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The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×39mm cartridge, first developed and used by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. [1] The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as well as RPD and RPK light machine guns.
[22] [23] In 2017, Ruger began production of a model of the American Rifle in 7.62×39. [24] They have also offered variants of the bolt-action M77 in this caliber. [25] Remington Arms advertised the compact Model 799 Mini Mauser bolt-action rifle chambered in 7.62×39mm in 2006. [26] The Mauser action is a copy of the Gewehr 98 model rifle's ...
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The Ruger M77 is a bolt-action rifle produced by Sturm, Ruger & Co. It was designed by Jim Sullivan during his three years with Ruger. It was designed primarily as a hunting rifle featuring a traditional Mauser K98 -style two-lugged bolt with a claw extractor.
In 1982, Ruger introduced the Ranch Rifle with an integral scope base on the receiver, a new folding-aperture rear sight, and factory scope rings. [15] In 1987, Ruger introduced the Mini Thirty rifle chambered for the Russian 7.62×39mm cartridge. At the time, large quantities of surplus military ammunition were being imported into the United ...
In 2015, Howa introduced the "mini action" for .223 Remington, 7.62x39, and 6.5 mm Grendel. Since introduction of mini-action, in certain markets, short action is now called "standard action". [5] For foreign exports, the barreled action with trigger mechanism are also supplied in a stripped-down form to various small arms manufacturers.
Valmet M76 (milled) – a civilian semi-automatic variant of the RK 62, produced in .243 Winchester, 7.62×39 and .308 Winchester. Valmet M78 (stamped) – an export variant of the RK 62 76 with a strengthened front trunnion, heavier barrel and sight layout of the RK 71, which led to external resemblance to the Soviet RPK .
The Sa vz. 23 were the first production-model submachine guns with a telescoping bolt, which the bolt wraps around the barrel, which made the vz. 26 shorter and more compact than the other submachine guns at the time. By 1953, 545,000 were produced in Uherský Brod, 345,000 of which were of the 7.62 mm Tokarev variants.