Bear Creek Arsenal 7.62x39 Complete Upper - Tested & Reviewed by American Viking Testing 

The Duramag 7.62x39 - 28 round mag has been the most reliable mag for me with my BCA 7.62x39 RS charger. The AK47 curve of the magazine is essential with 7.62x39 ammo to feed properly without binding in the mag. I am using the standard BCA lower with BCM B5 furniture. This is my most reliable rifle! Love it!

Thanks for making this review man. Had a spare lower setting around and wanted something cheap to burn up some old 7.62x39. Great video, really happy to have gone this route instead of spending an arm and a leg for another AL

I agree bear creek arsenal is a great product

I just replaced my BCA 10.5" 7.62x39 upper with a BCA 16" right side charging upper (model 911 ). Mounted on an Aero Precision M4E1 lower with Aero lower parts kit and ALG/ACT trigger & Viltor A5h2 buffer system. First 400rd results. 4 shots to achieve a 50yrd zero. Then 3 shot groups at 25yrds & 50yrds. 25yrds .581" group. 50yrd group was 1.2". Then first 3 shot group at 100yrds was .98" all with the factory flash hider it came with. Me and the range officer couldn't believe it. 4 more 100yrd 3 shot groups resulting in 1.0- 1.5" groups. Then installed a Griffin flash comp and 30SDK suppressor. 25yrd & 50yrd groups were just shy of 1" lower but all same hole. 4 more 100yrd 3 shot groups resulting in just over 1" lower and 1-1.5" groups. Then installed my KGM R30T suppressor. 25yrd and 50yrd groups 1" low & 1/2" left. 25yrds same hole & 50yrd all shots touching. 4 100yrd 3 shot groups 1.25"-1.75" groups. That was with PPU brass case. Shot 5 more different brands of brass case 7.62x39 resulting in 3/4"-1.5" groups at 50yrds and 1"-2" 100yrd groups. My 100yrd groups were consistently no more than a 1/2"-1" higher than my 50yrd groups. All the 25yrd groups were consistently 2.5" low due to sight over bore. The first zeroing shots and groups were with a $149 Firefield RapidStrike SFP 1-6×24 with dingy glass simply to test the capabilities of a true "poverty upper & LPVO build". All subsequent groupings were made with a "still budget" Vortex Strike Eagle II 1-8 in a $125 Riton QD cantilever mount sitting on a $19.99 .5" Leapers UTG Super Slim Picatinny Riser Mount. The Aero lower outfitted BCM SOPMOD furniture cost me more than the complete upper. The observing range officer said it had to be a sampl of 1 fluke. I had to remind him that the 10.5" BCA upper it replaced got put through the exact same testing, and the worst 100yrd grouping out of it was 2.5". And to really rub it in, I took the last 6rds of the best shooting PPU brass and took 2 rapid shots each at 25;50; & 100yrds suppressed ( using my holdovers). That resulted in a 6 shot group that was all touching and .75" tall and 1" wide. Then I followed that up with 15rds of 123gr Igman brass all rapid shots suppressed at 50yrds and that groups was within 2.75" tall and 3" wide. Only problem I've had out of the 2 uppers was the 16" upper handguard was slightly loose after the first 200 or so rds. Removed it checked out the gas block and barrel nut (everything looked good) and reinstalled with blue loctite. Don't know if I simply got lucky on both purchases or not. But I'm thoroughly impressed and few of my local gun range RO's were left quite salty but impressed, after ragging on my "7.62x39 poverty build". Them😢😢😢. Me😅😅😅😅!! Aso, this thing is ejecting brass at 3 o ⏰️ suppressed with absolutely no gas to my face. Right side charging charging handle for the win🏆. Ok. I'm done😅

I have a BCA 7.62x39 right side charger. On a CMMG lower. I used a Black Rifle Arms enhanced firing pin and heavy hammer spring and H2 buffer to get it to cycle and fire. Using a cheap 1.5-8X Barska scope and cheap Walmart bipod, I am getting 2-3 MOA groups at 100 yards and 3-4 MOA at 200 yards. Sufficient, I would say, for a "budget" build.

Got the same upper on sale for 159.00. I waited because the new cold hammer forged barrels pushed the prices down on the Gen 2. Got a right to bear arms extractor(looks like a 6.5 creedmore extractor), stainless steel enhanced firing pin, bravo A5 buffer system, heavy hammer spring, lighter trigger spring and topped it off with a Steiner T432 prism scope. Nice groups with mine 1/2 to 1 MOA at 50 meters.

BCA just ran a deal on the 16'' upper in 7.62X39mm for $199.99. I bought 1 to go on the $99.99 complete lower I bought from them last year. The only downside so far is neither upper or lower came with a magazine so I bought 2 DuraMag C Mags a 10 and a 28 round for it. These are supposed to be the best in feeding 7.62X39mm from and AR platform. I installed a 3lb Timney trigger I got on sale for $129.99. +$5.00 shipping. Total cost with 2 mags, Timney 3lb trigger and all shipping is $474.00. I dont think you can go wrong for that price. I hope it shoots well.

They have deals on them from 76239,556,9mm,40, and the cold hammer-forged barrels ones are only 200 dollars, they only cost 220$ when in season deals, if you keep looking.

Awesome review. What buffer and spring did you use.

Great video! I’m looking at getting a PSA gen 2 ks47 lower for my BCA upper but I notice that on the description for the lower it says that it will only fit PSA uppers, and I would like to know before I actually pull the trigger on buying (no pun intended)

Great video! So I can buy the 762x39 upper and use an ar-15 lower and it will work? If that the case that is great. After 8 months would you do it again? Thank you!

Duramag stright up . Asc garbage yes sir. Stoner mags are good. D&H ok as well Almost everything else but asc is better than asc

Bca are good quality for rear charging handle with all rifle rounds though, sude charger is dumb really

I like your video man, but can you turn the music down a bit in the future

Where can I buy 7.62 at a decent price? Seeing lots of out-of-stocks and ridiculous prices.

On your lower is it running AR mags or is it running AK mags

Did they ship to your door or do you have to go to nearest gun store?? Looking to get one today please get back to me as soon as possible.

You get a lot for your money with BCA .

What mags do you suggest?

does it shoot the steel case ammo and eject well

This upper and the psa ks47 lower so it takes ak mags

So what mags you using