And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It's Russian; it'll probably still fire. Say what you will about Russian equipment, (and I've said plenty of nasty things about it over the years), but it was made to be issued to the illiterate peasants who constituted about 80% of the Soviet population. As such, most of their weapons are extremely durable, if often quite unrefined in construction. I've seen AKs in such bad condition that they logically shouldn't even be in one piece but that would fire reliably.
I remember an article long ago about how the Russian gangsters were hitting the old battlefields where they dug up the ancient sidearms and MG of the dead and all of them, German and Russian, were repairable and deadly to those downrange.
It's Russian; it'll probably still fire. Say what you will about Russian equipment, (and I've said plenty of nasty things about it over the years), but it was made to be issued to the illiterate peasants who constituted about 80% of the Soviet population. As such, most of their weapons are extremely durable, if often quite unrefined in construction. I've seen AKs in such bad condition that they logically shouldn't even be in one piece but that would fire reliably.
ReplyDeleteThis guy could probably save it:
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And this lady would shoot it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPH7m_3sZNw
And yes, Russian firearms are designed to be maintained in the field by armorers with a scrap of pig iron and a bastard file.
Of course it's repairable:
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There is a series about restoring a ditch find 1911 that is great -
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Is it caked in mud, or is the rust so bad it's growing and flaking off of it? Bad either way.
ReplyDeleteI remember an article long ago about how the Russian gangsters were hitting the old battlefields where they dug up the ancient sidearms and MG of the dead and all of them, German and Russian, were repairable and deadly to those downrange.
ReplyDeleteIt´s a TT 1933, a Browning clone
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