Darth AkSarBen

Having handloaded for years, and referenced in many books, the cannelure is where the round is to be crimped. If it does not have a cannelure, one should not crimp it or you suffer accuracy and possibly a bit of excessive pressure. It will also deform the bullet slightly leading to less than ideal accuracy. The Hague Convention addresses the use of soft point bullets in wartime use by members of an armed force. No soft point bullets allowed due to the mushrooming effect, no mention of tumbling though, so that is not at issue. Last I knew I wasn't in the military, and any terrorists or thr

The cannelure is not for fragmentation, it's for crimping the cartrige case neck to the bullet. This prevents it from coming out or shoving deeper.

I'll pick them up if that were the case, as someone could use them. I'd pick up anything that would be useful. No the .223 is not like the Henry rifle in comparison. It's an analogy. There is a vast difference between bows and arrows and firearm. In the right hands, the stealthy characteristics of the arrow are a lethal weapon. To the untrained they are a give away of your position. Anything that shoots a projectile, even the lowly .22 is preferred to a stick or a stone for defense/offense. You have 3 rifles laying on the ground, a .223 a 7.62 x 39mm and a 7.62 x 51mm aka .308 Win

Now the .308 Winchester in 125 gr at 3212 FPS Pretty explosive round at that speed. Ref: http://www.handloads.org/loaddata/default....wder&Source= You gain an extra 882 FPS with the .308 Winchester (7.62 x 51) as compared to 7.62 x 39 Only drawback is the weight of 100 rounds of .308 compared to 100 round of the 7.62 x 39.

Negative. You can pick up all the "FREE" AK-74s you want with ammo scattered around here and there. You won't have to convert them with the forward fire control group. But, why would you even pick them up? If they get left behind, then they would obviously not be a superior round/firearm then huh? In early encounters with Native American Indians, U.S. Calvary picked up few if any bows and arrows, but the Indians picked picked up plenty of Henry repeating arms and such from those that no longer needed them. If a .223 is a superior round, along with our .308 to their 7.62 x 39, then why pick th

There will be ballisitic difference between rifles of even the same mfg. Barrels can vary, and so does ammo. A few Feet / second here and there really doesn't matter. Powder will be consumed in the length of the rifling (burn rate) so, unless you hanload with a slow burning powder, you are going to get all the cartridge is capable of in a shorter 16/18" barrel.

Standing in the front of the house, holding the Saiga .223. Daughter took the picture. It was more of the target, but it's still of me. I have very few of me. I do a lot of photographs, Nikon D80 and a lot of other equipment, so in all the thousands of pics, generally ones of me are not usually there. Very nice set of rifles and such I have seen here. LONG thread!!! Takes a while to get to the end. I was a young man when this thread started now look at me!!!

Well, I have the factory 10 round magazine and the Sure Fire 30 round magazine that both have the built in bullet guide. By installing a bullet guide on the rifle, will this effectually make the magazines I have useless unless I modify them? I don't want to modify the factory nor the Sure Fire magazine. I want my cake and eat it too as the saying. If the bullet guide is in place, then you say the factory and Sure Fire won't work as issued without modifying them? I find the 10 round works better for testing bullets as well. When you try a 3 round load of certain powder/weight, you don't

Rivets and 3rd lugs on .308 are not something to grind off. Russians are a frugal bunch. My ancestry is Germans from Russia, and they keep everything and waste nothing. If it was not an important part they would not have put it in there. 1 rivet X 500,000 rifles amounts to a lot of money to them. It's a pivotal point, as I suspected, a starter for the bolt. (per the link) I have read this on some other site, though, as well. My curiosity is can the bullet guide be used in conjunction with the regular Saiga magazines, either Soviet supplied, or the Sure Fire American made?

How many rifle manufactures make this rifle in this caliber? This is not a question that needs an answer, just one to ponder on. Ruger makes the Mini-14 (223) and the Mini-30 (7.6 x 39). The .223 is made in many different rifle makers, and configurations, from semi-auto to bolt action, even single shot. This is a reaon I am going with the .308 Saiga next purchase. You can only stuff so much powder behind the 7.62 mm bullet in a 39mm case. But, you can stuff a lot more powder =energy in a .308 case propelling that 7.62 mm bullet (.308 in this case) In the 5.45 x 39 scenario, you ar

Shoot .223 hollow point or soft point bullets. Plenty around and reloading is superb. The .223 Remington not only frags, it completely comes apart. Gallon jugs of water explode being hit with a .223 SP or HP bullet.

