Never understood the charm of these things. Commie guns (especially the pistols) are bad karma.
Granted, neck hair is easier to clean off the muzzle than cosmoline.
Spend the extra cash and buy a K98 Mauser.....Nice German engineering.
Don't know why, but I'm addicted to commie weapons.
Especially AKs.
The movie Enemy at The Gate plus they are cheap! I have a few of them but they lost some of the Romanticism after I talked to an old Russian man that moved here he fought in WWII. He told me of course Russian snipers posed with a gun from the Mother Country of course they claimed to make their kills with that gun but that it was pure propaganda 8mm Mauser and any kind of American gun they could scrape up, most of the top snipers used those.
Now he may have not have been telling the truth but why would he lie he was there and probably would know!