I did some feed and chambering tests on one of my Turk38's and found that it will actually reliably feed the smaller 7.62x39 ... now I'm stuck with the problem of finding a barrel. I was looking through the archives here and it seems that many a gun has been commercially produced in 7.62x39 with a .308" bore ... seems odd at first but it is pretty much an established fact and there don't seem to be any corporately sponsored warnings about shooting the abundant import ammo with .310" projectiles. Seems as though they are using a gunpowder powered swaging die
Has anyone (re)barreled a 7.62x39 by reaming the chamber in a .308" barrel blank? I was thinking that I might be able to go the Rem700 take-off barrel route if this were a reasonable approach. I'm still investigating, but would appreciate any experiences here.
Thanks,
Saands