After seeing this...



I consider Picasso the soldier's painter. I love the flower growing from the dead soldiers hand.

Kipling is great, I love, "Gods of the Copybook Heading". It is a great poem and so fitting to this time period.



Yup, it is a Bulgarian AK. I don't buy crappy rifles, except one, but that was long time ago.




No, I know it wasn't, I see it all the time. I see soldiers during each introduction to the new instructor telling them that they wanted to do 11Bravo, but decided on this job because it shipped faster/slower/whatever. I actually signed up 11X-Ray and they took it from me due to a broken foot. I don't even bring it up, unless the NCOs ask why I joined and picked 92Whiskey. Otherwise, I feel like I'm trying to one up the others.

What I noticed is that these guys are the first ones to talk about rifles and how this is high speed and that isn't. I've noticed that the 92Foxtrot E-6s talk about weapons a heck of a lot more than the ex-Infantry, ex-13Bravo and ex-EOD do. So I fully got you on that aspect.

I kinda do have to admit it sucks saying, "I signed up 11Bravo and broke my foot, so they sent me to meet Pauly Shore."

When accuracy matters the AK can put a round within meters of your target.

I would not knock the modern Russian ak. 5.45 ak's have been known to shoot well under 2 1/2 inch groups. Personally my civie tastic saiga .223 with crap steel cased ammo........3 inch or under all day long. With good US made stuff cold barrel.......under 1 1/2 inch groups (all 100 yards). When it warms up after 10 shots or so turns into a bit over 2 inch groups.

Never confuse rifles from who knows where manufactured from rejected parts or rebuild from old parts............or even had their temper of their steel destroyed by retards and blow torches with the real deal ak.

Nothing more than I love to do is hit the range, set next to tacticool guy with 3000 rifles and optics and out shoot them with a simple inexpensive rifle. Ok, granted if I where using there rifle I would out shoot this one........BUT I know how to use a freaken weapon.

Yup, I'd put my AK-74 up against a M16A4 or even and M4 and would compete with accuracy.




My brother went to a long range shooting class as a guest of a gun smith, because the gunsmith wanted giggle when my brother took his RPK and hit at 600 meters with iron sites. All the tacticool guys were calling shens till he started shooting. Wish I could shoot as well as my brother, but 400 meters is about my max with iron sites.

The 74 and RPK are very good and anyone who says they aren't accurate hasn't shot them.