What are the best and cheapest American made 7.62x39 cartridges out there? Are there any American steel case manufacturers? TIA
Not American (Serbian), but Prvi Partizan makes some really good stuff–especially for the price. Haven’t shot any 7.62x39. I can vouch for their pistol calibers, and my basically off the shelf DPMS carbine in 308 is sub-MOA with their soft points out to 200 yards (never punched paper beyond that, could be sub-MOA even farther than that).
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Used this in my BCA upper/PSA lower last weekend and worked well. Granted was only about 40 rounds at 25-50 yards ( indoor range). Bought it off Midway USA a while back for about .50 a round.
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Fiocchi is an Italian company with plants in the USA so chances are good that anything you find in the US are made in the US. It’s not steel, it’s brass which is ok by me cuz it means I can save the brass and reload it. I can find it at times for around $18-$19 a box of 20.
The PPU ammo is brass as well and about the same price.
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The only actual U.S. made stuff I know of is expensive hunting cartridges. Most of the brass stuff you will see, is imported. PPU, Belom, Fiocchi, S&B, PMC and Geco, are all brass imports that are fine. There is a new one called Mesko that I’ve seen lately, that is a Polish company, but I haven’t fired any of it yet. Oh and another ex Yugoslavian is ZVS, but I haven’t fired it either. Edit: another one I forgot about is Igman. They are now importing new mfg non corrosive brass ammo, but you have to make sure you aren’t getting the old corrosive Yugo surplus stuff.
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My thoughts
Someone here in the US needs to come together and run the sh!t out of
7.62x39 and 7.62x35
Two production lines running 24x7x360 days a year…give or take.
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I don’t know how long it takes to set up an ammo line, but I imagine close to a year considering the permits and zoning you have to get.
Dang, just looked it up. They don’t have the x39 on their USA list. Maybe they will add it if enough guys request it?
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I’ve seen Hornady and Federal, but it was all $1.25 a round or more and scarce. I’m just going to keep buying what imports we have and stack as deep as I can.
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Huge opportunity in my mind, but possibly a motivation to start learning how to reload.
only problem with reloading that I’m finding is getting cases at a decent price. Most places have been sold out a while ago too. I saw a guy on arfcom EE that was selling bags but he had 1000 cases and I didn’t want that many. Now I’m kicking myself for not jumping when I had the chance.
ok, that’s not the only problem, finding primers is going to be fun now too, especially at a decent price.
update; ha, I just found a guy that says he got 250 for a great price.
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Yugoslavian… It’s 1975 brass cased, but well preserved and ready to head down range. I paid, $645.53 for a 1240 round case, $50.50 Shipping and $45.54 Tax (The guys that want to take our stuff away is still getting a cut?). Haven’t had time to shoot but I have no doubts. TOTAL $696.03 or 55 CPR (Cents Per Round)
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It would have to be an extremely Automated factory.
American health care costs make it difficult to manufacture anything in the US.
When I started in Silicon Valley there was LOADS of manufacturing.
There was even a Westinghouse factory in Sunnyvale, cranking out 40 foot diameter steel gears. First cast and then machined.
I did not like to see all that manufacturing capacity torn down, but that is what happened.
Has there been any updates on the PSA operation? I have heard multiple gun sources say PSA is going into the ammo business but have yet to see anything from PSA directly.
AAC ammo on PSA’s site
Already selling 9mm, getting close on some rifle rounds
People have been talking about it on this forum in multiple threads
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