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Got an upper coming.

I couldn't resist cheap ammo with hard hitting soft point bullets. Hogs mainly. Maybe a deer now and then...

Ranges I plan are under 150 yards.

Should be about like a 30-30 for that application...

Anyone been using one?

How's it work?

I used to hunt with a couple guys that slapped a synthetic stock on a Russian made SKS and hunted with 7.62 x 39 hollow points.

They shot many blacktail with those rounds. I've got one too, but it's way in the back of the gun safe.

Lots of people around here have used them with good results.

There are several guys over on the CZ forums that hunt with a one of CZ's sweet little Carbines in 7.62X39.

They all seem pretty happy with the round.

Little people hunted me with that round for years. Didn't work out well for them. Some even had plastic stocks and grips.

Nothing wrong with the 7.62x39 in the 30-30 envelope. At all.

I've got a couple of SKS's (more than a couple, actually) that really responded well to the usual accurizing tricks. Only one will kill prairie dogs (inside of 200) and it heats up too fast, but I look forward to the day I have a chance to go after hogs with any of my three "good" SKS's,

Then there is the CZ. The bottom line there is that careful handloading gets your under an inch at 100. So that's on my bucket list, to get a CZ in Soviet. Even if it doesn't drive tacks, then I'll have a donor for a 6 or 22 Grendel/Russian, maybe even a PPC with fireforming.

I'd love to have one of those CZ's!

I'll play with the round on my AR platform, and if I like it, I may check into getting the CZ...

Years ago, I bought one of the Yugo SKS's. I didn't keep it long. But it wasn't the cartridge's fault.

I have a mini howa in a 39 that I'm setting up for my son to use when he turns ten. I got several boxes of factory 123g tipped stuff from nosler for $10/box and once its shot I'll load the brass.

Bb

If your gonna do it , do it right ...
Arsenal SLR 100H type 3 AK47 milled.
Accurate as fugg with Wolf 123gr HP,s
Just gonna bring one 30rd Circle 10 mag.
All I need....
LOL!!!

Type 94 permit for 25 bucks to shoot 3 does a day here in Tn during Rifle season.
Slumlord has issues with invites on his place.
Get in one of the good valley,s or on one of the ridge lines with some terrian masking.
Im going full blown retard on does.
If a 8pt or better wider than his ears comes by he is dead also.
( always been our min for bucks)
Even though everyone else drops anything they see out their.
I wont stop shooting 3 does a day if the opportunity keeps presenting itself.
Until Slumlord says enough, I am killing every fughing doe I see up to 3 a day.
Gonna be an interesting opening weekend out their when all the
" If you build it they will come types" start hearing 3 to 5 aimed rounds as fast as i can squeeze em off dropping does.
Extra rounds for effect are a bonus also.
3 down, rounds left light up a fughing tree trunk...
LOL!!!
Give those slickheads out their a PHD in hunterology and run away at the slightest sense of danger.

Just ta keep them leeches out their from having any sucesss at all.
Thats the whole point.......
Fugga,s aint put 1 ounce of sweat equity into slumlords place ever.
But they always show up to hunt....

Coyotes are dead meat also....

Rene, you shot anything with it yet?

Or you gonna be looking for first blood?

When my two eldest boys were young they each killed blackbuck with my CZ Carbine at a friends ranch outside Camp Wood. I killed a few hogs with it and culled a handful of WT does there as well. We used Wolf 122 gr Soft Points from the case of 1000 I bought back when I bought the rifle. Zero issues.

Looking for 1st blood with it man.
LOL!!!
Just paper, steel , rocks, concrete, soft balls , tennis balls , broken pieces of clay pigeons ect ect ect so far.
Rapid fire stuff, slow fire stuff, off bench and bags stuff, mag dump stuff, aimed 3- 5 rd rapid stuff.
Different shooting position stuff.
Ran about 1200 rds thru it since I got it
It is ready to rock....


Only place I am hunting with it is Slumlords place.
For the shear terror and shock effect.
When they starting hearing AK burst out their.
People are gonna schit their pants.

Not just the fugged up carte blanche invites on his place, but all the surrounding places that hunt the borders around his 250+ acres.
All hoping to draw deer off his place.

Fugg em all.
Let em eat fishheads.

LOL!!!

LOL. I’m picturing the Movie “Red Dawn” in my head now. 😜

Ballistics wise you're in 30-30 territory. Got a few SKS's, and I can handload 7.62x39 although I mostly use factory stuff. Haven't hunted with anything in that chambering yet but it gets spoken of favorably by those who's used it in that role. The CZ bolt gun in x39 is very interesting to me and the Ruger American Ranch Rifle is also available in 7.62x39. First x39 Ranch Rifle I ever saw in person was at a gun show. Picked it up and fondled it and almost bought it on the spot. Only thing that stopped me was thinking how it would be too similar to using my Marlin 30-30.

Those wolf soft points actually worked damn well. I used to buy them from cabelas 1000 at a time in a plastic ammo can for $89 every day price.

Worked great on whitetail and was cheeky enough for targets as well.

I got 500 rounds of Silver Bear 125gr SP's to start with.

From the reviews they run really well in AR's and mushroom well.

That one round I don’t have.

I put QD rings and an old leather military sling on it and dubbed it my "Battle Rifle" because it's as close as I'll ever come to owning an "Assault Weapon".


PS....I forgot to mention....I also have two magazines

Nice!

That one is in 7.62 Commie?

Both work well on hogs out of my Ruger American Ranch Rifle