GUNS/RLTD Once Again For Your entertainment....AR vs AK vs Mosin

[ShadowMan]

Once again - for your entertainment.....and enlightenment -



AR15: You can pick off prairie dogs at 300 meters all day long

AK47: You can pick off a deer pretty easy at 300 meters

Mosin-Nagant: You get out of your truck, see an elk on top of a hill, and realize you really can use iron sights that far.



AR15: You measure your misses by sub MOA measurements

AK47: You miss and, and aim a bit lower this time.

Mosin-Nagant: Even if you miss the shockwave of the bullet will kill the animal.



AR15: You are careful to keep in clean in the field.

AK47: You don't worry so much about some dirt getting in it.

Mosin-Nagant: It still has gritty grease inside it from when the Finnish army put it into storage.



AR15: Your bayonet will do an alright job of butchering your kill if needed.

AK47: The bayonet doubles as a decent hunting knife.

Mosin-Nagant: Your bayonet can be used to spit roast an entire pig.



AR15: Nice and light for carrying over obstructions.

AK47: Handy package for carrying over obstructions.

Mosin-Nagant: You can pole vault over obstructions.



AR15: Can't run dry or you get seizure.

AK47: Can run dry, but may cause lacquered ammo to stick in chamber.

Mosin-Nagant: Just handling the bolt gives it enough oil to operate smoothly.



What your wife does after she finds out you spent the tax refund / stimulus payment on a -

AR15: She yells at you for spending the whole thing on a plastic varmint rifle.

AK47: She is disappointed at what an ugly rifle you spent half of it on.

Mosin-Nagant: She doesn’t even notice the Mosin-Nagant because of the diamond ring you got her with all the left over cash.



AR15: Melts IN the fire

AK47: Starts ON fire

Mosin-Nagant: Starts THE fire



AR15: With a custom barrel, Varmint Scope, and gunsmith trigger job, you can vaporize prairie dogs at 600 yards.

AK47: With a good rain, you can wait hidden in the mud at the side of a watering hole and wait for the game to come to you for a shot within 10 yards.

Mosin-Nagant: With a solid shooting position, you can hit that deer on the other side of the valley... and recover the bullet in the tree it was standing in front of.



AR15: You can buy 100 round magazines that require dry-carbon lubricant.

AK47: You can do push-ups on your 30 round steel mag (Saw this in a SPETSNATZ documentary).

Mosin-Nagant: You can use the buttstock to pound in a tent stake and if you don't have tent stakes, the bayonet will work as one.



AR-15: Carried by elite special forces and highly-trained American soldiers

AK-47: Carried by illiterate peons and unwilling conscripts.

Mosin-Nagant-Nagant: Carried by Vassily Zaitsev.



AR15: Might just stop that charging terrorist with a three round burst

AK47: Would stop the terrorist in his tracks

Mosin-Nagant: Would stop the charging terrorist, his three buddies, and blow up the IED in the next block from the shockwave of the bullet...



AR15: Shoots a .22.

AK47: Shoots a carbine round.

Mosin-Nagant: Shoots a cannonball.



AR15: Shot by the free world

AK47: Shot at the free world

Mosin-Nagant: Almost free to shoot



AR15: Shoot it in the air it goes a mile

AK47: Shoot it in the air it goes 1/2 a mile

Mosin-Nagant: Shoot it in the air and someone in Berlin gets hit by a bullet.



AR15: Made out of used cars and recycled milk jugs

AK47: Made out of oil rigs and packing crates

Mosin-Nagant: Made out of old water pipe and goat carts



AR15: Sounds like a popgun

AK47: Sounds like a machine gun

Mosin-Nagant: Sounds like the Trinity Atomic Blast



AR15: Sometimes mistaken for a toy

AK47: Sometimes mistaken for random parts

Mosin-Nagant: Sometimes mistaken for an artillery piece, or an anti-aircraft gun



AR15: Pray (it works) and spray

AK47: Spray and pray (you hit something)

Mosin-Nagant: The hammer of God



AR15: Makes grown men laugh.

AK47: Makes grown men cry.

Mosin-Nagant: Makes grown men incontinent.



AR15: Finicky when dirty.

AK47: Still works when dirty.

