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Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 4:59 pm
by 25Pdr
Watching a Film....Seal Team 8 Behind Enemy Lines.

Here's a screen grab of what looks like a left handed AK. Do they exist or have they got the image reversed somehow ?

Image

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:25 pm
by BamBam
Image reversed, the beret is on the wrong side too.

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:33 pm
by snayperskaya
Image reversed, no L/H AKs......

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:45 pm
by 25Pdr
The Beret...Never noticed. :good:

Do they still use Film then or was it done digitally?

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:56 pm
by Sixshot6
There is a replaceable dust cover with a left-handed charger but its mainly for semi auto ak's I think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwCn7gEsDA

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:20 pm
by breacher
Sixshot6 wrote:There is a replaceable dust cover with a left-handed charger but its mainly for semi auto ak's I think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwCn7gEsDA
A solution for a problem that does not really exist.

Left hand can be used to make ready quite easily.

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:24 pm
by Sixshot6
breacher wrote:
Sixshot6 wrote:There is a replaceable dust cover with a left-handed charger but its mainly for semi auto ak's I think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwCn7gEsDA
A solution for a problem that does not really exist.

Left hand can be used to make ready quite easily.
Too true, just thought I'd mention it as it was the only thing that sprung to my mind that could qualify.

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:41 am
by Andy632
BamBam wrote:Image reversed, the beret is on the wrong side too.
Could it not be a FFL guy in Afrique; they wear their beret's wrong way round (but I would never say that to any of them!)

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:01 am
by DL.
Only ten percent of people are left handed, and all four of the firers in the snap shot appear to be firing left handed. I think the odds of that are non-existent, and therefore the image has been reversed.

Re: Left Handed AK47??

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:42 pm
by snayperskaya
DL. wrote:Only ten percent of people are left handed, and all four of the firers in the snap shot appear to be firing left handed. I think the odds of that are non-existent, and therefore the image has been reversed.
They are non-existent, in the Russian army left handed troops have to shoot the Dragunov etc with a scope that is already offset to the left.....makes for some interesting head positions!.