To: mylife
I had a Bulgarian AK74 sporter follow me home from Widener’s this past week. I opened a box of non-corrosive 5.45 x 39 to feed it and discovered that the cartridges are a tad longer than a 5.56 x 45 round! How can that be? Isn’t the “39” the length of the bullet?
21 posted on
10/06/2013 5:24:52 PM PDT by
MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
The projectile is longer.
It’s a tumbling SOB.
Congrats on the Bulgy 74
26 posted on
10/06/2013 5:29:51 PM PDT by
mylife
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To: MHGinTN
To: MHGinTN
The second number is the length of the case.
The 5.45X39 is more bottlenecked but the projectile is longer.
29 posted on
10/06/2013 5:31:43 PM PDT by
mylife
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To: MHGinTN
To: MHGinTN
39mm is the length of the case, IIRC.
32 posted on
10/06/2013 5:34:19 PM PDT by
Charles Martel
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