Bear Creek 7.62x39 upper

[chrisk]

Came in today. Mine has the side and rear charging handle, 16” Spiral fluted heavy stainless barrel and spiral brake.
Don’t know what optic or sights I plan to put on it yet. When I get ammo and out to the range I will give you guys a report.

[FireNguns]

Own several. No issues. I think you will be happy.

[chrisk]

Hope so, thanks for the confidence booster

[Hills of Texas]

I bought a 223 upper from them as a first trial. Shoots great. I bet you are pleased with the upper. I was.

[geezer56]

I probably killed 50 hogs with a BCA 7.62x39 upper on an Anderson lower. Mine was a side charge, which comes in really handy under a thermal. It ate everything I fed it, mostly steel cased ammo. My new pig gun is a 350 legend, side charge, also a BCA. No hiccups with it so far either. I think most of the bad press on Bear Creek is from gun snobs that think because it is affordable it must be crap.

[chrisk]

Mine has an Anderson lower I built with a Palmetto parts kit that has Magpul furniture

[chrisk]

Bought a few boxes of Norma. If the brass is good for reloading I may save the brass and buy more. Anyone reload with the Norma brass? I only have experience with it in my Weatherby’s.

[shwacker1911]

Mine likes the winchester soft points and the old Russian hollow points

[PVDT]

I have one that shoots Barnaul at 1.25” groups at 100 yds. I routinely shoot it at 500 yards to practice. It’ll hit 4 out of 5 on a 10 inch steel plate at 500 every time. Most times it’s 5 out of 5. If you want a x39 steel ammo to do better than that you’re dreaming. I couldn’t be more pleased with my BCA.

[chrisk]

Kinda hard to complain about that.

[Raider4044]

Bought a few boxes of Norma. If the brass is good for reloading I may save the brass and buy more. Anyone reload with the Norma brass? I only have experience with it in my Weatherby’s.

Norma is generally very good brass. Not Lapua good, but a lot better than Hornady or any other cheaper stuff.

[PVDT]

I would replace the extractor. After quite a bit of research, I replaced the factory BCA that broke within 50 rounds with a Black Rifle Arms phosphated extractor. Phosphated is much stronger than a nitrided extractor. I’m not sure if it’s a direct replacement now or not. My gun required a bolt assembly replacement to use their extractor. Somehow BCAs were or are a different assembly. I have since shot over 1k rounds with no problems. If you’re interested, the bolt assembly part number is 15051945 and the extractor only part number is 2010011 (I bought a couple extras).

[Buckwheat]

Love my 7.62x39. AR. Shoots good and dependable.


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[bloodtrail18]

The only trouble I had was with a standard firing pin in my x39. Swap out the milspec pin with an extended FP and you're good to shoot even the cheapest steel case ammo.

[Tony Pic]

I have Russian 30 upper from Bear Creek. It functions fine and was a heck of a bargain.