[JRandomFreeper]

Lots of those problems went away when they changed powder types to what Gene Stoner recommended. The Army hated Gen. LeMay's plastic rifle, and tried to undermine it.

It has done well over the years. I don't have to have eyes to be able to strip one and put it back together.

Not as well as the AK, but Kalashnikov was a special designer, in the catagory of John Moses Browning.

/johnny

[Repeat Offender]

The correct answer for 'what to do in a jam' is throw it down and grab a more reliable weapon like an AK47 from some dead haji.

Two jams requiring remedial action, within minutes of each other, while pinned down and cutoff in the street. Just as bad, CONSISTENTLY having to shoot the same s4!th3@ds several times. Damn I hate the POS M16 and 5.56 aka varmint ammo.

[Copenhagen Smile]

Mikhail Kalashnikov is still alive and kicking. The guy is 92, I think.

[ozzymandus]

Comparing Kalashnikov to John M. Browning is ridiculous. Kalashnikov didn’t invent anything. The soviets ripped off Hugo Schmeisser’s design of the MP43(Schmeisser was held prisoner in the same factory where Kalashnikov worked after the war) and gave the credit to a wrench monkey named Kalashnikov for propaganda purposes. Flame away, but it’s true, and you can’t change the truth.

[Lurker]

I’m going to disagree. Kalashnikov had a single moment of genius. Browning had a lifetime of it.