Kalashnikov Himself Says AK Works With Sand

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Most of the world thats poor uses AK's because they are simple and cheap, mostly cheap. When it comes down to it its money. I don't know what an export M16 goes for
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Lately it goes for free, paid by US tax payers as "helping the allies", just like the AK. :D

This is also why every country we fight has mostly old Russian junk as equipment, they simply can't afford better.
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The Russians are making cheap firearms, but they aren't playing cheap on the parts that are the most vital for the function and reliability. Since WW2, starting with the PPsh, every Russian combat rifle and machine gun had chrome lined barrel and chamber. Lately they use only hammer forged barrels. That's not cheap in my book.
Their military firearms are not junk. Their general purpose machine gun is still more reliable and much lighter than ours, so is their fifty cal. They make a lot of junk, but their combat firearms are not junk.
 
Don't worry about that video from RockyMtnTactical The Pretender. They gave all favor to the AR in it and purposely left the AK they tested exposed.

Fair testing would have been an open AR and an open AK. Instead they closed the AR and left the AK open. Advantage AR.

Let's see them do the same test but this time throw dirt into each of them. One handful into each receiver.
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Fella, it was the exact same test for both guns. The AK failed because of it's weakness or flaw or whatever you want to call it in the design. If the AR15 had a huge gaping hole in the side of it under those same test conditions it would have failed just as hard.

Like I have stated, the test is completely unrealistic. All it does is shatter the dreams of wannabe internet commandos who pretend that the AK is too good to ever fail because Kalashnikov himself said that it wouldn't under those conditions.
 
I don't think Kalashnikov said you could bury it under sand and it would still work. What he said was you could take a handful of sand and through it in to the receiver and it would still work. (not bury it) And yes no rifle is infallible and all have their flaws. This thread reminded me of a weaponology episode about the spatznaz. Check it out, there are other parts but watch the first few minutes and they address the myth about the ak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7H0Pj-LhVE&feature=related

hope you enjoy the clip.
 
Gotta love the line from the former Spetnaz regarding the AK as he says with a smile, " it isn't a prom queen more like a biker chick". A wonderfully simple and elegant statement that sums it up perfectly much like the AK.
 
So what. Why do you need a gun that shoots after being covered in sand? Do you plan on burying your guns at the beach?
 
So what. Why do you need a gun that shoots after being covered in sand? Do you plan on burying your guns at the beach?
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There is more to shooting than sunny summer days and a bench...

BSW

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AK vs AR - Who cares?
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More than likely this would be the guy who has spent two or three times the amount of the other guy for greatly diminishing or no returns.:)

I think it's great because I don't have a horse in this race. Don't really get excited about shooting either of them as I believe there are better choices.

Then again, I am probably one of those diminishing returns guys too..lol
 
I have plenty of time shooting the M-16; and not too long ago that I retired from the military. I've also had quite a bit of time shooting AK's and variants. Including a couple of true military AK-47 select fire full auto. Both weapons have their pros and cons. Both weapons; especially for the civilian who will not be in the same environment as our service men and women; are a good choice. I think very highly of the M-16/AR-15. But I have to give the dependability and reliability to the AK. AR/M16 definitely has better accuracy and quality. But when it comes to: "If I came across one of each; an AK and AR; in the middle of a swamp; and the bad guys were within shooting range; and only had enough time to grab 1 of the 2 rifles and open fire; which of the 2 would I grab??? Well, from personal experience, I would grab the AK-47. I wouldn't even think about it. Now remember; even for the paranoid, zombie believing, DieHard movies are real life, gun owners out there; they aren't going to have the same environmental impacts to deal with concerning their rifles that the military does. As such; they can probably keep either rifle they choose, operating with complete confidence and reliability.
 
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