RE: 7.62X39 needs a new name
 

Depends on which ammo counter you walk up to! In Walmart, chances are pretty good they won't have a clue. But sometimes you get surprised in Walmart, too!

RE: 7.62X39 needs a new name
 

It is a popular, oft-repeated MYTH that the 7.62X39mm is a copy of the German 7.92mm Kurz round. It is actually a parallel development which came to fruition at almost the same time as the German round. The Soviet designer Simonov (originator of the SKS) was experimenting with low-recoil, assault-type semioauto rifles as early as just after WWI. One of his rifles was even chambered for the 6.5X50 Jap cartridge, in his search for a low-recoil arm!

RE: 7.62X39 needs a new name
 

El- good info.

I had always thought that Mr Kalishnakov happened to poke around with a few captured STG-44s after the war and said to himself "gee this is a neat design, I think I'll copy it and improve on it a little in the process"

I didn't know Siminov was experimenting with intermediate rounds before the war, I had always assumed that the 7.62x39 was an adaptation of the German's concept, considering that the Russian gas operated semiautos contemporary to the STG-44 still fired full house 7.62x54r cartridges.

RE: 7.62X39 needs a new name
 

7.62 Soviet.

RE: 7.62X39 needs a new name
 

There arethree Soviet rounds that use 7.62 bullets so that wouldn't work.

RE: 7.62X39 needs a new name
 

just though of a nother name "30 PPC"

RE: 7.62X39 needs a new name
 

The 7.62x39mm M43 assault rifle cartridge is also referred to as 7.62mm Soviet, 7.62mm Short, 7.62mm Warsaw Pact, or 7.62mm ComBloc. The 7.62x39mm is also known in the USA as the 30 Short Russian to distinguish it from the 30 Russian, which is the 7.62x54mmR.

The 7.62x54mm R rifle cartridge is the oldest cartridge still in use by any military in the world. It is also referred to as the 7.62mm Russian or as previously mentioned the 30 Russian.

The 7.62x25mm TT bottle-necked pistol cartridge is also referred to as the 7.62mm Tokarev or .30 Tokarev.