Plus, carrying the weapon of your enemy, once they were dead, you could
"borrow" their ammo.....
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Jim Johnson <bmwwxman at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a ton of outfits today making superior quality AK-47 knock offs
> these days. IMHE the best of the older ones were Czech made. One of these
> little beauties saved my bacon a few times. The M16 jammed like crazy when
> I got in country. A nice Green Beret Lt. that met the 5 of us as we climbed
> off the C-130 took our 16s and threw them in the binjo ditch. We picked up
> captured Kalashnikovs from the base capture compound. I'll never forget how
> great that gun was for use in the rain, mud, water, dirt and dust. It was
> Czech made and I will always have a special spot in my heart for it.
>
> Cheers!!
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, derf <derf247 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Chinese metal is quality and metal parts are well made. The wood on
> > military rifles is utilitarian, at best, and never really high
> > quality.
> >
> > Chinese SKSs are better than others, like Yugoslavian. Yugoslavia has
> > no significant local source for chrome and did not chrome line the
> > barrels and things like the Chinese. A lot of military SKS (AK, too)
> > ammo is corrosive, some more than others.
> > The 7.62X39 round that SKS and AKs shoot is about equivalent to the
> > common 30-30.
> > For $99 in the early 90s you could get a new, Chinese SKS semi auto
> rifle.
> > Now you can sell them for around $350.
> > There were some Vietnam era red fiberglass stocks that are not pretty,
> > but resilient.
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> Jim
> Then there was the mind reader who moved to Washington, D.C. and couldn't
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