(09-16-2024, 04:15 PM)SomeJackleg Wrote: yeah it's kinda funny looking, and i think you maybe right about being a dragunov clone. there is a clone made for hunting that has traditional furniture / stock by a russian manufacturer. and supposedly this routh guy was in ukraine at the start of the war, so maybe he was able to bring one home with him, although i don't know how he could get it through customs, and wondering if you could find one on any of the arm list sites
one other thing im wondering i know they list 20 and 30 rd mags for the dragunov, but they seem to be scarce as hens teeth, and the one in the picture mag doesn't look to be big enough for the 7.62x54, .308 7.62x51, or the 9.3x64 that the tiger is chamber for.
, standard AK round, but still can't be absoultely positive about that.
wondering if it could be a ak 47 / 74 20" long barrel variant? i know Saiga maide / makes a sporter with out a pistol grip not sure if they made/ make one with a 20 " barrel
Over the years, there have been a lot of Dragunox clones sold here in the US, in particular a Romanian one and a Yugoslavian one that I can recall right off the top of my head.
When I lived in Greensboro, there was a small town just north of Greensboro called Summerfield,and there was a pawn shop there. In the late 1990's, I had a chance to buy an actual Russian Dragunov, made in Izevsk, new in box along with 5 magazines for it, a sling, and cleaning kit, for $750.00 as I recall. It would have been a steal, even then, but my point is, actual Russian Dragunovs do occasionally make it through customs, whether legally or not I couldn't say.
That one, if that's what it is, doesn't look like a real Dragunov - no muzzle device that I could see, for example, so it's probably some sort of clone.
fter enhancing the image a little bit and blowing it up, I think the magazine is 7.62x39 standard AK round, but still can't be absolutely sure about that. What I CAN say is that it doesn't look like any Dragunov magazine I've ever see, - not wide enough to accommodate a full-sized round..
Also, the "scope" looks to be some sort of red-dot rather than an actual rifle scope. I've got my doubts that the law enforcement claim that a 500 yard shot "would be no problem" with it, but the picture quality is still so poor that I can't be certain about that, either.
In your pictures, in the bottom one, the Dragunov on the left side, "standing up", is labeled "Tigr".
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