Quote Originally Posted by tammons
Nothing wrong with the 7.62x39 for a deer and hog rifle.
Not quite as good as the 6.8 spc, but it works, and you can shoot heavy bullets.

Actually a 6.8 SPC is really what they should build. Great hunting caliber.

I had an AR in 7.62x39 a few years ago. Got 3 deer with it one year.

I loaded the 308 110 gr Vmax to get the velocity up.
Shot 3/4" groups.
Shot a deer in the neck with that setup at about 50 yards and it dropped on the spot.

Good luck trying to buy a bolt head from savage called three diffrent people and all I got was a huge road block.
Also shot some wolf ammo. The 123s shot all over the place.

The 154s or whatevers softpoint (or we should call them hard points) shot pretty tight.
Used them and shot two deer in the boiler room.
Terrible bullet as the lead is hard as a rock and the bullet does not mushroom.

Pencil size hole in, pencil size hole out.
I recovered both of the deer.

My 90 YO dad went out with me tracking one, and when he looked at the exit hole he said
"that's where you hit him". I did a double take and realized that was the exit hole.

I ended up shelving that ammo and using good brass and reloading everything since the Wolf stuff is such junk.

Never could get the 123 gr TSX bullets to group at all. Shot about 3-4 inches