manila boy
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Just curious.
Anyone hunt with a 7.62 x 39?
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sneeky_sniper
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Yep, when I was in high school. I had a Norinco SKS that I mounted a scope on. I killed dozens of hogs, several deer, a turkey, and a few other critters. I never took it calling. But I had a blue tick hound that treed everything that he could. That SKS will darn sure knock a coon out of a tree!
Ballistics wise it is very similar to a .30-30
Ballistics wise it is very similar to a .30-30
sneeky_sniper
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And welcome to the board, manila boy
Like your sig line.
Like your sig line.
RonO.
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I haven't yet but, I will be putting an AR with a 7.62x39 upper in the hands of a first year hunter this fall for deer. I have always given the cartridge short shrift but this upper is from one of the sponsors on PM, Kies Custom, and it shoots like a house afire. With an EoTech on top it looks cool, shoots really well and will take deer at 100 yards, everything a young hunter is looking for.
bluealtered
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I'll wade in here since i just got back into using a open sight 7.62x39 saiga and used to shoot a sks years ago. There isn't any reason that cartridge won't take coyotes at 300yds or better if your up to it.
Deer and elk are taken in this area every year with it. I have gotten my 100yd groups down to 1.5" from a open rest on the bench, something i was never able to do with a 30-30 even when i was young and had good eyesight.
Even though i have a few very good long range rifles to use and plenty of ar's, i had forgotten how much fun it is to use a rifle that you really don't care about if it gets beat up. I would buy all the cheap ammo you can and go shoot the crap out of it.
Deer and elk are taken in this area every year with it. I have gotten my 100yd groups down to 1.5" from a open rest on the bench, something i was never able to do with a 30-30 even when i was young and had good eyesight.
Even though i have a few very good long range rifles to use and plenty of ar's, i had forgotten how much fun it is to use a rifle that you really don't care about if it gets beat up. I would buy all the cheap ammo you can and go shoot the crap out of it.
coleridge
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I think most people think SKS or AK when they think 7.62x39. However, there are some really nice bolt guns out there in this chambering... just most are across the BIG pond. I do know that ruger produced a M77 in that chambering that was decent with handloaded ammo.
Lapua make brass for the 7.62x39 so that goes to show you it is a VERY popular round (worldwide). And it's not just for SKS's & AK's because you don't leave Lapua brass on the ground.
The 7.63x39 has alot going for it. It gives decent balistics with a light recoil. Enough power to take deer sized game +.
Now if you are using steel cased military surplus ammo in a super cheap made rifle... the advantages of the round very well could be taken away...
Lapua make brass for the 7.62x39 so that goes to show you it is a VERY popular round (worldwide). And it's not just for SKS's & AK's because you don't leave Lapua brass on the ground.
The 7.63x39 has alot going for it. It gives decent balistics with a light recoil. Enough power to take deer sized game +.
Now if you are using steel cased military surplus ammo in a super cheap made rifle... the advantages of the round very well could be taken away...
new2turkey
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Originally Posted By: SkyPup
Ruger Mini 30 with a Leopold 1-4X20mm Pig Plex at 50 yards with 7.62x39mm Russian 123 Grain Soft Point ammo:
Nice
Ruger Mini 30 with a Leopold 1-4X20mm Pig Plex at 50 yards with 7.62x39mm Russian 123 Grain Soft Point ammo:
Nice
Black_Wolf
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Originally Posted By: aftCGPahn,
They were pretty quiet about it but that rifle on Sons of Guns was in 7.62x51
That and though not in 7.62x51, the Yugoslavs and Romanians beat em to it more than thirty years ago.
I don't know how the SOG crew can make that claim?
They were pretty quiet about it but that rifle on Sons of Guns was in 7.62x51
That and though not in 7.62x51, the Yugoslavs and Romanians beat em to it more than thirty years ago.
I don't know how the SOG crew can make that claim?
bluealtered
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It's easy Black Wolf, it's tv. 99.9 percent of those watching simply go Ahhhhhh, thats cool. They never give a thought about if it's real or not.
The sad part is that after that money hook is set, their just pimping for the sponsers, what they may have done before no longer matters.
The sad part is that after that money hook is set, their just pimping for the sponsers, what they may have done before no longer matters.
Bax
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I bought a Mini 30 some time ago because I wanted something cheap but fun to shoot (prior to reloading) and since 7.62x39 ammo is amazingly cheap, this was a logical choice.
Unfortunately the cheap Russian ammo didn't do well in my Mini 30 and broke my firing pin. So I had to send it back to Ruger for repair. When my rifle came back, it had a nice little note with a photocopy of a page out of the owner's manual stating that Ruger suggests only using American made ammunition. I called Ruger to ask why they made it a point for me to know this and they advised me that Russian ammunition has harder primers than American made primers and they can literally cause the firing pin to break.
Why do I mention this? Because I saw SkyPup's Mini-30 up there and hope the same thing doesn't happen to him.
On a side note: I sold my Mini-30 because a box of American made 7.62x39 ammunition was too expensive. I could buy a box of HSM .223 with fifty rounds in it for about the same price!
Unfortunately the cheap Russian ammo didn't do well in my Mini 30 and broke my firing pin. So I had to send it back to Ruger for repair. When my rifle came back, it had a nice little note with a photocopy of a page out of the owner's manual stating that Ruger suggests only using American made ammunition. I called Ruger to ask why they made it a point for me to know this and they advised me that Russian ammunition has harder primers than American made primers and they can literally cause the firing pin to break.
Why do I mention this? Because I saw SkyPup's Mini-30 up there and hope the same thing doesn't happen to him.
On a side note: I sold my Mini-30 because a box of American made 7.62x39 ammunition was too expensive. I could buy a box of HSM .223 with fifty rounds in it for about the same price!
YoteAddiction
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personally I love the round, my father, and both my brothers have been using a trio of norinco sks to deer hunt since they were bought in 88 ,I believe, and I personally have been using one for the last six years (since I was old enough to hunt on my own for big game). The three guns have taken a several dozen deer and never had any problems handling the task inside of one hundred yards (they may be effective past that but where I hunt there has NEVER been a good reason to take a shot longer 125 yards) using wolf 124 grain jacketed hollows, and wolf 154 sp. The guns all shoot 2 to 4 inch groups at one hundred yards using said ammo. This year I've gotten into reloading and I'm currently shooting remmy brass loaded with a 150 grain speer hotcor in front of 23.8 grains of h4198, costs more but shots considerably better, and 100 rounds of it is more than enough for sight in and hunting for two or three years. It has low recoil, and provide the platform is decent, good accuracy, and as stated above is very similar to the 30-30, at least inside a reasonable range.
Black_Wolf
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Yep, you hit the nail on the head Blue.
I just figured someone would step up to contest that claim though.
Going back to the topic, I killed my first coyote with a 7.62x39, btw.
Yugoslavian M-59 did the deed and I still have it to this day.
Not a bad shootin iron either.
I just figured someone would step up to contest that claim though.
Going back to the topic, I killed my first coyote with a 7.62x39, btw.
Yugoslavian M-59 did the deed and I still have it to this day.
Not a bad shootin iron either.