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DocAwe said:
The jews make the best AK currently on the market IMO.
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Foley said:
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I mean, technically. However, you really can't see the Kalashnikov lineage in the 550 family of rifles. However, when you look at the Galil or Valmet rifles, you can absolutely see they are based on the Kalashnikov action. Now given the choice between something like the 551 or 552, a Galil, or an RK-95, damn skippy I'm taking the SIG (so long as it's Swiss made).
 
The Dude said:
I mean, technically. However, you really can't see the Kalashnikov lineage in the 550 family of rifles. However, when you look at the Galil or Valmet rifles, you can absolutely see they are based on the Kalashnikov action. Now given the choice between something like the 551 or 552, a Galil, or an RK-95, damn skippy I'm taking the SIG (so long as it's Swiss made).
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You can also go buy a Galil today and not have to mortgage your house.
 
The Dude said:
I personally don't understand the appeal of most Russian weapons. It could be my experience years back building semi-auto AKs has soured my view of Russian weapons and made me biased, but I just don't really get it. Like, I can see the appeal of the Pecheneg and bullpup PKM, the SVU, the AN-94, and some of the Russian SMGs. And some of their latest stuff is kind of interesting, especially the ones where they've tried to move away from just iterating on old Soviet designs. But most of their other individual weapons just aren't interesting to me, especially Kalashnikov rifles and Makarov pistols, and I just can't feature why so many people go ga-ga over them. I'd much rather have Western weapons.
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It’s mostly the stalker larp I feel. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s also an underlining of hating the US and don’t want to use the icky AR15 because it’s too right wing coded. I do believe Karl or someone around InRangeTV complained about this being the case for leftists.
 
The Dude said:
I personally don't understand the appeal of most Russian weapons. It could be my experience years back building semi-auto AKs has soured my view of Russian weapons and made me biased, but I just don't really get it. Like, I can see the appeal of the Pecheneg and bullpup PKM, the SVU, the AN-94, and some of the Russian SMGs. And some of their latest stuff is kind of interesting, especially the ones where they've tried to move away from just iterating on old Soviet designs. But most of their other individual weapons just aren't interesting to me, especially Kalashnikov rifles and Makarov pistols, and I just can't feature why so many people go ga-ga over them. I'd much rather have Western weapons.
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Part of it is boomers treating kalashnikovs with weird kid gloves like they do everything else that is an established thing that also rubs against their programming. They're the macintoshes of the gun world.

Tokarevs are cool but they're terrible guns, they're like slavic nigger 1911s. But the makarov? I got no clue, man. Complete mystery to me too.

AncientPhosphur said:
It’s mostly the stalker larp I feel.
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Stalker chads know that nato guns are superior (except for 9x39, a round so powerful that even fmj will magically cut through plates like butter)
 
Speaking of S.T.A.L.K.E.R larp, does anyone have experience with the 22. lr G36? I was thinking about picking up one of the MP-40 or STG replicas but I'm leaning towards the G36.
Inb4 just buy a 10/22
I already have one

hog cranking frog said:
Keep getting wildly out bid on Citoris on gunbroker. Might just take some Xmas bonus and buy a new one.
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Odds are its shillbidding. I don't even bother with GB unless it has a buy now option. What are you trying to get?
 
WASR96 said:
Yep. I played the bidding war twice on that site. It's just chasing the dragon. Still haven't used the buy now on any guns because they're always way over market value.
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Yeah. I've never bought any guns on the site. I used to buy parts kits on there before covid. The last thing I bought from GB was an AMD-65 kit back in 2020 that was hard to find because the lister misspelled it. Type in "parts kit" now and its fucking awful. Niggas are so lazy they just relist parts kits with the image from the site they're trying to flip it from. I swear to G dash d, Arms of America will get in kits and then some faggot will immediately relist the kit +$100 MSRP with THE EXACT thumbnail.
 
hog cranking frog said:
Eyeing a Beretta A300 ultima sporting or any other similarly priced semi auto target gun, anyone have experience with them? Sick of running a 32inch pump action for trap. It's long, heavy and by the 250th trigger pull is another CTE. Tried someone's semi that also had a mercury capsule installed in the stock (could be boomer magic idk) and it felt so soft. Seeing new ones as low as $700.
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They're outstanding although I'd say save a bit more and get a 1301 (I have the Pro version with the electric blue finish and it's amazing)
DocAwe said:
You can also go buy a Galil today and not have to mortgage your house.
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Exactly. IWI sells Galils all day. SIG Switzerland.... Doesn't sell Jack shit to the USA anymore.
big pauper said:
But the makarov? I got no clue, man. Complete mystery to me too.
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It's an excellent PP/PPK clone in a round that's at the limit of a steel blowback gun's ability to handle. At the limit so it's fun, not at the limit so it's painful.
 
ifunny pride world wide said:
Odds are its shillbidding. I don't even bother with GB unless it has a buy now option. What are you trying to get?
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Looking to find a used clays gun for 1k or less. Got a 34" barrel turkish pump I use now and I kinda hate it. Semi, OU anything other than this piece of crap. Might be silly but it's stopping me from going to the trap club with how much I hate the pump.
 
