By A Mystery Man Writer
The typical military load for the 7.62x39 uses 123-grain bullets. Our pressure barrel, which was 1:10, shot these and bullets up to about 150 grains very well. We did shoot some 160-grain bullets and noticed some evidence of yawing on the target.
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