AK-74 5.45x39
There's a member on the wanted forum looking for a particular gun in this caliber.
Question: Do any military or police units in the world use this caliber? It's similar to .223 Remington, maybe?
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Russian military
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Apparently, the Russian military still uses that round, as do some former Soviet countries.
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Many Ak savy people think that the 5.45x39 is the best round for the ak platform. Its funny when ammo got hard to find for it I thought about getting one. I figured that with ammo hard to find the price would go down. I was wrong again the price went higher on 5.45 AK's. I settled by getting an AK in 5.56 but that round doesn't function as reliably as the commie stuff does.
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I have a 20 year old AK74 and about 20x 30 round magazines. I shot it some and found it was 'battle rifle accurate' at best with 55 or 60 grain bullets. With 70 grainers, many of the bullets hit sidewise @ 25 yards. I guess that's good enough if you're a really poor marksman any way.
The 5.45x39 V-Max ammo loaded by Hornady is pretty good stuff if shot from an AR 15. My older S&W logo 5.45 AR upper will hold it's own against a decent .223 at 400-500 yards. I have a small amount of RWS 'match grade' FMJ 5.45 ammo that I've been saving to test run in the new 5.45x39 'VooDoo' barreled upper I recently assembled.
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Once upon a time I was told the Russians designed that round so a weapon could fire captured 5.56 ammo but we couldn't fire theirs. Anyone know if this is true?
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Wild Turkey, The 5.45 is shorter than a .223 (39mm vs 45mm) also the 5.45 uses a .2215 bullet.
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Many countries in the world still use it. I had a couple or five, ok, but sticking with the 47 variant and of course the dreaded and hated AR -platform.
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'Once upon a time I was told the Russians designed that round so a weapon could fire captured 5.56 ammo but we couldn't fire theirs. Anyone know if this is true?'
That would be impossible.
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