Posted on 08/19/2019 4:51:00 PM PDT by PROCON
“AK’s are kind of like a cheeseburger. However you want it, you can have it.” Those are Jared LaMarche’s thoughts on the Kalashnikov, or AK, rifle. LaMarche is a gunsmith at Windsor Arms in Windsor, Vermont. They bring a bunch of their AKs and other guns to the Green Mountain Boys Machine Gun Shoot in Eden, Vermont. The event takes place mid-July of every year.
LaMarche is a big fan of AKs. “A lot of people think that the AK is not a fun, or a great gun. I think it’s awesome,” he told Guns.com at last year’s shoot. He went on to explain that the AK platform was made for a conscript army. “Which is when you take a potato farmer, you take him out of the field and you give him a rifle, and now he’s a soldier.”
LaMarche demonstrated a few full auto AKs, ARs, a VEPR-12 full auto shotgun along with a few other interesting and rare guns at the Vermont shoot. He believes that once you shoot a good quality AK, with good quality ammo, you too will be a big believer in the AK platform.
What do you think? Do you prefer AK or AR?
Here are a few AKs that I’ve had the pleasure of photographing over the last few years.
An AK-47 with a chopped down barrel. (Photo: Ben Philippi / Guns.com)
A super shorty AK-47. (Photo: Ben Philippi / Guns.com)
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Just steer clear of the Cahulawassee.
Molot makes the finest.
Will do.
Here is a great video honoring the rifle and its designer.
It’s 9 minutes long, but there is a great part where he field strips the rifle with gloves on in the snow. Do that with an AR15.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IndgJBheS5s
If you have owned, or do own an AK you will like this video.
If you have never owned an AK, you will see why we like them so much.
If, God forbid, I had to arm all my neighbors in an emergency and I could chose between giving them an AK47 or an AR15, it would be the AK. If it works near flawlessly for a drunken illiterate conscript, well.....
The rear site on the AK gif is spring-loaded and in the down position it appears to me.
good man...
But in war the Finns most often used it as a sniper weapon.
A Ma Duece will shoot people on the other side of a stone wall.
One of these will kill a target on the other side of a bus engine block.
The AR is one of the easiest guns to field strip until you get to the bolt. I can’t remember how to take it apart as it has been a long time.
When I did have one it wasn’t difficult just can’t remember.
Before the nice folks at ArmaLite developed the AR15, they invented the AR10. It ain't a .22, and ArmaLite would still be happy to sell you one!
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The AR bolt assembly is a bear to clean, IMHO.
"The voice of reason"...
;^)
Perhaps true, but the Izhevsk AK’s and the Molots are embargoed to import.
CC
You might want to rethink your position. Neither the AK or AR are caliber specific weapons. Though the typical round for the AR is 5.56x45 they also make ARs in calibers from the 22 LR to 50 Beowulf. They also have made AR shotguns. Aks are typically 7.62x39 or 5.45x39 but I have also seen them set up for different calibers.
The AK can typically take more abuse and dirt, but the AR is much easier to repair. The tools to repair the AK are not that common and require some knowledge, but you can completely disassemble an AR down the last spring with less than $100 worth of tools.
Like the article stated, the AK was designed to give weapons to peasants with little training and less desire to keep their weapons clean. There are many good things and bad things to say about each type of weapon (because all designs are compromises). Most of the people I know that own one also own the other and like both.
An AR in 7.62x39 is the best of both worlds.
Yep, you are right on that. What's my favorite rifle? The one I am shooting that day.
Seriously, if I had to suddenly give a rifle to a bunch of gun virgins in an civil emergency, I would give them an AK. The first time I field stripped an AK, I thought, well now this is kinda cool.
The easiest gun to detail strip is the 1911. Field stripping can be a little irritating getting the barrel link to line up when putting it back together.
Detail stripping can be done with no tools. If I remember right you do need the base of the mags to do something.
I try to be a reasonable man. When those Romanian WASRs were dirt cheap at $350 or so a copy two of them found there way into the Clan Lurker armory. A couple of drop in Tapco triggers and they’re fine weapons.
Those and the Mosin Nagant rifles acquired similarly will be handed out to brethren who find themselves without tools after The Fall.
It is a manly duty.
Best,
L
I would double tap them girls...
LOL!
Yep, you are right on that. What's my favorite rifle? The one I am shooting that day.
Funny, I was just wondering: "If I had to own just one rifle, would it be an AK, or an AR?"
Then, the obvious answer came to me: neither one.
"FN FAL - The Free World's Right Arm"
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