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08-12-2012 08:45 AM |
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Originally Posted by CWMV
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Ive actually got a bet going with the wife on this. I havent cleaned/maintained any of my AK's for the last 2 years, and I bet I can go 5 without having issues. She thinks 3 years.
Obviously not the right thing to do, but hey even after 2, no maint, and thousands of rounds of com-bloc surplus they still run like champs! All Romainian too, except for the Saiga conversions.
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even corrosive ammo? :shock:
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For certain accurate, but the round is frankly obsolete. .308 can be loaded to duplicate and exceed 30-06 performance and its starting to dry up in a bad way. There is a lot to be said for arming yourself with a current caliber.
My biggest complaint about the garand isn't the weight, Ive been a 240 gunner and a mortarman so this rifle isn't going to drag me down! Its the shape. I mean its just...awkward! To me anyway. I mean I seriously just can not get into a comfortable position with the garand.
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The Garand is best used with sling techniques. Web or leather slings as you probably know can be used to do the steady shooting with no support other than your own body. How you mean you can't get comfortable with it? If anything I find it very comfortable, from the iron sights to the feel. It might be a matter of different experiences, I personally never felt too comfortable/confident with M-16/Car15, go figure!
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And whats this about M.N. crap! I happen to love the platform, for the same reason i appreciate all Russian guns-simplicity and form that follows function.
My 1915 Peter the Great M.N. will shoot just as well as any of my mausers, and after a thorough cleaning (I'm talking DAYS to get the near 100 years of gunk out) the bolt is very smooth.
Only thing that really gets me on the M.N. is feeding it. You go to push the rounds into the mag and before you bottom out there is this ledge on the side of the receiver that can tear your thumb nail off!
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Well IMHO they've been built and assembled by blind drunken monkeys.. they quality and finish is never up to the standards of other similar rifles, the safety is a joke, the feeding is a pain, the bolt design is terrible and not particularly safe.. Perfect rifle for a mass war, cos it's cheap as chips and easy to produce and it (mostly) spits bullets out of the right end, but no, they're nowhere near the quality of a K98 or a Springfield.
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Ive never had the opportunity to shoot an Enfield, but it is quite a fetching platform. If I could ever find a reasonably priced Ishapore Enfield in my area Id be on it like a fat kid on cake.
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They're weird guns those Enfields: on paper they should be crap (stock that is bolted to the rest of the rifle, barrel completely covered by wood), but they're quite good, and the bolt action is surely a peculiar one, a bit delicate if you ask me, but very fast and smooth. Worth the experience :-)
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Well your comparing apples to automobiles here. Neither the PSL or the Drag are sniper rifles by western standards, they are more akin to a designated marksmans rifle, more comparable to a scoped GI M-14. Performance wise they are pretty similar.
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well the Dragunov was designed as a marksman gun actually.
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I see that your from Canada. That sucks (as far as guns go). Even in California we can own Ar/AK platform rifles.
You know what surprises me though is the seemingly common nature of the SVT-40 up there. Here they are like Hens teeth, and can cost thousands of dollars. Ive spoken to Canadians who bought their 5-round magazine SVT's for $400. Id do terrible things to own an SVT.:cool:
EDIT: And if your going to talk actual sniper rifles, dont forget Savage! They consistently win competitions here with out of the box stock rifles, going against custom Rem/Tikka variants.
EDIT 2: Misread-jaws is out of Canada-my mistake!
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hehehe yeah I'm Italian but living in the UK, it's a real nightmare here, and not because of what you can't have, it's the mentality that is just absurd.. but anyway I go back to Italy often enough to shoot regularly. |
