wally
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Picked up and FPK at last week's gun show, only non-corrosive ammo I could get was Wolf 148gr and Brown and Silver Bear 185gr. Liked the price on the Bears a lot better!
I've read the threads about light ball and heavy ball and warnings about using heavy ball.
My question is has anyone actually damaged one of these PSL/FPK/Romak-3 guns from shooting commercial 185gr ammo? I'm sure surplus 7.62x54R loaded for machine guns with the heavy bullets could damage them. Its easy to skip the 203 gr stuff. I'll stick to light ball for surplus as its hard to know what you are really getting.
But shooting the 148gr Wolf and the 183gr Bears I felt little if any difference in recoil, the empties were all in the same general vicinity, and it seems the Bears grouped a bit better -- too windy and rainy to be really sure but I had to get out and shoot my new toy! Don't see any damage to the rims or other differences between the 148 gr and 185 grain empties to suggest any change in extraction/ejection violence. In fact found all the Bear empties and only about half the Wolf.
I generally try to avoid corrosive ammo, but for long range plinking fun I plan to order a few 440 round tins of surplus light ball. Which is better Hungarian or Bulgarian? Cost is about the same. I don't care about anything else unless you've got a link where I can actually buy some as these are the only two I've found on-line so far.
I've not heard of damage to AKs from using 154gr ammo instead of the "standard" 123gr fodder which is actually a slightly larger percentage increase in bullet weight than the 185 is over the 148gr stuff. The FPK is basically just a big AK.
--wally.
I've read the threads about light ball and heavy ball and warnings about using heavy ball.
My question is has anyone actually damaged one of these PSL/FPK/Romak-3 guns from shooting commercial 185gr ammo? I'm sure surplus 7.62x54R loaded for machine guns with the heavy bullets could damage them. Its easy to skip the 203 gr stuff. I'll stick to light ball for surplus as its hard to know what you are really getting.
But shooting the 148gr Wolf and the 183gr Bears I felt little if any difference in recoil, the empties were all in the same general vicinity, and it seems the Bears grouped a bit better -- too windy and rainy to be really sure but I had to get out and shoot my new toy! Don't see any damage to the rims or other differences between the 148 gr and 185 grain empties to suggest any change in extraction/ejection violence. In fact found all the Bear empties and only about half the Wolf.
I generally try to avoid corrosive ammo, but for long range plinking fun I plan to order a few 440 round tins of surplus light ball. Which is better Hungarian or Bulgarian? Cost is about the same. I don't care about anything else unless you've got a link where I can actually buy some as these are the only two I've found on-line so far.
I've not heard of damage to AKs from using 154gr ammo instead of the "standard" 123gr fodder which is actually a slightly larger percentage increase in bullet weight than the 185 is over the 148gr stuff. The FPK is basically just a big AK.
--wally.
