More like the quasi-functional wagies who don't know how to budget, disengage from personal finance because "capitalism is bad", and then blame everyone else for the fact that they live paycheck to paycheck.
To be fair guns and accessories are little more than larping props for a big chunk of "gun culture community".
shhh you'll make the guys who think they're going to be warlords (with their DD MK18 clones, OpsCore lids, late gen NVG costing as much as a car, and "battle rigs" set up to stop multiple hits from armor piercing rifle rounds) mad.
out of all the stuff karl does, i did appreciate him testing and using gear that isnt the top dollar stuff. back when i was super into guns i was a budget conscious poor fag so seeing poorfag gear beings used was something i liked. not everyone who likes and owns guns can just drop thousands on gun + gear + ammo to run a tournament with.
To be fair to those queers, I'd sure love one of those DD MK18 clones...
What I mean is he spent just as much money if not more on his poorfag jank setup with several illuminators than if he had just got a perst3 that has a focusable illuminator with like 20 brightness settings on a dial and he knows the perst 3 exists. He did the same thing with the zenitco AK furniture and complained it was heavy despite getting the side rail instead of the top dust cover and he also knew the B33 top rail exists. He went and got an EOTech only to put it on a UTG tier chink riser when you can just get a basic cheap riser like the leupold one I use that will also fit a magnifier. He of course has a $300 BCG in a $1700 AR-15 but can't be assed to have a corresponding investment of cost into anything else. There's value (like the perst 3) and then there's just buying poorfag shit because of dumb financial decisions.
Of course Karl the Cuck buys Zentico furniture, including a side rail, you know, the stuff that's infamously heavy, and then complains about it being heavy.
It's a limitation of a platform designed in the late 1940s when only certain rifles even had scopes. That being said, there are certain ways to get top mounted (dust cover mounted) optic to hold zero on an AK. All of the US ones, expressly Texas Weapon Systems, are dog shit. The most known to work system outside of going full Zenitco is getting an AK with a hinged dust cover like a M85 or M92. If you mount a rail for an optic between the hinge and the rear sight, it's the strongest part of the dust cover and will usually retain zero in Semi mode. I've personally attested to this with several of my own rifles though I am sure mileage will vary.
Zenitco short handguard and b33 top cover adds very minimal weight since you are adding very little material because it replaces OEM parts. It's not even half a pound combined iirc. The side rail adds about a pound on its own and more height over bore.
Well shit. I swear weight has been a running issue with zentico stuff. Maybe it was only their older stuff? IDK, AKs aren't my thing.
The Zenitco is too heavy thing has always been a meme with /k/ faggots and guntubers with no upper arm strength whatsoever. The kit adds maybe a pound to what is already a heavy rifle to begin with. Keep in mind this is the weak faggot that helped make a plastic AR, so I'd take any criticisms of his about weapon weight with a dump trunk of salt.
It amuses me that the wimpiest looking dude there ends up being the sole Chad.
My point was Karl COULD have added only a little weight, but he picked the heaviest possible Zenitco setup and then made it into an issue for himself. He does shit like pick the KP-15 lower which is only 4 ounces ligher than basic bitch milspec m4 with the basic stock and then ADDS 4 ounce heavier JP SCS recoil spring/buffer system and negates the entire weight savings with the polymer lower and makes it cost more (negating its only other advantage besides profit margin.) You could just have a regular buffer of a similar weight and flatwire spring (KP-15s can't have a flat wire spring) and it will be smoother than any JP SCS bullshit for 25% of the cost and you're not beholden to JP for tuning buffer weights.
*me and my SKS just sitting here, along with a surplus chest rig i got of amazon*
Best case scenario: that Paul guy is a glowie.
