brant
.30 Stingray
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Post by brant on May 15, 2020 15:43:29 GMT -5
Anyone shooting a bolt action rifle in 7.62x39? If you have some experience please let’s here it! I will reload for it. Thank y’all Brant
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Post by bigbrowndog on May 15, 2020 17:39:09 GMT -5
Both the CZ and Ruger have provided good results, I have friends that have both and am impressed with how well they shoot. The Ruger actually did quite well with .308 bullets.
Trapr
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Post by coltnewservice45 on May 15, 2020 19:00:11 GMT -5
I have a Sako AII built by Robert W. Hart & Son back in the 1980s. It was chambered with a CIP pressure barrel reamer and fitted with a 1:14" twist Hart barrel and Zeiss Diatal-C 10x36mm scope. Stock is a McMillan based on the George Van Orden pattern for the M40A1, reinforced with stainless steel box girder in fore-end and 600 mesh stainless steel wire, in NATO Woodland pattern camo. Gun weighs 10 lbs., 2 ozs. and is sub 1/2-moa with Sierra 155-grain Palmas and 24 grains of RL7 in small primer pocket Sako brass with Remington 7-1/2 primers.
Other barrel I have which can be fitted onto the action is a 1:7" twist B.J. Obermeyer, 4-groove, government form, threaded for Gemtech Tracker can which stabililzes 240-grain Matchkings at 900 fps with 24 grains of IMR7828.
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Post by taffin on May 15, 2020 19:29:10 GMT -5
Anyone shooting a bolt action rifle in 7.62x39? If you have some experience please let’s here it! I will reload for it. Thank y’all Brant RUGER AMERICAN
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Post by Stump Buster on May 15, 2020 20:52:14 GMT -5
Don't have any experience with one, but Howa chambers their mini-action in 7.62x39 and it can even be had mounted into an MDT chassis. Looks like it could make for a fun project. There's a youtube video out there showing its accuracy potential.
Good luck on your pursuit.
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Post by Encore64 on May 16, 2020 4:43:11 GMT -5
The CZ527 is a fine rifle. Their accuracy has no peers in my experience. They are a little more pricy than some of the plastic guns. The set trigger alone is worth the premium.
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Post by jimtx on May 16, 2020 14:49:48 GMT -5
I had the CZ 527 right after it came out. I handload fir over 3 dozen calibers , this rifle is great but gave me hell!! Not like my other CZ I’ve owned , with wolf ammo it would put all rounds in one ragged hole! But with a half dozen different powders/ charges, many different .303 and .308 bullets snd weights, advice ftt try on powder/ bullet companies oh and different brass I could not get a decent snd/or consistent load fir that rifle. But I would still buy another in that caliber, fun cheap good on small deer, not very load in woods, very light recoil even max compressed loads. I would love to get an original Ruger, but the American or another CZ would be fine!
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jeffh
.375 Atomic
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Post by jeffh on May 16, 2020 17:07:59 GMT -5
The CZ527 is a fine rifle. Their accuracy has no peers in my experience. They are a little more pricy than some of the plastic guns. The set trigger alone is worth the premium.
I have one and I have to agree with everything but the "premium" part, but that's a fluke - not standard. I got mine pretty cheap.
THIS is THE absolutely most perfectly-fitting rifle I've ever bought or "built" (not just snapped parts together-built - all but installing the barrels and finish-chambering-built - to TRY t to get what I wanted) and I tried for years to achieve this level of fit for myself. I got the "Youth" model, and it's not at all too small for an adult. I'm not a BIG adult, but many youth variants are a bit small even for me. Not so this one.
I already had dies, bought some Starline brass and was back into the 7.62x39 since sometime in the mid to late nineties. Neat cartridge, amazing gun. I acquired a mould from RDO and played a little but came to me senses. I have been thinning things for a long time and already have a Contender Carbine in 30-30 that shoots like no 6# (with scope) rifle has a right to, but I LOVE that fit and that wonderful "micro-Mauser" action, but didn't NEED the 7.62x39. I had to make a choice between it and the less exciting Contender Carbine.
This is my third CZ 527 and I do NOT regret the luxurious feeling associated with owning this rifle. I'm sure the Ruger American is just as capable, but I figure I deserve a little "nice" now and then.
Perfect match between this carbine and this cartridge.
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Post by AxeHandle on May 17, 2020 14:59:28 GMT -5
+1 on the CZ. Didn't buy the 7.62x39. Mine is a 300 BO. Wonderful single set trigger. Only negative I've noted is the lack of bedding. I'd like the same action and barrel in an appropriate piece of wood but I do have a plan to properly bed the action in the plastic stock it came in. I like the cartridge, action, barrel, and trigger so much I've even been tempted to buy a wood stocked CZ just to swap out the stocks.
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Post by z1r on May 17, 2020 15:52:53 GMT -5
I have CZ 527's in both 7.62x39 and 6.5 Grendel. Love them. The Howa Mini gets high marks as well.
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Post by harveylogan on May 17, 2020 18:24:44 GMT -5
I have a CZ527, early gun, First CZ, It’s very accurate, I run it with the open sights,
I also recently acquired a 1st production run 221 fireball.
NICE GUNS, especially for the money.
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Post by rjm52 on May 18, 2020 6:15:00 GMT -5
Have had: Ruger 77/MKII 22" stainess with the Zetel stock Ruger 77/MKII 22" stainless with a walnut stock Ruger 77/MKII 20" stainless Lite Rifle with Zetel stock CZ527 Carbine very early model Savage Scout Rifle 20" Traded the CZ to Mackay Sagebrush for a Tikka .223 as I didn't have a .223 bolt gun...it is a great shooter. The single set trigger on the early guns was different than the later ones and can be tuned much better especially in the unset mode. I only wish ever rifle I owned had that same style of trigger. Sold off the two 22" Ruger 77/MKII only because the 20" shot as accurately and is much lighter than the full size rifles. All three will run .75 moa or less with quality ammo. The Savage was a limited production gun. Mine has a 2-7 Burris Scout Scope on it..making hits out to 400 yards is easy... Back in the mid 2000s there was a guy who had bought a CONTAINER full of LAPUA 7.62x39 ammo in 30 round boxes/1500 rounds to a case....it was $0.30 a round delivered when one could buy WOLF steel case for $0.09 a round... He didn't live too far from me and between several friends and I he brought up two mini-vans full of ammo. I still have a couple of cases left. The once fired brass now sells for more than I paid for the ammo. The last time I saw any for sale it was a $1.00 a round... Because it shoots so well I have never reloaded a round of 7.62x39...and never plan to. Great round....Bob
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danno
.240 Incinerator
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Post by danno on May 18, 2020 14:34:05 GMT -5
+1 on the CZ. Fine rifle!
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Post by magnumwheelman on May 18, 2020 15:39:40 GMT -5
wouldn't surprise me if some of the newer Rugers have a .308 bore... love my lil CZ enough, that it survived the sell off
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Post by Encore64 on May 18, 2020 15:44:07 GMT -5
My Ruger #1 slugs .310". It shoots .308, .310 and .311" bullets all sub 1" and is a pleasure to shoot.
I also load the Hornady 100 grn XTP 32 Bullet over Unique. It duplicates the old 32-20 rounds of yesteryear perfectly.
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