Mosin-Nagant: Arrives Dirty from the Distributor.



AR15: Don’t run over it...it will Break

AK47: Run over it, it still shoots.

Mosin-Nagant: Run over it and it will flatten your Tires!



AR15: Makes a Pop when fired

AK47: Makes a Boom when fired

Mosin-Nagant: What the hell was that???

 

[ShadowMan]

AR15: Ok, I got One!

AK47: Ok, I have 3 different ones.

Mosin-Nagant: Ok, I have Mosin-itis and have 14 and looking for More....



AR15: Makes a small hole in a tree

AK47: Makes a medium sized hole in a tree

Mosin-Nagant: Blows tree in half making firewood available.



AR15: Kills rabbits and coyotes

AK47: Kills pigs and small deer

Mosin-Nagant: If you can’t kill it with a Mosin-Nagant, it can’t be killed



AR15: Safe to stow in poly bags

AK47: Safe to stow in a rice paddy

Mosin-Nagant: Safe to stow in a landfill



AR15: 100 round beta c drum mags you can load with a speed loader

AK47: 75 round drum magazine you have to reload individually by pressing a lever

Mosin-Nagant: You can store 20 of them in a drum with about 1000 rounds on stripper clips



AR15: Has a nice Airsoft copy

AK47: Has a nice Airsoft copy

Mosin-Nagant: Who needs Airsoft when you can fire blanks.



AR15: Makes a nice paperweight

AK47: Makes a nice doorstop

Mosin-Nagant: Makes a nice baseball bat and way cheaper than aluminum



AR15: Loyal following of people that have more money than sense.

AK47: Loyal following of people that have a longer police record than the range of the rifle.

Mosin-Nagant: Loyal following of people that have more rounds of ammo than they got hairs on all family members' heads combined.



AR-15: Your enemies will giggle

AK-47: Your enemies will take cover and swear as they ready their weapons

Mosin-Nagant: Your enemies will flatten themselves to the ground and offer up prayers of salvation to whatever god they believe in...then they will die.



AR-15: Drop it from ten feet and it shatters.

AK-47: Drop it from ten feet and it still works.

Mosin-Nagant: Drop it from ten feet and it's more lethal than a lawn dart.



AR-15: You can melt it with a magnifying glass.

AK-47: Under a magnifying glass, you can see the ingrained dirt.

Mosin-Nagant: Under a magnifying glass, you can see the soaked-in BLOOD.



AR-15: Safe, Semiautomatic, Full-Auto (more like full-JAM)

AK-47: Safe (dubious), Semiautomatic, Full-Auto

Mosin-Nagant: Kill, Maim, Destroy



AR-15: When you run out of ammo, duck for cover and spend 15 minutes cleaning and reloading

AK-47: You could probably rig it up to fire chain-linked ammo

Mosin-Nagant: When you run out of ammo (never) you can shoot chaff and langrage from it (wikipedia that)



AR-15: My daddy bought me this weapon for my birthday

AK-47: I saved two weeks' paychecks to buy this.

Mosin-Nagant: I think it was free...



AR-15: My rifle floated away in the flood

AK-47: My rifle was submerged for three weeks by the flood and still works

Mosin-Nagant: I fired my rifle and the flood waters parted...



AR15: You keep your bayonet in the kitchen because it is a good steak knife

AK47: You keep your bayonet in your toolbox because it is a good wire cutter

Mosin-Nagant: You no longer fix your bayonet in the house because the last time you did you poked a hole in the ceiling when you stood up



AR15: For $1000 you can get one

AK47: For $1000 you can get two and 300 rounds of ammo

Mosin-Nagant: For $1000 you can get 16 of them plus a Bulgarian armory's worth of surplus ammo



AR15: Can start brush fires with incendiary ammunition.

AK47: Can start brush fires by dropping it after the hand guard catches fire.

Mosin-Nagant: Can start brush fires by firing from anything lower than a kneeling position.