The Dude said:
I personally don't understand the appeal of most Russian weapons. It could be my experience years back building semi-auto AKs has soured my view of Russian weapons and made me biased, but I just don't really get it. Like, I can see the appeal of the Pecheneg and bullpup PKM, the SVU, the AN-94, and some of the Russian SMGs. And some of their latest stuff is kind of interesting, especially the ones where they've tried to move away from just iterating on old Soviet designs. But most of their other individual weapons just aren't interesting to me, especially Kalashnikov rifles and Makarov pistols, and I just can't feature why so many people go ga-ga over them. I'd much rather have Western weapons.
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It's price dependent IMO and the cool ones are all too expensive to be worth it. VSS, SVD, SMGs, MGs, weird guns like what you mentioned, too expensive. Even if I won the powerball I wouldn't spend tens of thousands of dollars on any of those. The not as cool ones are expensive now too as I've previously mentioned no Mosin Nagant, SKS is worth the $600+ you see for the good ones, AKs are not worth $2,000 I don't care who made them. What's left for cheap is pretty much junk and you'd have to be a complete slavaboo or a collector to be interested in them at all.
 
The Dude said:
I personally don't understand the appeal of most Russian weapons. It could be my experience years back building semi-auto AKs has soured my view of Russian weapons and made me biased, but I just don't really get it. Like, I can see the appeal of the Pecheneg and bullpup PKM, the SVU, the AN-94, and some of the Russian SMGs. And some of their latest stuff is kind of interesting, especially the ones where they've tried to move away from just iterating on old Soviet designs. But most of their other individual weapons just aren't interesting to me, especially Kalashnikov rifles and Makarov pistols, and I just can't feature why so many people go ga-ga over them. I'd much rather have Western weapons.
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personally speaking? I just think they look cool lol.
i'm sure most other actual shooters opinions' differ, maybe they prefer the feel of something like an AK or the simplicity and reliability. i suppose it all boils down to the person really. I imagine their cost is also a factor, I'm a eurofag my nigga so I have no idea there to be honest.

i dont get people who piss themselves over skeleton stock AK's, or the folder stocks and shit, and the makarovs though, that shit is weird. Those things are fugly, and I imagine quite uncomfortable to use.
 
hog cranking frog said:
Looking to find a used clays gun for 1k or less. Got a 34" barrel turkish pump I use now and I kinda hate it. Semi, OU anything other than this piece of crap. Might be silly but it's stopping me from going to the trap club with how much I hate the pump.
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Good luck. I overpayed for a field model Miroku O/U.

I’ve been wanting a target gun again for a while. I regret selling my SKB O/U years ago, but I was going through personal issues and needed the cash. Plus that gun would break all the time.

It’s worth it to wait for a nice O/U with adjustable comb and interchangeable chokes with 30” barrels
 
DEAD BIRD said:
and I imagine quite uncomfortable to use
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For direct blowback handgun, they're actually not bad to shoot. Pretty much zero felt recoil, though I did swap the original spring with a heavier one when I bought mine way back in the day. Now they're just not worth it because you'll spend way more getting 9x18 than if you just had a normal 9mm that can eat the cheapest 115g for a range day.
 
big pauper said:
Part of it is boomers treating kalashnikovs with weird kid gloves like they do everything else that is an established thing that also rubs against their programming. They're the macintoshes of the gun world.
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More like they are Linux distribution with a lot of forks of varying quality (country of origin) despite being the same stuff under the hood and all of them are wildly outdated compared to other distributions and the users who run them are using outdated information to justify their usage.

big pauper said:
Tokarevs are cool but they're terrible guns, they're like slavic nigger 1911s. But the makarov? I got no clue, man. Complete mystery to me too.
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I never understood the Makarov as ECW and there is notable number of people who do this. I think even Ian does this because he mentioned on a video l that he felt that the Makarov was a good self defense weapon.

big pauper said:
Stalker chads know that nato guns are superior (except for 9x39, a round so powerful that even fmj will magically cut through plates like butter)
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This is the caliber of Russian weaponry (and 9x21mm) I would be interested in because all those weapons don’t have good western equivalents. Yeah there .458 SOCOM but it’s just another AR conversion, yawn.
 
The Dude said:
I personally don't understand the appeal of most Russian weapons. It could be my experience years back building semi-auto AKs has soured my view of Russian weapons and made me biased, but I just don't really get it. Like, I can see the appeal of the Pecheneg and bullpup PKM, the SVU, the AN-94, and some of the Russian SMGs. And some of their latest stuff is kind of interesting, especially the ones where they've tried to move away from just iterating on old Soviet designs. But most of their other individual weapons just aren't interesting to me, especially Kalashnikov rifles and Makarov pistols, and I just can't feature why so many people go ga-ga over them. I'd much rather have Western weapons.
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People can like certain guns for tons of reason some of them practical others stupid. What appeals to you might not appeal at all to someone else.

For eastern bloc stuff specifically though I think they fall into three categories.

  1. Cheap Blasters - This group got into these weapons because for a long time they were really good value for money. You could get a cheap reliable firearm that shot equality cheap ammo. They might not have cared about mosins before but why not buy one its $50. This group is pretty much extinct now with the current state of the import market but might still cover people who stocked up early.
  2. The Hipster Contranian.-They own these guns because they are not an ar-15 or glock and they want to be special. Commie larpers are usually in this group.
  3. The True Collectors- This group is drawn to the mystique of some of the most iconic weapons of the 20th century. They are drawn in by their apprentice in pop culture and enjoy the history behind the guns.
Of course people can be some combination of these as well.
 
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