hi everyone. i was reading an artcile on the krebs carbine a few month back and at the end of it they said that hornady,or somebody was going to make a match/tac load with 110 or 115gr bullets . anybody know anything about this? thanks cruzerlou
My dad always said the same thing about .30-30... that it wasn't accurate at all. But from what I hear here on G&G it can be pretty accurate. So those rumors just kinda take on a life of their own, and you write a caliber off as bad. I don't know anything about match-grade 7.62x39mm, but isn't the Krebs carbine a pre-19th century gun? I remember reading about it being used in the Phillipine-American war around 1899 in history class this year. I wasn't aware it shot 7.62x39.
JD
hi jelly, the krebs carbine is an american made ak with a stamped receiver. my gun is an arsenal sam-7 sf and has a milled receiver and acording to sgn it is the best ak ever made
I haven't seen much in the way of "match" 7.62x39 ammo. But there's always handloads if you want to tailor it to your rifle. Though I would just assume buy bulk ammo if I were going through a lot of Rounds, and the AK and SKS likes to go through them. But its cool if you want to work up a specific load to handload for the little Russian.
it seems to mee that if you get a match-reamed barrel on an AK or an SKS (read as, it fits around the bullet much more tightly, increases accuracy but decreases reliability when you get stuff like dust/sand/mud/water in the gun because the bullet doesn't chamber correctly), it should shoot fine with some match ammo. a match/bull/fluted barrel on anything will increase accuracy, it's just whether or not the increase in accuracy is a) significant enough to be worth the money it takes to upgrade this, b) worth the change in handling of the gun (the ruger mini, for example, can be upgraded to a 1.25 inch match barrel that destroys the easy handling of the carbine), and c)whether accuracy, when you factor in the price of all the stuff that goes into it (scope/mount, higher quality ammo on a regular basis, more detailed cleaning more often, etc) is really worth it.
so, in this case, if you can get a galil, or a vepr, or any other high-quality AK variant (in any caliber), you can have an ACCURATE plinker. but given the generally low quality of the russian ammo (in terms of tolerances when they make it, not for whether or not it goes 'bang'), you're probably not going to realistically be able to get an MOA gun/carbine in 7.62x39.
