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Just to add one more vote: when I did my army service, we got to test shoot the Swedish AK-4 and AK-5, the American M-16 and the Russian AK-47. They felt different, they handled differently and they absolutely sounded very different.

I guess it depends on how you test it. If you familiar with loadouts in the field, you can certainly make an educated guess based on rate of fire and how loud it sounds. But in lab "blind" test I'll be betting that most of us can't(especially if its single shots only) Edited by Mor
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I think guns need to catch up with the '70s sci-fi look of body armour.

 

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I really enjoyed that video.

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It's been my observation over a long time that some of the nicest people in the World 'manage' or are interested in violent shooty death. Whereas a great many bloody awful people are ostensibly 'carers'.

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America. Nuff said.  :grin:  :wowey:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCppmoZiXUY

One of the few upsides of a conscript army, is that every now and then we get to have some "fun" in the courses and get this out of our system. Which is amazing, because just the thought of owning a gun makes my head spin from all the cost red tape and certifications :wowey:

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On balance if I needed to get guns into play the smartest solution I can think of would be a trip to visit Guard Dog, and a budget for steaks and ale.

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America. Nuff said.  :grin:  :wowey:

 

 

Goddamn, i wanna go there! :D

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A funny story about the MG-3 from someone I spoke to who served as a Leopard 2 commander and Kompanie executive officer in the last days of the Cold War to the mid-90s: As many of them were simply Second World War vintage MG-42s re-chambered for NATO 7.62mm, it wasn't totally unheard of that one would find a Nazi eagle emblem still engraved on the internal parts whilst cleaning one.

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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

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A funny story about the MG-3 from someone I spoke to who served as a Leopard 2 commander and Kompanie executive officer in the last days of the Cold War to the mid-90s: As many of them were simply Second World War vintage MG-42s re-chambered for NATO 7.62mm, it wasn't totally unheard of that one would find a Nazi eagle emblem still engraved on the internal parts whilst cleaning one.

 

Pfft. That's also true of toasters.

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A funny story about the MG-3 from someone I spoke to who served as a Leopard 2 commander and Kompanie executive officer in the last days of the Cold War to the mid-90s: As many of them were simply Second World War vintage MG-42s re-chambered for NATO 7.62mm, it wasn't totally unheard of that one would find a Nazi eagle emblem still engraved on the internal parts whilst cleaning one.

A few years ago there was this ''huge scandal'' about the German parade corps still using K98's with swastikas and eagles on them. Good thing they removed them, what seemed like mere little imprints from a time long gone turned out to be malevolent magical runes that could actually resurrect zombie-Hitler when used in a special ritual. 

 

Anyway, here is a pic of a L2A1 because its so cool I'd trade whats left of my soul to own one. 

 

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http://pimpmygun.doctornoob.com/

 

Made my version of the perfect modernized AK. With a Trijicon TR21 and a docter on top of it, heavy, 14'' barrel, adjustable cheek piece, ris rail handguard, flashlight, AG44 Grip.  If could only rely on one weapon for the rest of my life this AK configuration would be it. 

 

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Why have you got rails on the end if you aren't going to do any further adaptations? :disguise:

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Why have you got rails on the end if you aren't going to do any further adaptations? :disguise:

 

Better have them and not need them than need them and not have them. Thats a one piece hand guard with rails on top and on bottom.  Besides, I used it to mount a flashlight. 

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It's a bit of a secret but Wals and I served together in the army.

 

He we are on our support weapons course.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPcfp5ppGnk

 

Before you ask, I'm the fat one.

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