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Dog, folks; I think you might find this page quite interesting: http://guns.connect.fi/gow/2030.html

http://www.bsg-dornier.de/schiessen/filme/hsp/kalashnikov.mpg http://www.kurzzeit.com/

Oh yes: http://www.beemans.net/Lewis%20&%20Clark%20Airgun.htm

If you asked what is the most common high powered rifle cartridge in the world, I'd put my money on .308 / 7,62 NATO.

Steyr Scout Rifles, some Benelli Novas. Compound bows for hunting and fishing.

http://alpinetek.netfirms.com/guns/SL8/

There's plenty of optics made just for Saiga and other AK clones www.posp.ru

Bayonets were considered mostly as decorative items already back then. They were used in parades but the experience had shown that they had hardly any practical use in the battlefield. The light infantry had to move fast through rough terrains and sooner or later the infantrymen dumped all dead...

http://www.interordnance.com/mn/ I found this interesting article about M-39 “sniper†conversions made by Interordnance. The pictures say it better than words what kind of job is to mount a standard AK/Dragunov siderail optics on M-N action. I presume that the rifle you’ve been...

Installing an AK or Dragunov type mounting rail on Mosin-Nagant type receiver is a challenging but not impossible. If you bolt the rail directly on receiver the mounting will be so high that shooting is practically impossible. The rail should be about one-two inches under the barrel line to have...

Why the case looks like it was cut with a jigsaw? Why they don’t show us the primer of that splintered case? The overpressure marks should be clear and visible. Why the bolt looks intact? (No picture of the bolt head) By the laws of physics the bolt should have flown through shooters head...

I heard about this place from friends at rifle range. As I was planning to mount a military type scope on the side rail of my saiga rifle, I ordered the POSP 8x42 VD. The delivery took about one and a half week. The scope itself is heavy, rugged piece of optical engineering, feels like you...

There’s no much secret about this rifle. It has original Mosin-Nagant hexagonal shaped receiver from pre-Soviet era. The rifle is built around a strong aluminum action bedding block in which all other components – the receiver, barrel, stock and scope rail - are attached. One of the weak...

Just came back from shooting range. This was my favourite type of a day: Plenty of ammo and all kind of interesting weapons free of charge. And the cherry on the top of icing: I didn’t need to clean them up myself!:D I’m a volunteer weapon instructor in a reservist-training organisation...

I’m not a handloading expert but I’ve been told that 7,62x54R is slightly more accurate than .308. The shape of this “obsolete†case enables the gunpowder to combust in a bit more optimal conditions. It is true that rimmed case can cause feeding problems and that it does not work in...