Re: Help in identifying AK
An AK like you said (not AK-47), made in Izhmash factory just to give some initial info...
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AK-Gunner
An AK like you said (not AK-47), made in Izhmash factory just to give some initial info...
Thanks! Found a website with some info on the markings that confirms what you are saying.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...ikov-markings/
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Re: Help in identifying AK
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AK-Gunner
An AK like you said (not AK-47), made in Izhmash factory just to give some initial info...
The milled reciever immediately made me think '47...
Re: Help in identifying AK
Hi, maybe try asking @CalibreObscura on Twitter, he may be able to assist. He posts regularly on a variety of Aks used by non state actors in conflict zones.
Re: Help in identifying AK
AK47 Type 3
Milled Receiver - its the good Stuff, production between 1953 and 1954
Russian Made in Izhevsk - later Izhmash
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Hi, maybe try asking @CalibreObscura on Twitter, he may be able to assist. He posts regularly on a variety of Aks used by non state actors in conflict zones.
Thanks. Have sent him DM.
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A-R
The milled reciever immediately made me think '47...
Common error caused by false information floating around. The original production rifle called AK-47 was a stamped steel version of the weapon. Yes, stamped steel. But there were lots of problems with the manufacturing process in the less than perfect soviet factories, the riveting technique with 1 mm thin sheets of steel was one of the most important ones, so the Kalashnikov team came up with a quick and dirty solution: a milled receiver.
So they redraw the blueprints and came up with the second production version of the rifle with a milled receiver and named it "AK". Just... "AK". Not... AK-47. Calling an "AK" or an "AKM" an AK-47" is like calling all models of a Glock "Glock 17".
Sorry, one of my pet peeves...
When they finally got their manufacturing processes up to the needed technological level, the team came up with a new version of the original concept and it was adopted to use as "AKM".
Re: Help in identifying AK
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AK-Gunner
Common error caused by false information floating around. The original production rifle called AK-47 was a stamped steel version of the weapon. Yes, stamped steel. But there were lots of problems with the manufacturing process in the less than perfect soviet factories, the riveting technique with 1 mm thin sheets of steel was one of the most important ones, so the Kalashnikov team came up with a quick and dirty solution: a milled receiver.
So they redraw the blueprints and came up with the second production version of the rifle with a milled receiver and named it "AK". Just... "AK". Not... AK-47. Calling an "AK" or an "AKM" an AK-47" is like calling all models of a Glock "Glock 17".
Sorry, one of my pet peeves...
When they finally got their manufacturing processes up to the needed technological level, the team came up with a new version of the original concept and it was adopted to use as "AKM".
Now I know why my wife says my head is filled with weird "did you know?" shit. That is very interesting
Re: Help in identifying AK
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AK-Gunner
Common error caused by false information floating around. The original production rifle called AK-47 was a stamped steel version of the weapon. Yes, stamped steel. But there were lots of problems with the manufacturing process in the less than perfect soviet factories, the riveting technique with 1 mm thin sheets of steel was one of the most important ones, so the Kalashnikov team came up with a quick and dirty solution: a milled receiver.
So they redraw the blueprints and came up with the second production version of the rifle with a milled receiver and named it "AK". Just... "AK". Not... AK-47. Calling an "AK" or an "AKM" an AK-47" is like calling all models of a Glock "Glock 17".
Sorry, one of my pet peeves...
When they finally got their manufacturing processes up to the needed technological level, the team came up with a new version of the original concept and it was adopted to use as "AKM".
also already having tooling equipped for milling blocks helped alot :)