6.5 grendel out of 7.62x39

[Red_Beard]

I have heard that back in the early days of the cartridge, people were making the grendel out of the AK round. The price of brass has dropped considerably, but I have a friend whom I recently discovered throws away his spent AK brass and if I can make good use of it I would be more than happy to do the work. Brace yourselves, several questions incoming.

1) Is the military surplus brass he is shooting for the AK worth reloading?
2) Can I resize the brass using just my die and trimmer or does it have to be fire formed?
3) Can I fire form the brass in a gas gun?
4) Does all 7.62 russian brass use the same size primer? The spent cases I was looking at had small rifle primers, but I was looking at some other sources that mentioned that some came with the large.

Thanks for the help in advance

 

[koz]

Re: 6.5 grendel out of 7.62x39

2) Can I resize the brass using just my die and trimmer or does it have to be fire formed?
<span style="color: #FF0000"> I use IMI brass and only use the 6.5G die and did not fire form. I use the 6.5G round as a hunting round so I'm not going for max accuracy but it groups well enough to make a good load. </span>

4) Does all 7.62 russian brass use the same size primer? The spent cases I was looking at had small rifle primers, but I was looking at some other sources that mentioned that some came with the large.

<span style="color: #FF0000">No-Remington uses small rifle while most others use Large rifle. I've used Winchester and IMI - both use LR. </span>

 

[Red_Beard]

Re: 6.5 grendel out of 7.62x39

Koz, thanks for the help. I look forward to trying this at the very least to just get some more affordable trigger time.