Thread: Loading 7.62x39 subsonic from steel cased factory ammo

Originally Posted by longshot

.44 mag has to go a bit slower than the smaller calibers in order to stay subsonic (the wider the projectile the earlier it breaks the SB)
At subsonic or around about subsonic seems to be the speed at which projectiles just don’t have the ripping effect of the high speed stuff.
I have found that it is just as important if not more so to hit CNS with subsonic .44 mag as with .30 cal subs or .22 sub.

Im just finding them less affective than the 30cal subs but thats probably also just due to projectile design
Ill throw a few over the chroni and confirm the speed they are going
really I just need to get over my straight walled reloading problems and make my own with something like robert makes for the 30cals
that or go to town with the drill and open up these cast coated ones into a hollow points