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Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:54 am**

snayperskaya wrote:
saddler wrote:At least the Israeli's had the sense to add a bottle opener to their interpretation of the design.
The lip on a steel AK mag makes an excellent bottle opener.......

An interesting article

http://weaponsman.com/?p=12534

Bent feed lips was WHY the Israeli's added the bottle opener!

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:58 am**

saddler wrote:
snayperskaya wrote:
saddler wrote:At least the Israeli's had the sense to add a bottle opener to their interpretation of the design.
The lip on a steel AK mag makes an excellent bottle opener.......

An interesting article

http://weaponsman.com/?p=12534
Bent feed lips was WHY the Israeli's added the bottle opener!

If you bend a feed lip on a bottle top somethings wrong!.....or you've used a Korean AK mag.

Bit of AK mag trivia......during the Soviet-Afghan war troops issued with the AKM and AKMS prefered to use steel mags whenever possible as they believed that shards from shattered bakelite mags wouldn't be picked up on x-rays if they were injured.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:30 am**

A photo from the Izhmash factory, ever AK is frozen to -50c and test fired.And that's every rifle, not one from a batch.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:38 am**

The cold war continues in Russia.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:45 am**

dromia wrote:The cold war continues in Russia.

I does, I wouldn't fancy working in -50 all day!.At the other end of the scale they heat them to +50c as well and any that fail are rejected.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:08 am**

But are those tests done on the UK versions ?

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:10 am**

joe wrote:But are those tests done on the UK versions ?

Yes...they're tested, fail, then get chucked in that pile of rejects for export as "straight-pull" UK only

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:53 am**

joe wrote:But are those tests done on the UK versions ?

Yes they are, KalashnikovConcern takes pride in all it's products and all are tested the same.The handbook for my SVD has a load of different OTK inspection stamps and signatures, including the inspector that test fired it and the lady that placed it in its box and packaged it up.Thats a level of traceability I haven't seen on a lot of Western Firearms.

saddler wrote:
joe wrote:But are those tests done on the UK versions ?
Yes...they're tested, fail, then get chucked in that pile of rejects for export as "straight-pull" UK only

Oh dear, I wondered how long it would be.......

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:32 pm**

The handbook for my SVD has a load of different OTK inspection stamps and signatures, including the lady that placed it in its box and packaged it up.

Sod the stamp and the signature , did she put her mobile number ?

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:55 pm**

froggy wrote:The handbook for my SVD has a load of different OTK inspection stamps and signatures, including the lady that placed it in its box and packaged it up.

Sod the stamp and the signature , did she put her mobile number ?

No, this one didn't...... And she won't have much luck in getting that Romanian PSL mag to fit no matter how much she tries!!!!

Something tells me this one in Syria knows what to do with a Dragunov

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