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After messing with the SKS, I wrote to a friend whose knowledge is encyclopedic about...well, lots of stuff. Here is the transcript.
Does anyone have additional information about a bolt action or single-shot 7.62x39?
(I suspect I already have what I need in the small ring mauser in 7.62 NATO, but...maybe someday I'll buy a lottery ticket, and on that day, maybe I'll win, and after I change my name and move so the kids can't find me, I'll get something like this.
)
Kismet writes:
I'm really liking the 7.62x39 cartridge. Does anyone make a single
shot (that doesn't look like the stock was hewn out of a skid 2x4?)
Not to my knowledge - - The closest thing to what I think you're
seeking is(or mebbe would have been-)a bolt-action sporter
in the caliber, in re:
For years, Finnish firm Sako made three different-size Mauser
derivative actions - the standard(full) size was for .30-06-size,
was factory-termed the L-61, an marketed as the 'Finnibear' here;
The middle(.243 etc)was called the Forester, fergit the number;
And their cuteashell baby mauser was the Vixen, or L-461.
the Vixen action was most common here in .222 and .223(I used
to have a lovely classic sporter in .222...),
BUT! Sakos were also sold locally in Finland.
Which country wasn't in the Warsaw Bloc, but they _did_ adopt
the 7.62x39, making their own curious version of the AK.
Finnish civilians wanted to use the round also, und zo
Sako made cute little sporters on the Vixen for said round.
Such would be the Cadillac of pieces in the caliber...
...that being overly said, very few 7.62 Vixens made it here.
Interarms imported a Yugoslavian-made Mauser action(plus
whole rifles) called the Mark X(I still have a .30-06 on one).
For awhile there, they brought in a baby version called
the 'Mini-Mark X', mainly for .222/3. Given their country
of origin et al, I wouldn't drop dead of shock to learn that
some of these were tailored for 7.62x39...
...and, last-and-probably-least, a run of rifles were brought in from
mainland China, which apparently were captured Japanese
pieces - Arisaka bolt guns made for their kinda-short 6.5mm round.
The Chinese apparently converted a slew of them to, you guessed
it, 7.62x39. These were brought in in fits and starts 12 or 15 years
back. At the time they were dirt cheap, $70-75 or so, but - -
- - two folks I talked to and one I read in some mag had problems
with some crudely-installed chamber insert coming out.
I haven't heard anything on these for some time...
...I know that none of this is very helpful, but it seem that,
in this country, those who really like the little round like it
mainly for its AK and SKS platforms...
...a 'smith who knew what he was doing could build one
on several bolt and break-open or falling block actions,
but such would be beyond your excheuqer, I fear.
Be well and safe.
(My friend is kinda spooky in the depth of his knowledge, eh?)
Does anyone have additional information about a bolt action or single-shot 7.62x39?
(I suspect I already have what I need in the small ring mauser in 7.62 NATO, but...maybe someday I'll buy a lottery ticket, and on that day, maybe I'll win, and after I change my name and move so the kids can't find me, I'll get something like this.
)Kismet writes:
I'm really liking the 7.62x39 cartridge. Does anyone make a single
shot (that doesn't look like the stock was hewn out of a skid 2x4?)
Not to my knowledge - - The closest thing to what I think you're
seeking is(or mebbe would have been-)a bolt-action sporter
in the caliber, in re:
For years, Finnish firm Sako made three different-size Mauser
derivative actions - the standard(full) size was for .30-06-size,
was factory-termed the L-61, an marketed as the 'Finnibear' here;
The middle(.243 etc)was called the Forester, fergit the number;
And their cuteashell baby mauser was the Vixen, or L-461.
the Vixen action was most common here in .222 and .223(I used
to have a lovely classic sporter in .222...),
BUT! Sakos were also sold locally in Finland.
Which country wasn't in the Warsaw Bloc, but they _did_ adopt
the 7.62x39, making their own curious version of the AK.
Finnish civilians wanted to use the round also, und zo
Sako made cute little sporters on the Vixen for said round.
Such would be the Cadillac of pieces in the caliber...
...that being overly said, very few 7.62 Vixens made it here.
Interarms imported a Yugoslavian-made Mauser action(plus
whole rifles) called the Mark X(I still have a .30-06 on one).
For awhile there, they brought in a baby version called
the 'Mini-Mark X', mainly for .222/3. Given their country
of origin et al, I wouldn't drop dead of shock to learn that
some of these were tailored for 7.62x39...
...and, last-and-probably-least, a run of rifles were brought in from
mainland China, which apparently were captured Japanese
pieces - Arisaka bolt guns made for their kinda-short 6.5mm round.
The Chinese apparently converted a slew of them to, you guessed
it, 7.62x39. These were brought in in fits and starts 12 or 15 years
back. At the time they were dirt cheap, $70-75 or so, but - -
- - two folks I talked to and one I read in some mag had problems
with some crudely-installed chamber insert coming out.
I haven't heard anything on these for some time...
...I know that none of this is very helpful, but it seem that,
in this country, those who really like the little round like it
mainly for its AK and SKS platforms...
...a 'smith who knew what he was doing could build one
on several bolt and break-open or falling block actions,
but such would be beyond your excheuqer, I fear.
Be well and safe.
(My friend is kinda spooky in the depth of his knowledge, eh?)
Thanks for your patience 
