I’m prior service and now collect old mil surplus rifles. here is what I have. tell me what you think? and what do you like/have?
1 bul AK-47
4 SKS 3rus, 1 yugo
1 mini-14 (chambered 7.62×39)
2 mosin nagant M-44
2 mosin nagant 91/30
1 mossberg 500
1 colt 357
1 sig P230
plenty of ammo, gun show this week end looking for a new toy!
I like the FN FAL…..but the $$$$$ and ammo$$$$$
I’m making a game and I need three ideas for weapons that might be cool to add to the game. I have already used: M40 Sniper, AK-47, FAMAS, Shotgun, RPG, M16, M9 Pistol, and m249 saw.
I am writing a book and I want to find a list of the best sniper and assault combat rifles. Can anyone help me out?
I know of the Ak-47, but I’ve never heard of the 196 modle. Or is it an I96?
Also, something modern. Either that or give me a site where I can see how to make a good military grade combat rifle. Sniper and assault rifle. Also, handguns as well. I’m doing alot of research on gun models and how to’s and things like that. And yes, the Ak-47 is a great gun, but I don’t know just how modern it is. I need something more modern if possible.
approximately how many military conflicts have there been where the AK-47 and it’s variants were used?
The m 16, ar 15, ak 74, ak 47 and the Famas are all .223 cal. I want a higher caliber assault rifle but I also want to know why most modern military rifles are such a low cal. I know that the rifles are all the same size so NATO can use the same ammo for the different countries guns, but are they small bullets to make them better at piercing body armour ? any suggestions on what assault rifle to get for my self? (other that the ar 10)
Which makes a louder report up close and at a distance? An M4/M16/M249 in 5.56X45 or an AK-47 in 7.62X39?
Assuming the 5.56×45 has a higher chamber pressure and muzzle velocity than the 7.62X39?
Which makes a louder report up close and at a distance? An M4/M16/M249 in 5.56X45 or an AK-47 in 7.62X39?
Assuming the 5.56×45 has a higher chamber pressure and muzzle velocity than the 7.62X39?
Which makes a louder report up close and at a distance? A military M4/M16/M249 in 5.56X45 or an AK-47 in 7.62X39?
Assuming the 5.56×45 has a higher chamber pressure and muzzle velocity than the 7.62X39?
(BTW, please tell Yahoo that there are as many if not more SHOOTERS out there than HUNTERS! Where’s the SHOOTING section?)
Here’s a partial list of my collection:
1888 German Commission Rifle
1893 Spanish Oviedo Mauser (via Mexico)
1891 Mosin Nagant
91/30 Mosin Nagant
1938 Mosin Nagant
1944 Mosin Nagant
SKS Yugo
MAK-90 Chinese AK-47 semi
M96 Sweedish Mauser
K31 Swiss Carbine
M95 Austrian Manlicher Carbine
M38 Carcano Carbine
MAS-36 French Carbine
No.1 Mk III British Enfield SMLE
No. 4 Enfield
M48 Yugo Mauser
1893 Turk Mauser
1903 Turk Mauser
1938 Turk Mauser
1938 Turk Short Rifle
K98k German Mauser
24/47 Yugo Mauser
99 Japanese Arisaka
M1 Garand
1903 Springfield
Browning Hi-Power 9mm
Bulgarian Makarov 9
There’s a few more I can’t think of now. My favorites? The Swede, The Swiss K31 and the most accurate…..The Turkish M38 of all things!
I also love the SKS….ugly, rugged, easy to shoot and clean. I would recommend one to everyone.
in your opinion, which would the american military have more luck with?
M4 – the standard issue as of now. usually a fine gun in forest conditions but prone to frequent jamming in the sandy desert
AK-47 – every terrorist’s favorite. i have seen people in afghanistan dig up a couple from over ten years ago, pour a little motor-oil on it and put 500 rounds though it without a problem. somewhat bulky though but parts are dirt cheap, plentiful, and easy to repair.
please state which you think and why.
i say the AK-47 because, first off, its idiot proof. all of the mechanisms are made out of stamped metal, the barrel is chromium lined and there is just a level for a fire selector. also, it fires the heavy 7.62 cartridge, which is capable of punching through the ceramic armor plating on an average infantry man, plus the wall behind him. and the cartridge itself is much more compatible with self-disintigrating rounds, HE, and tungsten core armor piercing. And the ammunition is more widley available on the modern battlefield if the soldiers were to be cut-off from supplies
i do agree with all of you saying that the M4 is more accurate. its just that to get that accuracy, you have to trade off ease of maintainence. it requires many specialised tool, brushes and picks whilst the AK-47 only needs at most a paint brush and a bootlace
I know that an explosion is used to fire a bullet. How is a bullet shell expelled? Can you please give me a picture of the inner layout of AK-47 or M4-Carbine?
Is it still the AK-47 or has it been replaced?
