hungarian 7.62x54r range rep

[_N4Z_]

Fired 20 rounds of 7.62x54r Hungarian yellow tip heavy ball today thru my M39. 187 grain I think is what the shop guy said.

Off a sand bag at 100 yards I'd say the stuff did OK accuracy wise for 3 bucks. 3.5" wide x 5" vertical group of 10 shots in the pic below. The other 10 were fired at the 200 yard gong. Went 5 out of 10 with that. :-|

On a negative note, several of these rounds were extremely hard to eject. I ran 40 rounds of Russian surplus thru the same rifle a couple weeks ago with no such issue.

 

[Koobuh]

Nice M39, there.

My experience with Hungarian yellow-tip is that it's fairly accurate (1.5-2" @ 100 yds from my own M39), but dirty, dirty, dirty.

I'm surprised your rifle didn't like it- my own definitely prefers heavier rounds to light ones, though the polish light ball did alright.

You'll eventually find an ammunition that your rifle likes. I would personally start out with the Wolf black box heavy soft point and light ball to see which it prefers, then work from there in those categories.

 

[Jackal]

I have fired 3 rounds of Hungarian through my M44. Only 3 you ask? Yes, because the third one's primer punctured and blew lots of tasty hot gas in my face. This has never happened using Wolf, Barnaul or Yugoslav surplus. Funny thing is, I forgot about it afterwards(lots going on at the time) and while I cleaned and de-salted the barrel/bolt face, I forgot to clean the inside of bolt body. Next time I used the rifle, the bolt felt a little gritty and i'm sittin there thinkin "whats up?". Wouldnt you know it, the whole inside of the bolt was VERY crusty and rusty. I still have 17 rounds left and will always have 17 rounds left.

 

[armoredman]

Surplus ammo in this caliber tends to stick, especially the satellite nations stuff. Chuck a 20 ga bursh in a drill, dip it in solvent, and drill out your chamber. Clean normally, repeat. gets the last little bits of cosmo out that tend to melt with the laquer on the steel cased ammo, sticking it in the chamber.

 

[Koobuh]

Jackal, I had the same problem with my M39. Turns out my firing pin spring was so old it not only had compressed but was warped into a c-shape!
I already had a Wolff replacement spring handy, so I swapped it in. We'll see if that fixes the problem- the primers were expanding back against the spring, and apparently would push it back far enough at times to blow into the bolt.
Let me tell you, a bolt-malf drill on a Mosin can be done pretty quickly while you're shooting for points. It was pretty sickening to drop all of those primer bits out of the bolt after every other course of fire.