So much for the reliable AK 47
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....and at a couple of hundred dollars US per rifle, bought in quantity, the price doesn't hurt either - then there's the cheap ammo. The AK is popular because it's the cheapest thing that works well enough.
Not entirely correct - there was the Israeli War of Independance 1948 fought with leftovers from WW2, the Malayan emergency 1950's (ditto), I've never seen a report of it used in Korea, the French portion of the Viet Nam War, lots of border clashes in India (India-Pakistan), the Belgian Congo and a couple of smaller liberation wars (Cuba for example). It's safer to say that it's been used in most wars since 1965 though.
I'd take a SA vz 58 or a SKS over an AK 47 anyday.
As far as I am concerned, an AK is only good to be thrown in a smelter and the metal used to make more VZ 58s and SKSs.
Just curious what would be your reasons for such statement?
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Back in the good ole days, I had a folding stock Polish 1959 AK (converted to semi and a barrel extension welded on). Fired thousands of rounds through it. I did everything I could think of to see if it would ever jam, and I never once got it to malfunction. It was minute of pieplate accurate, offhand. It just FELT right. Too bad our government got stupid about it. I'd buy another in a heartbeat as a deer gun. My wife shot a huge cow moose with it in '89 - 3 shots in the lungs at 220 paces.
For accuracy, my money goes to NATO weapons. For reliability (at least in auto's), it's ComBloc all the way.
Back in the good ole days, I had a folding stock Polish 1959 AK (converted to semi and a barrel extension welded on). Fired thousands of rounds through it. I did everything I could think of to see if it would ever jam, and I never once got it to malfunction. It was minute of pieplate accurate, offhand. It just FELT right. Too bad our government got stupid about it. I'd buy another in a heartbeat as a deer gun. My wife shot a huge cow moose with it in '89 - 3 shots in the lungs at 220 paces.
For accuracy, my money goes to NATO weapons. For reliability (at least in auto's), it's ComBloc all the way.
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AK's are cool
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i'd love to have an AK if i could ever own one.
you could say that about the camera work too
That's not a russian AK. Period. May be some cheap clone loaded with sh*t and modified like no tomorrow. (guessing)
ps you have to know the history of the gun maintenance and ammo used (selfreloaded rounds not to spec) + other details (replaced parts etc) to make a conclusion of what actually happened. Generalizations are not made from the single incident especially something you know nothing about. Made in Russia properly maintained gun loaded with proper ammo will never blow up, even if dragged in the dirt or submerged in water.
There fixed that up a little.
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I'd still give acouple fingers for an ak, just not the important ones.
I'm not a big fan of the AK because it is a clumsy and crude contraption, and is known for mediocre accuracy and short effective range.
I read the Chinese used the type 56 AK for a few years before dropping it and going back to the SKS because they were not impressed with its accuracy in semi-auto and the fact that it was really difficult to handle in full-auto.
They first relegated it to the same role as the submachine gun during the '70s and then they phased it out along with the SKS when they replaced both with the type 81 in the mid-80s.
Limp wristing it. That's what happened. Trust me, I am a doctor!
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Clumsy and crude?
Strange, the 'clumsy and crude contraption' will outfight any other weapon in the hardest conditions you can imagine.
It is simple and elegant, built for close-quarters combat. It isn't made to snipe at a distance; it is made to drop the enemy in house-to-house fighting or in the thickest jungle - blasting through whatever barriers it must to hit the target on the opposite side. It will fight through sand, it will fight through mud, it will fight through rain and it will fight through blood.
It is the most reliable weapon ever made.
They say that Truth is Beauty, and the AK is the ultimate truth on the battlefield.
It is beautiful.
Funny you say crude and clumsy. Back in US I can hit better with an AK 100yards than I can with my AR. Just the feeling I guess. I find they slip right in the shoulder and hands
I'd take a SA vz 58 or a SKS over an AK 47 anyday.
As far as I am concerned, an AK is only good to be thrown in a smelter and the metal used to make more VZ 58s and SKSs.
I'm sure this was meant as a joke, right?
Drag an good AKM into the 21st Century with a few aftermarket parts, (Krebs selector, Vltor Modstock, Ultimak rail/Aimpoint, and Circle 10 Mags) an that AKM will run most of the competition into the ground under adverse conditions. As well the AK platform has the ability to rigidly mount optics without the need to remove it's handguards for cleaning, and spare parts and mags worldwide. But yeah, into the smelter you go!