AR15: Built with custom parts, nice trigger, all the bells and whistles $1500+

AK47: Modified with aftermarket and 1,000 rounds of ammo not even $1500

Mosin-Nagant: Stock, with 1,000 rounds maybe $300, meaning you get $1200 to spend on more beer



AR15: Takes a few men out in a sweeper movement

AK47: Takes most men out in a sweeper movement

Mosin-Nagant: Shoot one the sonic boom will handle the rest



AR15: Used in negotiations

AK47: Reason for negotiations

Mosin-Nagant: Negotiator



AR15: I think I felt it kick

AK47: Kinda like a 20 gauge

Mosin-Nagant: Dislocates your shoulder

Mosin-Nagant with heavy ball: Where's my freaking shoulder



AR15: Takes 3 rounds to take out your enemy

AK47: takes 30 rounds sprayed and hopefully you hit your target

Mosin-Nagant: 1 shot, 50 kills



AR15: More options than a custom Rolls Royce. No two guns are alike.

AK47: Same number of options as a Toyota Corolla. Most guns look alike.

Mosin-Nagant: Options: You want a bayonet with that?

 

[ShadowMan]

The limits of customizing a-

AR15: How much $ you got.

AK47: What you can find in the Tapco catalog.

Mosin-Nagant: How much duct tape Bubba's got.



AR15: Such light recoil, you could put on over your privates and fire.

AK47: Recoil manageable enough for anyone to use it.

Mosin-Nagant: Recoil that registers as small tremors in the earth itself.



AR15: Bullet starts tumbling the moment it meets sufficient resistance, like paper

AK47: Bullet will continue trajectory until it hits something solid, like a deer

Mosin-Nagant: It keeps going and going and going....



AR15: You probably drive a Lexus

AK47: If you're lucky to possess a vehicle, it's referred to as a "Technical"

Mosin-Nagant: You hang truck-balls off your trailer hitch, and you're proud of them.



AR15: Lots of fancy optics available

AK47: You can bolt some stuff to the side

Mosin-Nagant: Who cares about optics when the barrel is long enough to smack the enemy over the head without even leaving your foxhole.



AR15: Used by Special Forces to kill terrorists

AK47: Used by revolutionaries and any two bit nation's illiterate conscripts to kill each other

Mosin-Nagant: Used by Simo Häyhä to kill Russian conscripts



AR15: Requires over 1000 rounds to break in

AK47: May need some breaking in

Mosin-Nagant: The stripper clips require more breaking in



AR15: Can take down smaller sized game.

AK47: Can take down average sized game.

Mosin-Nagant: Can take down satellites.



AR15: Invented 50 years ago by a consummate engineer

AK47: Invented 60 years ago by wounded tank sergeant

Mosin-Nagant: Invented 117 years ago by two drunks on a budget.



AR15: Star wars

AK47: Holy wars

Mosin-Nagant: Class wars



AR15: Makes small holes

AK47: Makes big holes

Mosin-Nagant: Makes black holes



AR15: Nice lightweight ammo can be carried in quantity.

AK47: You can carry a chest pouch with lots of mags with no problem.

Mosin-Nagant: Ammo is also used in tanks, and larger artillery pieces.



Domestic uses of the bayonet:

AR15: You affix it to your rifle and use it as a dibble to plant tulip bulbs in the garden.

AK47: You affix it to your rifle and use it to trim low-hanging tree branches.

Mosin-Nagant: You affix it to your rifle, accidentally stab it into the ceiling and bring down a square foot of plaster, and spend the next week sleeping on the couch because your wife is pissed off at you.



AR15: Comes in Pink Hello Kitty and Barbie

AK47: Comes in Pink Hello Kitty

Mosin-Nagant: What’s pink?



AR15: Iran-Contra was a cover-up

AK47: Afghanistan (1980) was a cover-up

Mosin-Nagant: Chernobyl was a cover-up



You call the thing with the ammo in it a "clip" and...

AR15: Your buddies glare at you and don't speak to you for a month.

AK47: Your buddies smile at you with their gold teeth and "blast another cap."

Mosin-Nagant: Your buddies smile at you because it's one of the few times you all get to call something a "clip"... and be right.



AR15: Clean with fancy lubes and solvents with special tools.

AK47: Clean? In Soviet Russia AK clean you!

Mosin-Nagant: Squirt some Windex down the bore. Ready for another 500 rounds tomorrow!



