Re: Review Of Guns In Iraq

dumpster4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
There is a comparison of the M-16 with the AK-47 at:
http://state-of-flux.blogspot.com/2005/12/eugene-stoner-versus-mikhail.html
Does this seem accurate?

I've never been even near a real M-16, but a couple of minor points
about the AK-47:

You don't need to let go of the pistol grip completely to work the
selector. It's faster to find the trigger if you keep your thumb
behind the pistol grip and just extend a couple of fingers to the
selector.

And it doesn't take too long to learn to change magazines in a couple
of seconds, even though it'll never be as fast or easy as with a M-16,
I think.

Sure, the sights are bad - except if you first learned to shoot on your
grandpa's Mosin-Nagant or some such. When I was a recruit, most of us
got Valmet m/62 AK-clones (with improved sights among the differences)
but some got original AK-47s. And that batch's best shot in the brigade,
at the track at least, was someone with the AK-47.

(The Valmet m/62 doesn't fit the gunports on a lot of Soviet-made
vehicles, which we had too. It gets stuck on the front sight.)


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