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To: arthurus

Rifle in the rubble is an AK variant, usually called a Saiga, note the stamped metal receiver and the standard AK magazine. The Saiga is a civilianized AK, they cover up the gas tube above the barrel that most AK’s leave exposed. The rifles pictured on left are SKS’s, they do fire the same 7.62 x 39 round as most AK’s. SKS’s, unless modified, have a fixed magazine.


9 posted on 07/11/2016 10:43:10 AM PDT by E.Allen
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To: E.Allen

I read somewhere on an earlier thread that it was indeed an AK variant (Russian Saiga) chambered for the 5.45x39 (AK-74 cartridge).


15 posted on 07/11/2016 10:51:07 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: E.Allen

My SKS was modified to take 30-rnd mags - and looked just like the one in the photo after the cops killed him.......didn’t like the gun and got rid of it......


47 posted on 07/11/2016 12:18:14 PM PDT by Arlis
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