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AK and AR => AK Family: Saiga, MAK, Vepr, WASR, Zastava, etc. => Topic started by: Dannyboy53 on April 23, 2016, 06:48:35 PM

Title: AK47 rust bucket
Post by: Dannyboy53 on April 23, 2016, 06:48:35 PM
Some of you might have seen this on Gunboards' site I believe. Story goes it was taken from some poachers in an African country and supposedly still fires. I would NOT be the one to pull the trigger on this abomination. But it is a testament to the resiliency of the AK!

Now...let the bidding begin!

(http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh618/smithdblueDannyboy53/Odds%20and%20ends/AK47%20rust%20bucket_zpsksgncdcx.jpg)
Title: Re: AK47 rust bucket
Post by: carls sks on April 23, 2016, 06:52:57 PM
 :o rofl banghead1
Title: Re: AK47 rust bucket
Post by: running-man on April 23, 2016, 10:40:32 PM
After tracing it back as far as I could, here's a bit of the backstory on this one, it's a old Chinese type 56:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/04/12/214905/

Popular Mechanics also has a blurb about it:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a20411/this-zombie-ak-47-still-works/

It's also one various Russian sites (translated via "The Google"):
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://slovodel.com/488379-bessmertnyj-ak-47&usg=ALkJrhjgCkFaBizyrUfqN7ZHoLa8I4YHOA
Title: Re: AK47 rust bucket
Post by: Dannyboy53 on April 23, 2016, 11:12:08 PM
Fascinating running-man, thank you. This old Kalashnikov has generated considerable interest around the net!
Title: Re: AK47 rust bucket
Post by: spongemonkey on May 05, 2016, 01:09:54 AM
Yes, I saw that elsewhere possibly on gunboards site.  Amazing isnt it!