Shooting Illustrated . I used a bunch of AK variants during my Army career, but I never gave Mikhail Kalashnikov's simple masterpiece much thought beyond its . Taking the time to actually zero them can make AKs aim- worthy, but they are still not known for precision. I always assumed the 7. I personally goto my local national forest shooting range. Range has 3 lanes, a 25 yard, 100 yard. There is no range safety or anything. As long as there are other shooters I respect thier range time and dont do anything stupid. ![]() It’s not intended as a long range cartridge, and the loss of velocity at those longer ranges means the round doesn’t have a lot of punch left at that distance anyway. For sacrificing range. A few years ago, the company introduced the all-American Centurion line of milled-receiver AKs, including the 16.25-inch barrel Centurion 39 Sporter rifle and the 11.37-inch barrel C39 pistol. For 2014, the company is. Wouldn't it be nice to have your AK doing that? I'm sure that the Trigger Job and flatter shooting Barnes had a lot to do with the better results. Shooting long range with a 7.62x39 AK - YouTube May 19, 2014 . Some folks will say the 7.62x39 AK is wildly inaccurate and that long. Shooting long range with a 7. I would go with either one if you don't plan on shooting long distances. The shorter barrel won't give you 1' groups at 100 yards, but are you going to be shooting at that distance? If I were to be carrying it around, I would get the shorter barrel to save. 7.62x39 ammo is most commonly used in AK-47 rifles as the former Soviet standard and one of the most popular intermediate rifle. Look for in-stock 7.62x39 ammunition with bullet weights generally in the 122-grain to 124-grain range. Full metal jacket rounds. It turns out that I was very, very wrong. Fast forward a few years to the point where I finally grew tired of lugging my . Win.- chambered AR around the woods every fall. Don't get me wrong, I still love me some . ![]() ![]() Win., but ever since hanging up my fightin' boots, the willpower required to punish myself with more weight and bulk than necessary has evaporated. I resolved to build a carbine on the smaller AR- 1. The . 3. 00 AAC Blackout and . Rem. AR had yet to make their commercial debuts at the time, so that left me with 6. Grendel, 6. 8 Rem. SPC, . 3. 00 Whisper and 7. I liked the . 3. 00 Whisper in both subsonic and supersonic loads, but I wanted a cartridge with more factory- ammo options. Previous experience with 6. Rem. SPC accuracy woes ruled it out for the time being. Components for 6. Grendel were both expensive and/or nonexistent at the time. It seems I was destined to dance with the 7. I figured if it would at least shoot as well or better than a .
Win. Imagine my surprise when right out of the gate the first one I built shot consistently well. I just dove in, doing zero research ahead of time. I picked what I thought looked like the best components from a very limited field of choices with no idea what to expect. I quickly learned firing pins need a slightly longer protrusion through the bolt face and/or a wider tip in order to reliably ignite most of the Eastern European primers. A simple Web search would have provided that information ahead of time, but that would have been too easy. I also discovered most 7. AR- barrel makers do not have a good grasp of gas ports. ![]() It took a little trial and error for me to find the right port sizes and buffer/buffer- spring combinations for mid- and carbine- length gas systems. Once I worked through these challenges, my carbine became a reliable shooter that has spawned a bunch of offspring for other happy shooters. The 7. 6. 2x. 39 mm AR configuration uses the same bolt carrier as 5. I used to consider this a negative when compared with chamberings that use the same bolt- carrier group and mags, but after seeing someone destroy an AR by feeding it the wrong cartridge from a mixed- ammunition magazine, the different bolt and magazine may not be such a bad thing after all. Ammunition cost and availability are huge advantages in this chambering. Even when most other cartridges are scarce and prices are inflated, 7. Europe. Several factory loads are available from both Ameri- can and foreign factories that bring accuracy and downrange performance to the party in one package. My favorite factory fodder is Federal's 1. Hornady's 1. 23- grain SST and 1. Zombie Max loads also shoot nice groups and provide devastating expansion in critters. Accurate ammo from across the pond suitable for both hunting and defensive use includes both Tula and Wolf 1. John . Both brass and steel- cased loads work well in these rifles. As with any caliber, be sure when you shoot heavily lacquered steel cases, you pay special attention to keeping your chamber clean during maintenance to avoid any long- term buildup or stickiness. So what's not to like about a 7. AR? Availability of factory- built rifles, for one thing. At press time, I was only able to find options from four companies: Rock River Arms, Olympic Arms, MGI and Del- Ton (upper only). At one time, Bushmaster, DPMS and Armalite also offered 7. ARs, but I do not see them on current product lists. Not finding an off- the- shelf solution leaves the prospective AR buyer with the option of finding a custom builder or making a project gun or upper. This leads to the next problem: availability of components. Finding good barrels is often a challenge. I have come close to buying . Armalite's chrome- lined barrels are the most consistently accurate I have used, but none have come out of the Geneseo, IL- based company in the past two years. AR- Stoner makes 1. I have used shot very well. Off- the- shelf firing pins can be had by themselves from Model 1 Sales or from MGI in conjunction with their 7. Several other companies have made bolt assemblies, but to the best of my knowledge, only MGI is currently producing them for the parts market. Magazines have been the real Achilles' heel of this AR configuration. For several years, there simply were not any good options. Today, C- Products, AR- Stoner and Pro- Mag each produce mags in various capacities. I have found the five- and 1. I have settled on Pro- Mag as my brand, though C- Products is a close second. Pro- Mag's 3. 0- rounders ride highest in the AR's lower receiver, which is critical to reliable functioning. I think if someone could figure out a way to produce a polymer 7. AR lower, the rifle and cartridge would blossom. A reliable 2. 0- round magazine would also be well received by shooters. Rock River Arms and MGI have tackled the magazine problem in an entirely different manner, designing their ARs to accept standard AK magazines. I reviewed the MGI Marck- 1. Hydra in 2. 01. 2 for Shooting Illustrated. While testing that system, I found a wide variety of AK mags fed perfectly. The MGI design proved reliable and has the additional advantage being modular, so changing chamberings is relatively easy with the purchase of additional barrels, bolts, magazines and modular mag wells. Steel AK magazines are generally easy to find, and aftermarket polymer configurations shave a bunch of weight. The downside to this setup is the AR's bolt cannot be locked to the rear and the mag bodies are too bulky to fit in human- size ammo pouches. Regardless of whether a 7. AR uses AK or AR- pattern magazines, the very long 3. Performance- wise, how does 7. AR cartridges? I see factory ammo velocities between 2,2. I can get my handloads up to the 2,4. While the 7. 6. 2x. AR options, it also has distinct advantages. As a side note, there are several other non- AR/AK/SKS 7. Ruger's Mini- Thirty is still available in several configurations and finishes. CZ- USA offers its Model 5. Russian round and if you look, you will find other bolt- action options as well as surplus guns that look like AKs, but have different internal designs and magazines. Up to this point, I have only built 7. ARs with 1. 6- inch barrels. Performance with chrome- moly/chrome- lined and stainless steel barrels in both light and medium contours has been good enough to convince me that carbines are fine for shooting out to 3. The 7. 6. 2x. 39 mm is a good solution for moving up from . AR's size and while keeping your budget in check. Looking back to my soldiering days, I'm glad I was unaware of this cartridge's accuracy potential while I was on its receiving end. I distinctly remember thinking that the odds of being hit from beyond 1. It's a good thing the bad guys were using inaccurate guns (often with the buttstocks removed) and placed little emphasis on aiming. Otherwise, I might have had a healthier respect for. X3. 9 Long Range Accuracy.
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