Looks excellent! Very positive way to press it on. I thought about that idea with a gear puller as well. Just protect the crown of the barrel. Thanks for posting. Things like this need combined into one thread and a sticky of innovative ideas in "Doing things".

I've read it someplace, but will recall from memory. Doesn't that rivet on the left side serve the purpose of starting the bolt to cam into position for firing (battery)?

I went with .223 over the 7.62 x 39 originally as I looked around "my" local area for bullets. .223 is in a lot of stores, even Wal-Mart, and even though I have seen the 7.62 x 39 in Wal-Mart they haven't had any for quite some time. I'm a reloader and brass for the 7.62 was a little hard to find in brass cases. .223 was plentiful. Now comes 5.45mm and a cartridge that has neither a lot of history, nor a U.S. manufacturer of bullets. It was the Soviets idea of basically stepping down their 7.62 to a thinner bullet, comparable, but it's size does not compare and is an inferior cartridge.

I grew up on a ranch in NW Nebraska where it is pretty open. Prairie dogs at 200 yards sometimes only give you a head for a target, and that's about as big as a small chicken egg. Some are out further at 300 or 400 yards, and standing. We learn to get in a little closer on those to make sure we increase our chances of a hit. Most varmit hungters would as soon get in a closer shot, but ofen not possible. Reasoning is that there is a lot less possibility of variances at 200 yards and less than 200 + yards. A tiny freckle off at 100 yards is going to be a miss at 400 yards, again depending

....and what dimensions/ bullets did you come up with?

Dale, You are cycling live rounds in a rifle in/at home? I make it a practice to not load one in the chamber until it is just to be fired. Strange things happen with loading a firearm like a rifle in a house. One slip up and you have a nasty loud .308 going off and into who knows what. I'm not saying I don't have loaded firearms, as they are all loaded. What I am saying is if you do load a round in the house, pay attention to where the barrel is pointing in case it did go off. I have this old box of magazines that I point my Taurus into when chambering a round in the house. I figure "i

16" with Wolf.... stick with 100 to 150 yards and call it good. How far will it shoot? Over a mile, so watch where you aim it, as it has sufficient range, but with Wolf, anything you hit at over 400 yards is going to be accidental with a 16" .308 depending on the target. Small trucks and cars you can hit. Small watermellons and muskmellons at 400 yards are going to be missed unless it happens to just be a lucky hit. For Main Battle Rifle, it will performs as such in that 150yrds +/- with open sights and bulk ammo. It will drive anyone to adequate cover and then make them rethink what "adequat

Hold the peak of your index finger over the muzzle and fire the rifle. Quickly remove your finger. If you don't have a finger to remove, you let it dwell too long, hence a peak dwell. An Obama in a deck of cards is one joker too many. That's a peak as well...or some word that starts with "P" and does end in "K" I am sure what SN is after is the fact that the .223 round is fired and exits so fast out of the muzzle that there is less time dwelling in the barrel at any peak pressures. Heavier, larger bullets, traveling slower down the barrel will have a longer time where they are at their p

This is good. In fact, I am surprised that this link is not in the sticky section for the .308 http://izhevsk.club.guns.ru/eng/sig308.htm

Franz, I see the issue about accuracy and the AR. I don't think it was an accuracy issues as much as it was an issue to rotate the bolt as little as possible to lock in battery. I don't support the idea of increased accuracy with an additional bolt for this reason. ALL of the major match grade rifles would have 3 or more bolts if that was true, but, they don't. Match M1A Garands have 2 lugs. Even match grade target rifles have 2 lugs, with the exception for a few of some of the rifle manufactures that used their own proprietary designs. When a round goes into battery it is held in place by he

If you look for one manual, I'd suggest Lyman's 49th. It is pretty generic, full of info, trim case length to, etc. Also, most ball or spherical powders require magnum primers for the best burn. Just load 1/2 grain lower and go from there and check the presure signs on your brass. Military brass is different inside, and needs to be reduced in load for starting, around 10% at least. Saiga .308 Winchester has a 1:12 twist rate. Keep that in mind when reloading for bullet weights. You should get better accuracy when you find a combination of powder and bullet that your particu

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