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Just got an AK, looking for opinions on which ammunition to get that is available by the case. Range ammo, general plinking...Anyone?
 
If your range is an indoor type and requires the bullets to be free of steel about the only cheap choice your left with is yugo surplus. It is corrosive but it'll clean up fine. By all means aim surplus has good deals and are good to work with.
 
Buy whatever is cheap, and your range will let you use. I bought almost exclusivly Monarch FMJ, but I was limited to shooting it on the farm, as our range does not allow FMJ out of centerfire rifles. I really liked Silverbear SPs, and I did shoot some Brown Bear HPs....but all in all, I got the cheapest stuff possible.....the Yugo stuff on CLassicarms.us is good, just clean with water, lube, and dry...its listed as corrosive....
 
Brown Bear is cleaner and more accurate than both Wolf and Wolf Military Classic. I have tested all three. Bear is the same price too. Also no need to worry about Laquer coating, it is not going to harm your AK one bit.
 
Last I bought was Wolf Military Classic 124gr JHP (8M3, aka "Sapsan", NOT black-box Wolf). It's one of the few imported 7.62x39mm jacketed hollowpoints that actually expands/fragments reliably, and isn't much more expensive than imported FMJ. It is probably middle of the road as far as accuracy goes, though.

I wish that they still imported Lapua 7.62x39mm. That would be my preferred range ammo (at least for distance shooting), but it was never cheap even when it was available.
 
+1 Buy what is cheapest that your range allows you to shoot.

I've often heard XXX is the most accurate. Having shot multiple cases of about everything out there, you'd have serious difficulty proving one Commie steel case ammo brand is more accurate than another to statistical significance.

There is some recent US made steel cased ammo that seems to use Hornady bullets. Not tried this yet -- it was a good bit more expensive than Monarch or Wolf.

I like to shoot a lot. I'm willing to shoot at larger targets to compensate for the loss of accuracy with the cheapest ammo. My 7.62x39 AR upper proves Wolf is not as inaccurate as the AK makes it out to be.

--wally.
 
Thanks guys. Been looking for prices, one site quit stocking Silver Bear due to some unspecified problems. Hoping to stay from corrosive but will see how it prices out compared to the rest. Only restriction on my local range is no tracers
 
My favorite is Wolf Military Classic but buy whatever is cheapest. The problems with the laquered ammo were encountered by shooters who shot rapid fire until the gun was smoking hot and then left a round in the chamber for the laquer to cook off and then cool. Make sure to have a fire extinguisher handy if you wanna shoot till your handguards are on fire.
 
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