>>>Yuri said our chatter had frightened off any game but he let me fire a few potshots with his formidable but fluffily-named hunting rifle, a Kalashnikov “Tigger”.
As the sun set we’d dined on a great caldron of peppery soup made with pike caught in one of the nearby lakes. They’d produced a slab of what Russians call “salo”, smoked pork fat which you eat raw, washed down with shots of vodka<<<
Tiger is not a Kalashnikov but a civilian version of Dragunov, re-barreled for better MOA with non-milspec civilian ammo. Salo is not smoked in Russia and Ukraine.
And author is an idiot too.