7.62 x 39 Russian 200 yard accuracy Siaga AK

Just for fun--and we are currently experiencing a heat wave; 20 degrees--I took my PSA AK out with 10 rounds of wolf polyformance in the mag. I could only get out to 154 yds and conditions are still very icy. Using the primary arms 1 x 4 AK optic I figure my setup is pretty close to your's. Your results probably are not all that bad once you figure whatever glitch is messing with your bullets would be my guess.

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1.3moa(ATC or R50) out 150yd is pretty good.
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For combloc bimetal bulk ammo I'm very pleased with it. It never has choked in the rifles I've fired it in--and while it's not going to wow a precision shooter; it's consistently "good enough."
 
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For combloc bimetal bulk ammo I'm very pleased with it. It never has choked in the rifles I've fired it in--and while it's not going to wow a precision shooter; it's consistently "good enough."
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That's more than good enough. I wish all my rifle can get close. My standard is 2moa R50 at 100yd, 10 shots or more, excluding flyers correctly called.

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That's more than good enough. I wish all my rifle can get close. My standard is 2moa R50 at 100yd, 10 shots or more, excluding flyers correctly called.
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In the spirit of full disclosure--the first shot was to get the approximate bullet drop --I had previously shot the rifle at a shorter distance--so the recorded group is just 9 shots.;) Still, I was for the longest time one of those shooters who always looked down on wolf/tula steel case stuff, but this stuff is much better than what I first tried many years ago. Every shot felt the same--and every case was thrown about 30 feet.:D
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Jim567 If you are getting tight groups at 100 yds--and I'll add my best handloads of 7.62 x 39 have been when using SST's--and then they fall completely apart at another 100 yds that seems awfully strange to me. The only logical reason I can think of is something is causing a radical destabilization of your projectiles. Pure conjecture, but whatever that is must have a threshold at the velocity/spin rate between 100 and 200 yds. I can't think of a condition where a weapon would shoot tight at 100 yds and for some mechanical error in the gun cause the projectile to "selectively" degrade it's trajectory at a particular range. I'd call Hornady--they are usually helpful when I call them, and see what they say. I'd try other ammo and chrono the results and see if the error was consistent. I guess it's possible if the bullet was not getting compressed to the bore properly (I think most AK type weapons on the US market are around .310 and I think that's what Hornady makes their SST's to) and it could be flying and/or spinning fast enough initially to overcome destabilization, though it seems odd it could be that different between 100 and 200 yards.
 
O_o Wow!!

Good looking, un-converted Saiga!!!

Curious to see the results with two different types of ammo....
 
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The wolf ammo shot a group of about 10 inches and high.

The hornady was 5-6” which is what I would expect from an AK.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0878US1oeGjHgrO7aexCXfdpw

The Ruger American shot 1.75”. Same Hornady SST ammo.
And I wasn’t having a great day.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/018jBUDJeZEcZyW6sjUulzsbw

I have no idea what happened with the Saiga last week
I don’t believe lapping the crown would help that much.
I wonder if I had my magazine up against the bench rest?
I’m just happy it’s doing what an AK should do at this point.
 
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