AR15: You can be an expert with this rifle after basic training

AK47: You can be an expert with this rifle after a seminar at the Holiday Inn on AKs

Mosin-Nagant: You can be an expert with this rifle after spending 30 minutes on the internet reading forums, and watching YouTube videos



AR15: Can shoot a squirrel and have a great meal

AK47: Can shoot a squirrel and have some meat left to eat.

Mosin-Nagant: There is a tail left around here somewhere.



AR15: Puts some countries air force to shame

AK47: Used by countries who can’t afford an air force

Mosin-Nagant: Could be used to take down an air force



AR15: Shoot one and you'll be owning one soon!

AK47: Shoot one and you will buy some high capacity magazines and 1000 rounds of ammo

Mosin-Nagant: Shoot one and you will own 15 and want another!



AR15: Goes pew pew pew

AK47: Goes pow pow pow

Mosin-Nagant: Goes BOOOOOOOM!



AR15: Made by a stoned Eugene

AK47: Made by an injured Kalashnikov

Mosin-Nagant: Made by a drunken Belgian and a crazy Ivan



Owners drink of choice

AR15: Cognac

AK47: Malt liquor

Mosin-Nagant: Brake cleaner

 

[ShadowMan]

AR15: Makes a tiny hole with no fragmentation or undue extra injury, in accordance with the Geneva Convention

AK47: Makes a big hole and sometimes flings severed body parts around, not in accordance with the Geneva Convention

Mosin-Nagant: One of the reasons the Geneva Convention was written



AR15: Can shoot it off your head and it won't kill you

AK47: Shoot it off your head and you die

Mosin-Nagant: Shoot if from your shoulder and you need it popped back into place



AR15: Used to kill Enemies of the State.

AK47: Used by Enemies of the State.

Mosin-Nagant: Enemy at the Gates.



AR15: Good for shooting poodles.

AK47: Good for shooting enemies of the state

Mosin-Nagant: Good for shooting light armored vehicles



AR15: Keeps gunsmiths in business

AK47: Keeps drug dealers and terrorists in business

Mosin-Nagant: Keeps Chiropractors in business



AR15: Built like a Toy.

AK47: Built like a Sewing Machine.

Mosin-Nagant: Built like a Tank!



AR15: Too much Plastic.

AK47: Too Much Sheet metal.

Mosin-Nagant: Too much of everything!



AR15: stays in the Vault.

AK47: not allowed in the vault.

Mosin-Nagant: Can be used to Pole Vault!



AR15: In your Heart you think it's ugly.

AR15: In your Heart you know it's ugly.

Mosin-Nagant: You're afraid to call it ugly!



AR15: It doesn't go anywhere near <shudder> water... Unless you're drinking Evian

AK47: If water touches it, it would mistake it for a cleaning solvent and fall apart

Mosin-Nagant: Row-row-row your boat, gently down the Volga...



AR15: If it gets in the Mekong River, you need to clean it before firing.

AK47: If it gets in the Mekong River, shake the water out before firing.

Mosin-Nagant: Used as an oar to paddle up and down the Mekong river



AR15: Used to attack soldiers building a bridge across the Mekong

AK47: Used to protect soldiers building a bridge across the Mekong

Mosin-Nagant: Used to actually build the bridge across the Mekong.



AR15: Plastics make it possible

AK47: Sheet metal make it possible

Mosin-Nagant: Driftwood makes it possible



AR15: Nice useful little round.

AK47: Very functional round.

Mosin-Nagant: Anti Tank Round



AR15: Useful against unarmored foe

AK47: Useful against armored foe

Mosin-Nagant: Useful against foe on the other side of the battlefield!



AR15: Useful for hosing down forward edge of the battle area...

AK47: Useful for hosing down sky over forward edge of the battle area...

Mosin-Nagant: Useful for hosing down rear of the battle area, enemy reserves and basic training camps at home...



AR15: Thousands of moving parts, held together by hundreds of bolts, screws, and precision welds.

AK47: Several dozen moving parts, held together by a few screws and some drunken Ivan's light-sabering with an acetylene torch.

Mosin-Nagant: TWO MOVING PARTS. TWO SCREWS. .



AR15: Owner votes for John McCain

AK47: Owner prays for Barack Hussein Osama

Mosin-Nagant: Owner can overthrow the government no matter who becomes president.



