(04-14-2025, 11:05 AM)sailorsam Wrote: interresting info, thanks
I wonder how many AK47s are still floating around
saw a pic early in the war of some Uke partisans with Mosin-Nagants!
Something like 34 million of them were made just by Russia and by countries under license to Russia, which is not even counting the clones made in the US in recent years, so there are still a goodly number of them floating around. They are damned near indestructible, so even old ones from 70 years ago are still ticking away in war zones world-wide.
At one time, Africa was so flooded with AK-47's and AKMs that you could purchase one for a sack of corn, or about $6.00.
My son still uses a Mosin-Nagant, WWII vintage, to deer hunt with, and swears by it. I wouldn't want to get into a fire-fight with him and that rifle no matter what I was carrying. Hits count more than any amount of full-auto noise, and one thing he can do with that rifle is hit what he wants to hit! It will reach out, reach out and TOUCH a target, meaning his arms are longer than anyone carrying an AR-15's arms. They can make a lot of noise and fury, but that doesn't matter so much if they can't get close enough to make it count without getting themselves perforated by a dinosaur.
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