Mini 30 with Wolf 7.62x39
05-02-2004, 11:11 AM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
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RE: Mini 30 with Wolf 7.62x39
I have a mini-30 and I shoot wolf ammo all the time. I don't have a problem with abnormal buildup and it seems to be decently accurate out to about 150 yards. All I've been shooting is pie plates and man sized training targets. Seems fine. Wolf is cheap for a reason but I find it to believe that it's going to damage your gun or anything silly like that.
05-02-2004, 08:44 PM
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Eagles Landing, KS
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RE: Mini 30 with Wolf 7.62x39
The Wolf and Barnaul ammo I have measures .311. The UMC I have measures .308.
The mini- thirty I used to own said in the manual to use only American made ammo or ammo of .308 dia.
The guy I sold it to has put several hundred rounds of .311 through it and no problems.
Go figure!
The mini- thirty I used to own said in the manual to use only American made ammo or ammo of .308 dia.
The guy I sold it to has put several hundred rounds of .311 through it and no problems.
Go figure!
05-03-2004, 05:30 PM
#23
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Texas - BUT NOW in Madison County, NY
Posts: 6,270
RE: Mini 30 with Wolf 7.62x39
ORIGINAL: Rick Teal
The Mini 30 has a maximum barrel diameter of .308, while the actual spec of the 7.62X39 is something between .310 and .311. If Wolf ammo is produced with bullets of this diameter I'd be hesitant to use it in the Mini 30. I would expect it to produce additional wear on the barrel and additional pressure on the gas system.
The Mini 30 has a maximum barrel diameter of .308, while the actual spec of the 7.62X39 is something between .310 and .311. If Wolf ammo is produced with bullets of this diameter I'd be hesitant to use it in the Mini 30. I would expect it to produce additional wear on the barrel and additional pressure on the gas system.
The Wolf ammo will NOT DAMAGE your Mini-30 at all. I don't know if all Mini-30's have .308" groove diameter bores or not, but the ones that do have a leade angle designed to permit the use of 7.62X39mm ammo with bullet diameters of .308" up to at least .311" with no undue pressures.
05-03-2004, 10:25 PM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Body in SE WI, mind in U.P.
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RE: Mini 30 with Wolf 7.62x39
Slug the bore, it will give you all the answers you need. I wouldn't shoot oversized jacketed bullets in a rifle- You can be running very high pressures and not know it. The rifle might be fine for 100 or 500 rounds, but then then something lets go on the rifle and BLAM!
If ruger made the rifles with .308 groves, then its pretty idiotic of them- it would be like making a rifle chambered for .308 and only cutting the rifling to .304" across.
If ruger made the rifles with .308 groves, then its pretty idiotic of them- it would be like making a rifle chambered for .308 and only cutting the rifling to .304" across.
