[43north]

“It is not terribly accurate, but lots of people have died from them.”

I recall reading an article in Soldier of Fortune magazine years ago about “rebels” in what was then Rhodesia and their use of the AK. The Rhodesian troops were always wondering why the rebels’ AK’s had a high rate of malfunctions during firefights and why they were so “inaccurate”.

Further investigation revealed that the rebels were using their AK’s as a makeshift stool resting the end of the magazine on the ground. That could not have been good for the reliability of the mag. When they examined captured AK’s they found that all of the rear sights were adjusted to the 900m setting. Seems some witch doctor had told these Einsteins that setting the sights like this would make the weapon more powerful.

No wonder Zimbabwe is in the shape its in.

[Monterrosa-24]

Mikail Kalashnikov was also a life member of the NRA. That’s the American NRA. Hince he was one of our comrades-in-arms. He was a good one to have on our Freeper side.

[donmeaker]

The AK magazine is steel, not the aluminium common to US m-16 series rifles.

Soldiers do pushups on their rifle, with the magazine ‘monopod’ing on the ground.

[C19fan]

When they examined captured AK’s they found that all of the rear sights were adjusted to the 900m setting. Seems some witch doctor had told these Einsteins that setting the sights like this would make the weapon more powerful.

Victor Davis Hanson in the chapter on Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift in "Culture and Carnage" mentions the Zulu warriors did the same exact thing with captured British Martini-Henry rifles. 100 years difference and the natives never learned.