[IowaShooter]

It was cold, cold, cold and windy… 23 degrees and 23mph winds

While our rifle range bays are in a 3-sided building… it was still cold… did I say it was cold?

I had to beat @Coalcracker to a full range report…so here goes



Ammo

I used 122gr Tulammo FMJ, 122gr Red Army FMJ, 123gr Wolf HP and 123 gr PPU FMJ brass cased

Rifle

- the side-charging BCA upper, chambered in 7.62x39 with 16” heavy barrel with 1:10 twist, features a fancy spiral flash hider and a special bolt carrier group and firing pin supposedly made to better handle commie steel-case ammo and the hard primers often found therein

- the upper sits atop an Anderson lower I assembled years ago and sports a drop-in 3.5 lb trigger and oversized trigger guard

- the curved 10rd mag is from D&H tactical

- the cheap China-made 3-9x32 scope sits atop a couple of Burris risers

Observations

- While I had picked up an M-lok attachment for the hand guard on the way to the range… it was too cold to put it on (that’s how i affix my bipod) so I instead used the wood rests we have at the range

- I sighted in the rifle at 25yds (not perfectly… but within 1/2-1” of point of aim) and then fired many groups of 3 -to- 5 rounds at 25yds… with various types of ammo. Even tried a a couple of full mags of 10rds

- I could not tell the difference, at all, in accuracy at 25yd between any of the ammo

- however… the TulAmmo had a handful of light strikes and so did the Red Army (all fired when I ran them back through)

- the Wolf and the PPU had no light strikes

- sans the light strikes on the Tulammo and Red Army, the mag and rifle performed 100% with the approx. 100 rds I ran though it… no failures to feed or eject and I was very pleased

- the brass ended up about 10 feet behind and 10 feet to the right… quite normal in my estimation compared to my other AR platform rifles in 5.56 and .308

- I believe BCA got it right with this upper in 7.62x39

I moved the target to 50yds and took 10 shots

 

[AgedWarrior]

Ugh! I remember winter range time in Iowa…brrr. Sounds like the rifle did good first time out. Congrats!

 

[Oldoutlaw]

Ugh! I remember winter range time in Iowa…brrr. Sounds like the rifle did good first time out. Congrats!

You could come up and visit during the winter. Toughen you up a bit.

 

[Oldoutlaw]

- however… the TulAmmo had a handful of light strikes and so did the Red Army (all fired when I ran them back through)

Yep, to be expected from those two.

 

[Oldoutlaw]

It was cold, cold, cold and windy… 23 degrees and 23mph winds

While our rifle range bays are in a 3-sided building… it was still cold… did I say it was cold?

I had to beat @Coalcracker to a full range report…so here goes



Ammo

I used 122gr Tulammo FMJ, 122gr Red Army FMJ, 123gr Wolf HP and 123 gr PPU FMJ brass cased

Rifle

- the side-charging BCA upper, chambered in 7.62x39 with 16” heavy barrel with 1:10 twist, features a fancy spiral flash hider and a special bolt carrier group and firing pin supposedly made to better handle commie steel-case ammo and the hard primers often found therein

- the upper sits atop an Anderson lower I assembled years ago and sports a drop-in 3.5 lb trigger and oversized trigger guard

- the curved 10rd mag is from D&H tactical

- the cheap China-made 3-9x32 scope sits atop a couple of Burris risers

View attachment 149148


Observations

- While I had picked up an M-lok attachment for the hand guard on the way to the range… it was too cold to put it on (that’s how i affix my bipod) so I instead used the wood rests we have at the range

- I sighted in the rifle at 25yds (not perfectly… but within 1/2-1” of point of aim) and then fired many groups of 3 -to- 5 rounds at 25yds… with various types of ammo. Even tried a a couple of full mags of 10rds

- I could not tell the difference, at all, in accuracy at 25yd between any of the ammo

- however… the TulAmmo had a handful of light strikes and so did the Red Army (all fired when I ran them back through)

- the Wolf and the PPU had no light strikes

- sans the light strikes on the Tulammo and Red Army, the mag and rifle performed 100% with the approx. 100 rds I ran though it… no failures to feed or eject and I was very pleased

- the brass ended up about 10 feet behind and 10 feet to the right… quite normal in my estimation compared to my other AR platform rifles in 5.56 and .308

- I believe BCA got it right with this upper in 7.62x39

I moved the target to 50yds and took 10 shots

View attachment 149149

I have a 480 round case of Belom Brass case due here Saturday, Add it to my 380 rounds already here and I am pretty good on ammo for my AR.

 

[Coalcracker]

Good to hear you got out. How do you the scope so far? Im thinking about one of their FFP scopes. Mine also throws the brass back about 10 feet about 4-5:00. And no dents in the casings.

 

[IowaShooter]

Good to hear you got out. How do you the scope so far? Im thinking about one of their FFP scopes. Mine also throws the brass back about 10 feet about 4-5:00. And no dents in the casings.

Well my $64 scope allowed me to see the target at 50yds…

my old eyes could use a more expensive scope with better glass… but to go out beyond 50yds I have to have higher power… and it’s gets expensive very fast to get a Leupold or similar

I’m fine with these less expensive scopes… I use Vortex and Visms… and have one Leupold

 

[Coalcracker]

Maybe a Sig buckmasters 4x12x44 would work, They are nice scopes for the money. And the 4x12x44 often come on sale for 100.00 free shipping. Some one here recommended them to me. I now have 4 in use.

 

[AgedWarrior]

You could come up and visit during the winter. Toughen you up a bit.

Maybe summer…
Summer here in west Texas will toughen you up a bit too. Actually, we are thinking of making a visit to Iowa, possibly this year around fall.

 

[IowaShooter]

Maybe a Sig buckmasters 4x12x44 would work, They are nice scopes for the money. And the 4x12x44 often come on sale for 100.00 free shipping. Some one here recommended them to me. I now have 4 in use.

Will take a look, thank you

 

[Square target]

I have been wanting to build a 7.62x39 AR. Maybe I'll just get one of these uppers and have it so I can use it on one of my rifles. Of course living in Commie York I'll have to either remove the gas tube and spin the block or see if someone makes a 7.62x39 fixed mag.