If you had to choose between an AK-47, M4, or M16 assault rifle in a combat situation, when your enemy was anywhere between 20 and 150 yards away from you, which would you choose? Please enumerate your reasons, and please let your explanation contain more than the phrase that “such and such rifle sucks or is awesome”. Thank you.
I live in SD and i was wondering if it was illegal to own and operate a fully automatic assault rifle
The reason im asking is because i was interested in buying a fully automatic Ak-47, not for shooting people, but for recreational purposes
I’m interested in the military style BB guns, like the M4 Carbine and AK-47. So if you know of any good brands that you would recommend, let me know.
Thank you!
In individual performance what modern assault rifle is the best overall based only on such things as accuracy, magazine size, weight, and length.
P.S. and don’t include the AK-47 just because it is easy to use and make.
If you could take only one to a war with every imaginable environment, and cost was no issue.
For example AK-47(Kalashnikov) is a very good assault rifle.I want to invent of a better rifle.This rifle must use magnum bullets,e.g. .338 Lapua Magnum.And this rifle must be full automatic.
Is the M4/M16 louder than the AK-47 due to the higher gas pressure and because of the higher pitched sharper crack vs the lower pitch not as sharp crack of the AK-47? I was told that the 5.56X45 is slightly louder than the 7.62X39 but not by much. But other people tell me the AK is louder so dunno.
How much louder is the 7.62X51/.308 over the 5.56/.223/7.62X39? Is it by a lot or just by a little bit?
I heard the MK-19 is not that loud. But can it still damage your hearing or no?
How loud is the AT-4, the javelin and the RPG-7?
Which is louder, the 5.56X45 or 7.62X39?
Many people say the 5.56 is louder then the 7.62X39 dude to the much higher gas pressure(62,000 psi for 5.56 vs only 45,000 psi for 7.62×39) and that the bullet is almost 1000 ft per second faster. Is this true? I get mixed answers, some say the 5.56 is louder, others say the 7.62X39 is louder.
I know the 5.56 has a sharper sound while the 7.62X39 has more of a duller sound.
Also how does the 5.56X45 and 7.62X39 compare to the 7.62X51 NATO/.308 which has more powder?
Anyone who owns or fired both an AR-15/M4/M16 and an AK-47/SKS could help me?
Are these two terms interchangable?
It seems as if many people, for some reason, refer to the AK-47 as an ‘assault rifle’- but it is also a machine gun (when on fully automatic).
Do assault rifle and machine gun have the same meaning?
What are the factual decibel or dB levels are for both the M4/M249/M16 in 5.56X45(.223) and the AK-47 in 7.62X39?
Other than a different pitch or tone, is there any loudness differences between the two weapons? Or are both weapons equally loud, just different pitch to them.
Does anyone own both weapons or fires them could tell me. Thanks.
Say if I was to buy an AK-47 with a 30 round magazine if I was originally stationed in Georgia where it’s legal to own one, would I have to relinquish it if I was transferred to California?
Im just curious. where can i buy some real military firearms for recreation??? I talking about the M24, PSG1, heckler and koch weapons, AK 47, M16, any gun from anyplace in the world.
I have seen many definitions.
One is that it is a weapon that can switch between semi-automatic and fully automatic fire. But, a Thompson sub-machine gun can also do this and it is not an assault rifle it is a submachinegun. Another definition is that it fires an intermediate round, something between a rifle round and a pistol round. An AR-15 fires an intermediate round and it is just a semiautomatic rifle that looks "mean"….I don’t consider it an assault rifle, it is just a semi-automatic rifle to me.
The phrase seems bogus to me. It seems that whenever someone wants to make a gun look "bad" they call it "assault rifle". "Assault" also means "attack" so it also seems like the definition depends on what you are using it for. You could assault someone with any rifle…does that mean a bolt action .22 cricket is an assault rifle too?
I feel that if there is no definite defintion that everyone honors and that we should just make up a new term and scrap "assault rifle".
I pretty much have a good idea of what they are, the definition dosn’t seem to be rock hard to me though. A lot of people seem to like to distort it into being something it isn’t. I tihnk we should make a new term and first thing make an accurate definition. Assault Rifle was supposedly coined by Hitler and was not really defined at the time of it’s making thus allowing for all manner of interpretations. I know several people who thing my SKS is an assult rifle just because because it has a bayonet, a grenade launcher and looks kind-of-ish-like an AK-47.
I just think Assault Rifle has been too over used, over defined and has just become a bad phrase.
Now select fire can’t be right because the MP43/44 is only semi-auto and full-auto. There is no burst fire mode. If we make it have 3 fire modes the original assault rifle will no longer be an assault rifle. If we count 2 fire modes things like Thompson’s will be assault rifles and they are not rifles. I find that every option contradicts itself in some way….this is a very complex problem, we are trying to undo 60 years of error.