300 AAC vs. 7.62X39

That helped me find $10.99:

http://www.cabelas.com/product/MFS-2...h-All+Products

I recall seeing numerous cases of 762x39 at $200-220 at the last Chantilly gun show.

Don't get me wrong- 300AAC looks like a promising round and I'd love to have one but you need massive economies of scale to make a round affordable to shoot. 762x39, 9mm, 5.56, 22LR, etc. It's a bit of a chicken vs egg paradox

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Originally Posted by rsilvers

That helped me find $10.99:

http://www.cabelas.com/product/MFS-2...h-All+Products

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The Yugo brass cased corrosive stuff is about 15 to 20 cents a round based on that site.

http://www.ammoengine.com/find/ammo/7.62x39mm

Neat site. Basically it is telling me that 223 or 5.56mm I would buy begins at 31 cents a round. It also has 300 Whisper(R):

http://www.ammoengine.com/find/ammo/.300_Whisper

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Originally Posted by Boss Hogg

I recall seeing numerous cases of 762x39 at $200-220 at the last Chantilly gun show.

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Not non-corrosive brass cased.

what is this, dances with bullets?

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Originally Posted by rsilvers

Todd from Noveske choreographed the 123 grain Remington ammo as 2345 fps from a 16 inch Noveske barrel. One of our customers got 2360 average from an AAC Model-7 barrel. Both of these are higher than what Remington claims - but we wanted to publish a spec that was conservative and was easily made by the shipping product.

7.62x39mm, averaging some data I saw posted around the interweb, is about 2250 fps from a 16 inch barrel. I know the spec for 7.62x39 is supposed to be faster than that, but it seems to be loaded mildly in practice.

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Instead of fighting over who can find the cheapest 7.62x39, why don't we concentrate on the 300AAC. Sounds like a great cartridge. Now if we can just find some affordable ammo, maybe some MFG's will start to produce some uppers (BCM).

Yugo Milsurp M67. $3.29/15rds.

I really love the idea of the 300BLK and will be building an upper in it....someday.....

To me the attraction is also a simple barrel replacement.
Same bolt, same mags without loss of capacity.

The down side is the ammo price.
But, for me it's something I would use with a short barrel in a HD scenario. I wouldn't be shooting paper with it on a regular basis.