{"id":85793,"date":"2026-01-03T01:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=85793"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:39:25","slug":"ak-corner-7-62x39mm-gel-test-7-loads-put-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/ak-corner-7-62x39mm-gel-test-7-loads-put-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"AK Corner: 7.62x39mm Gel Test – 7 Loads Put to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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7.62x39mm Gel Test – 7 Loads Put to the Test<\/a><\/h1>\n

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This article originally appeared in Firearms News August 2020 Issue 16. Pick up a copy to read more articles like this one.<\/em><\/h2>\n

While the AR-\u00ad15 is undeniably America\u2019s darling, there are now more AKs in circulation in this country than ever before, and most of them are chambered in the original 7.62x39mm cartridge.<\/h2>\n

While the 7.62×39 is considered the \u201cintermediate assault rifle cartridge against which all others are judged,\u201d few people actually know what kind of performance they can expect from the cartridge out of an AK.<\/h2>\n

For this article, I decided to test seven 7.62x39mm loads, some similar, several very different. I chose them based on a number of factors \u2014 availability, price, and (advertised) performance. My ammo list included American Eagle FMJ, premium defensive ammo from Winchester and\u00a0Hornady<\/a>, and steel-\u00adcased Russian-\u00admade ammo from Wolf and Barnaul. My plan was to measure velocity, accuracy, and terminal performance using ballistic gel blocks.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Firearms News<\/a><\/h2>\n

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7.62x39mm Gel Test – 7 Loads Put to the Test   This article originally appeared in Firearms News August 2020 Issue 16. Pick up a copy to read more articles like this one. While the AR-\u00ad15 is undeniably America\u2019s darling, there are now more AKs in circulation in this country than ever before, and most…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1303,5977,3786,5445,13890,1307,6199,7357,24,1309],"tags":[19121,5490,8744,658,637,660],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85794,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85793\/revisions\/85794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}