly take deer at 200 yards.

Good hunting.

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Re: well performing 7.62X39 round
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2011, 05:04:38 PM »
The Corbon and the Privi Partizan with the SST bullets were not tested.  Neither was S&B or Double Tap.  I used what I had on hand in cheap ammo.  I guess my point is skip the cheap stuff.  The plain Privi Partizan, Brown/Silver/Wolf stuff just sucks when it comes to bullets.
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Re: well performing 7.62X39 round
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2011, 05:36:00 PM »
I have no experience with soft points in the 7.62x39, but for what it is worth, I know a guy up in Maine who hunts with an SKS, and has taken a fair number of big deer.  He uses the Privi brand with soft points (I am not sure which bullet), and he has good luck, with no bullet horror stories.  I do know that back in the old days, before bonded core bullets, cup and core separation was common, and a lot of deer still died.  I just wouldn't over match the round to anything bigger then deer unless you were to handload a premium bullet.
 
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Re: well performing 7.62X39 round
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2011, 04:11:59 PM »
What shocked me is that the remington corelokts separated too.  I thought out of all the ammo tested, they would hold together. I was disappointed that something advertised with a locke core would separate in two different calibers with multiple rounds fired.  I don't know if it was the media we used but all them came apart.  I shot some 30-30 corelokts and they did the same thing. I have yet to find a pretty mushroomed bullet in cheap ammo.
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Re: well performing 7.62X39 round
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2011, 04:55:29 PM »
For my little Remington mini Mauser, the Winchester 123gr. sp. groups the best. As good as any of my reloads.
That said the Privi, S&B, Fiochi, Federal, Remington have all performed well on hogs and deer. If  under 200 yards is expected I carry the 7.62x39 almost every time.

I just bought another case of the Winchester load last weekend.

Now, the Wolf, Silver Bear, Brown Bear, in other words the Russian ammo performed very badly. Unless a major bone was struck they just seemed o pencil thru. Exits were all very small.
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