Is 7.62x39 Still Worth It In 2024?

7.62x39 is fine but 5.45 be kinda dead

I've been buying the Eastern European manufactured Belom brand. NATO spec ammo in most calibers. Clean burning. Reloadable. Consistent high velocity in 7.62x39. I'm paying about 50¢ a round when I catch it on sale. I picked up 1000 rounds of S&B PSP hunting ammo 7.62X39 last week for 60¢ a round.

No. Am i gonna sell mine? also no.

Winchester Makes 762 x 39.

Should have bought it when it was really available back in the 90s.

"outside of the AR" key words there...most people are thinking AR vs AK...AR ammo is now cheaper.
"what do you have to lose?" being stuck with a gun that you cannot shoot because all US made AK ammo is over 1$ a round.

X39 is a cool round. Hope to see a nice, long future for the round

As long as the ammo prices are moderately high the poor cannot stockpile!

I must say I have purchased to 762 by 39 uppers from Bear Creek Arsenal they shoot phenomenally extremely accurate and I usually shoot out to two hundred yards normal but I have shot pigs at 4 to 500 yards with this Bear Creek Upper and the 762 by 39 thank you BCA

Everybody needs to ignore any bs rules this administration puts out. Just continue the ammo imports. There's not enough ATF and lawmen to bust everyone.. just overload the system with civil disobedience. FJB and the all the puppet masters

Stick up on a couple of thousands of rounds !!! Yeah no problem ….. I only have 120 rounds for my ar. And injured from a car wreck . Got a daughter going to kindergarten this year . We’re just praying none of this bs actually happens here in the states ,but would you buy another ar and more ar ammo or an ak

Itll be everywhere after WW3

I think its worth it, I bought one of your 7.62x39 complete rifles an love plinking with it, along with my first love an SKS. Ballisticaly its equal to a 30/30 an thats good enough for me.

You can find 7.62x39 ammo all over the net

15.99 where I am for cheapest box of 20 or you can get box of 15 for $12

In 2017 it was 180 bucks per thousand of X39 lord I wish I knew this shit I would have gotten 10K rounds

Give me the 7.62!

30/30 isn't exclusively made in the US but it is for the most part though PPU does make ammunition in Serbia

Not true, the driving force was not sanctions on Russia. We still bring in plenty of Russian goods. The driving force was to cut off 40-45% of the American citizens’ ammo supply and steadily suffocate our liberty.

Today x39is losing to 556 in cost per round. But it shouldn’t be. And x39 still is a hard hitter

7.62x39mm is made all over the world it is not going anywhere.

This year 7.62 went up a bit sadly...

7.62x39 is not something I stock since I own AR’s but PSA has something close and modern (PS47 I think?). It’s a very good round and that caliber in a modern platform is ideal for me. Regardless of the price, I think it would be a good idea to join the 7.62x39 community.

Kalashnikov USA makes it in America.

As of now you can still get Russian ammo online. Prices are not what we would like to see but that’s most rifle calibers. When 5.56x45 goes back down to $300 for a 1,000 round case and 7.62x39 is more expensive then there is an argument.

you were also ignoring that it’s still being imported and now in larger quantities from countries like Bulgaria, Kazakhstan (I think that the country, I know it starts with a ‘K’), Romania and Palmetto State Armory’s gonna start making it in a few years.

This is still a capitalist country and there are plenty of other countries that would love getting our American dollars that otherwise would’ve gone to Russia.

Doesn’t China make 7.62x39 ammo? We haven’t put sanctions on them.

I don't care who makes it or where it comes from, I just want it to cost no more than 35cpr.

I know the days of 18cpr x39 are gone.

The people who bought 7.62X39 years ago for $4.50 to $5 were very smart. There is plenty of it today from Arsenal of Bulgaria, GO branded. But even when PSA spins up their AK 47-74 and 54R production, I don't see 7.62X39 getting below 38 cents per round shipped. It might be scarce in stores, but you can always get it online for 40 cpr or less. I don't expect this to fluctuate much in the next few years. Arsenal BG is a military contractor. They can crank out as much as is needed. The same goes for Igman and PPU.

JUST OPENED MY BOX FROM BEAR CREEK AND SHOT 100 ROUNDS OF TULU 7.62X39 FROM MY LEFT SIDE BC15. NO JAMS AND ONLY TWO NO FIRES . PRETTY HAPPY.

PSA is going to start making steel case in the US. The shortage will be goon by the end of 2023.

still cheaper than supersonic 300blk so I'd argue that it's still relevant

I’ve been buying my 7.62x39 from Global Ordnance/Arsenal and it’s been very accurate and consistent ammo manufactured in Bulgaria.

I for now am regulating my 7.62 AR15 upper to training. Premature extractor breakage seems to be given for AR15 bolts set up to handle 7.62x39. There was an internet claim that Young manufacturing bolts have a superior extractor. I will have to test that out. For now for self defense the 300 blackout chambered AR is more reliable than is the 7.62x39 AR15 upper. A broken extract make an AR good for just one shot.


PSA announces plans to make steel case russian calibers. No mention of pricing, but if the steel case is boxer primed it may be reloadable.


''McCallum said in his post that PSA had indeed been working on building their own steel-cased ammunition production facility. They planned to start churning out Russian calibers first, including 5.45×39, which some combloc fans worried would disappear from shelves completely in the US.

PSA’s decision to make these calibers wasn’t directly related to the Russian ammo ban, though. McCallum said in his post that PSA’s ammo production facility had already been under construction for a year. “Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than right,” he commented in his post.''

7.62 is everywhere in my area. Tula wolf red army all that good stuff.

<-- 10k rounds Barnhaul 7.62x39mm

You can get a thousand rounds of 7.62 for just $20 more than 5.56.

This is your role right here, it suits you well.....👍

It's .300 blk but actually affordable.

8m still buying 7.62x39 with no issue good thing it is made in more then just 1 country the price is still half of what it was 2 years ago. I wish I made a 300 HAM'R or at least a barrel for one

30-30 is basically being crowded out and artificially pumped up. More calibers means higher cost.

7.62x54r AR-10. Make it happen

Absolutely no issue finding 7.62x39 for me…

It's so damn expensive to shoot nowadays 3 years ago I used to by 1000 7.62x39 or 1000 223. Tula or wolf For only $187 shipped from brownells those days are long gone

Russia now peg their rubles to gold, so there will be no more cheap Russian ammo even if the sanction is lifted. We need to figure out how to make them cheap here.

Great round. With the right projectile can be used to take about any game in North America.

Winchester just announced their new products for 23 and one of them was white box 7.62x39!

Save it for the ak's. 300 close.

during the ammo crunch here in texas you couldnt buy a 22lr but you could always find 7.62x39

7.62x39 is just a good caliber to stock, since most non-NATO nations use this.

Oh wow, I wish I could find it that cheap - usually out of stock locally for me, and haven't seen it below 49 cents a round since the ban