AR15: One tenth the firepower at 10 times the price

AK47: Half the Firepower at twice the price

Mosin-Nagant: 10 times the firepower at one tenth the price



AR15: Turns little rocks into pebbles

AK47: Turns big rocks into little rocks

Mosin-Nagant: Makes molehills out of mountains



AR15: One-inch groups at 100 yards.

AK47: Five to six inch groups at 100 yards.

Mosin-Nagant: Muzzle is one inch from target at 100 yards.



AR15: Designs drawn on blueprint paper by stoner and a team of experts in a R&D facility

AK47: Designs drawn on notebook paper by Kalashnikov in a Soviet hospital

Mosin-Nagant: Designs drawn on cocktail napkins by a drunken Sergei Mosin-Nagant in a bar



AR15: Clean with a bunch of cloths, patches, picks, brushes and don't lose the small parts. Clean every 100 rounds.

AK47: Run a patch down the barrel; wipe out the chamber every few months.

Mosin-Nagant: Throw it in the dishwasher every couple years.



AR15: New shooters love it because of good ergonomics and light recoil.

AK47: New shooters love it because of light recoil.

Mosin-Nagant: New shooters required to sign a waiver-absolving owner of physical damage incurred from recoil



AR15: Usually equipped with flash hider to reduce muzzle flash.

AK47: Can be equipped with flash hider to reduce muzzle flash.

Mosin-Nagant: Muzzle flash can be used to summon the mother ship.

 

[ShadowMan]

AR15: Can be used to defend home against crooks

AK47: Can be used to defend Oil Tanker against Pirates

Mosin-Nagant: Can replace one of the Deck Guns on the Kirov Class Battle cruiser



AR-15: Defenders

AK-47: Invaders

Mosin-Nagant: Victors



AR15: High cost, high maintenance.

AK47: Low cost, low maintenance.

Mosin-Nagant: What are these cost and maintenance things you speak of?



AR15: Your rifle takes a few hours to sight in, starting at 50 yard and moving up to 200, making minute adjustments with a small screwdriver.

AK47: You slide your rear sight around until you hit the target.

Mosin-Nagant: You hit your rifle with a hammer to sight it.



AR15: Arm of the free world

AK47: Arm of everybody else

Mosin-Nagant: Arm of Chuck Norris



AR15: Politicians fear it.

AK47: Media fears it.

Mosin-Nagant: Zombies fear it!



At an indoor range.

AR15: Gets people's attention because of its wonderful accuracy.

AK47: Gets people's attention because of its rugged reliability.

Mosin-Nagant: Gets people's attention because muzzle flash sets off sprinkler system!



As for accurizing.

AR15: You buy match grade components installed by professional gunsmith and spend thousands of dollars.

AK47: You buy GOOD ammo and optics and spend hundreds of dollars.

Mosin-Nagant: You use an empty soda can, some sand paper and spend seven bucks!



AR15: You can put one hole in a paper target at 100 meters with 30 rounds.

AK47: You can put a .30" hole through 12" of oak, if you can hit it.

Mosin-Nagant: You can knock down everyone else's target with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange.



AR15: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great whiffle bat.

AK47: When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club.

Mosin-Nagant: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood.



AR15: What's recoil?

AK47: Recoil is manageable, even fun.

Mosin-Nagant: Recoil is often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the previous shot.



AR15: Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of angle.

AK47: Your sight adjustment goes to "10", and you've never bothered moving it.

Mosin-Nagant: Your sight adjustment goes to 12 miles and you've actually tried it.



AR15: After a day at the range, you detail strip your rifle and thoroughly clean and lubricate it with only the best products.

AK47: After a day of shooting out back you run a quick patch through the bore and throw your rifle in the back of your truck.

Mosin-Nagant: Cleaning....and maintenance?



AR15: Millennium Falcon

AK47: Star Destroyer

Mosin-Nagant: The Death Star



As for accessories.

AR15: You have a never-ending list of high dollar tacti-cool accessories.

AK47: You have a never-ending list of Chinese made tacti-cool accessories.

Mosin-Nagant: You have carry strap and ammo what more you need comrade?



AR15: Cost a lot of money

AK47: Cost some money

Mosin-Nagant: free with purchase of bayonet



AR15: Backordered.

