AK47 documentary... - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Hatterasguy · #1 06-28-2009, 04:28 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na2_Nw31BBI&feature=fvst

They talk about the gun runner that Lord Of War was based on.

Skippy · #2 06-28-2009, 04:53 PM

Not the best documentary I've seen, but it still makes me want to take my AK out shooting. Maybe later today, maybe tomorrow.

BTW, I qualified on the M240B last week. Good times

Hatterasguy · #3 06-28-2009, 05:50 PM

I want to buy one even more now, my favorite gun ever.

cmac2012 · #4 06-28-2009, 06:12 PM

I'm torn. On the one hand, I have to think "awesome invention" and I'd definitely want one were I under attack.

OTOH, I have to think "holy $h!t." Hordes of child soldiers. That's what the world needs more of, all right.

Hatterasguy · #5 06-28-2009, 10:30 PM

If not the AK they would be using something else. Its just the cheapest tool their "leaders" can supply them with.

OMEGAMAN · #6 06-29-2009, 01:12 AM

dont blame the SUV blame the wheel.

Skippy · #7 06-29-2009, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by OMEGAMAN

dont blame the SUV blame the nut behind the wheel.

There, fixed it for you

Ara T. · #8 06-29-2009, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

If not the AK they would be using something else. Its just the cheapest tool their "leaders" can supply them with.

Often times machetes do the job for a lot less money.

diametricalbenz · #9 06-29-2009, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Ara T.

Often times machetes do the job for a lot less money.

And they promote more upper body exercise rather than just your index finger when being ordered to murder

dynalow · #10 06-29-2009, 11:02 AM

My G/F had to learn how to assemble/disassemble an AK-47 in school. In Russia. In the late 70's.
She said she got pretty good at it too!

Of course, they never had to learn to shoot the weapon. ( Or so she says.

)

Fulcrum525 · #11 06-29-2009, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by dynalow

Of course, they never had to learn to shoot the weapon. ( Or so she says.

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Easy, just point and click

Hatterasguy · #12 06-29-2009, 01:17 PM

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Of course, they never had to learn to shoot the weapon. ( Or so she says.

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Nothing to learn, point the pointy end at the capitalist pig and pull the trigger.

The AK ain't exactly a precesion rifle, spray and pray.

dynalow · #13 06-29-2009, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Nothing to learn, point the pointy end at the capitalist pig and pull the trigger.

The AK ain't exactly a precesion rifle, spray and pray.

At what range does the accuracy start tailing off in the hands of the average shooter?

At what range does the accuracy start tailing off in the hands of the average 10 yr.old African shooter?

Does that weapon have much of a recoil?

cmac2012 · #14 06-29-2009, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Ara T.

Often times machetes do the job for a lot less money.

True, and yes they would use some other weapon absent AK47s. But the AKs will make a 110 lb boy into a lethal weapon way quicker than a machete can.

Skippy · #15 06-29-2009, 05:40 PM

The accuracy varies with the manufacturer of the particular AK and the quality of the ammo. Mine is a cheapo Romanian one and I'd have a pretty high confidence of hitting a man-sized target out to about 150 yards using Wolf or other Russian FMJ ammo. I'm good for about twice that distance with an M-16. Recoil is subjectively about double that of an M-16, still easily tolerated by almost any adult and apparently many children.