Which bullet for deer with the 7.62 Russian Short?

by Sarge , Central Misery, Wednesday, August 10, 2016, 13:07 (2965 days ago) @ Catoosa
edited by Sarge, Wednesday, August 10, 2016, 13:13

Some years back I had the ugly task of sorting through a multiple homicide in which Norinco 7.62x39 soft point with the mild steel jacket was used. The brittle jacket shatters and the stuff literally acts like a big varmint bullet in flesh and autopsy/radiology confirmed cavitation and fragmentation way out of proportion to the cartridge used. Any of the soft points with magnetic jackets should yield similar results.

I have used a little of it and it is a coyote stomper to about 100 yards. Would be fine for deer within the same parameters as plain vanilla 223 SP. Avoid raking shots.

Wolf/Tula also offer a 154 grain softpoint that acted like a regular hunting bullet when turned on water jugs backed by a catalog. Haven't killed anything with it yet though.

http://soviet-steel.com/showthread.php?t=3110