AK47: Backordered.

Mosin-Nagant: Mail ordered.



AR15: When out of ammo you would rather die than risk damaging your $1200 rifle buy using it as a club.

AK47: When out of ammo your rifle makes a nice club.

Mosin-Nagant: Your rifle is a club that can shoot people.



AR15: When on patrol in Vietnam ammo is so light you can carry around 900 rounds of ammo with you.

AK47: When patrolling your warlord's territory, you carry all the ammo you need in the back of a technical.

Mosin-Nagant: When sent to battle at Stalingrad you are only issued a stripper clip of ammunition and told that you would find your rifle laying on the ground.



AR15: Got it by joining army

AK47: Got it with one paycheck

Mosin-Nagant: Got it by saving beer cans



On prairie dogs:

AR15: You sit back with your buddies poopin them all day long 651hits 3 misses.

AK47: You and another person go to a dog-town fire 4,000 rounds and each get one because they were 8 feet away and deaf.

Mosin-Nagant: You go with 3 other people get the first shot at the first P-dog you see and wipe out the entire colony, leaving a crater that the people who find it claim was a meteor impact.



Regarding muzzle blast:

AR15: Makes a popping sound that is hardly noticed at a public range.

AK47: Makes a hearty boom that usually gets noticed at a public range.

 

[ShadowMan]

Mosin-Nagant: Makes the Earth tremble and two guys in Bavaria look at each other and ask "vat da hell vas dat?!"



AR15: Looks like a toy

AK47: Looks cobbled together from spare parts

Mosin-Nagant: Looks like a Kentucky Musket of DOOM!



AR15: Sworn at by three generations of American soldiers and Marines

AK47: Brought back as a proof of kill by Carlos Hathcock

Mosin-Nagant: Carried by Samo Hayho, Vasili Ziatsev and feared on both sides of the battle line in the hands of snipers.



AR15: Flash suppressed, super stealthy

AK47: Why worry about stealth when you and your comrades can pour a wall of lead onto the enemy?

Mosin-Nagant: Blinds anybody within 150 meters who's not wearing welding goggles.



AR15: Can use the bayonet to whittle

AK47: Can use the bayonet to kill an enemy or butcher food

Mosin-Nagant: Bayonet used to cut the sheet metal parts they use to make AR's and AK's



AR15: Underslung grenade launcher can take out a dug-in enemy at 300 meters

AK47: Underslung grenade launcher makes a lot of noise and a huge dirt crater

Mosin-Nagant: Who needs grenades when your bullets are so big they can kill tanks?



AR15: Inspired by science fiction

AK47: Inspired by a need for a reliable, selectable-fire weapon

Mosin-Nagant: Inspired by men with balls. Men with HUGE, HAIRY BALLS



AR15: Comprised of several hundred moving parts, usually falls victim to Murphy's law

AK47: Comprised of as few moving parts as possible, almost impossible to break unless something goes REALLY REALLY WRONG (which might IMPROVE the accuracy)

Mosin-Nagant: Has only one moving part, is held together by only two screws, and damned well outshoots both of the above.



AR15: Rust is your mortal enemy; you clean your gun five times a day.

AK47: Rust might become a problem in a few years; you clean your gun once a month.

Mosin-Nagant: Rust makes your rifle look more authentic.



AR15: You clean your rifle with molecularly engineered precision $1000-ounce synthetic lubricant

AK47: WD-40 is acceptable

Mosin-Nagant: If everything else runs out you can clean your rifle with your own piss



With regard to sound volume:

AR15: Suitable for use with a sound suppressor because its tiny bullet is already quiet.

AK47: No need for a sound suppressor because the enemy will be flat on the ground with their hands over their ears, hiding from the sheer volume of fire.

Mosin-Nagant: You don't need a sound suppressor, because after the first shot the enemy will be totally deaf anyway.



How long does it take to learn to care for your rifle?

AR15: It will take a drill sergeant about a week to teach you what you need to know about how to disassemble, reassemble and maintain your rifle.

AK47: A good gunnery sergeant can teach you how to care for one in about 4 hours.

Mosin-Nagant: You can learn how to take it apart and put it back together in about 15 minutes with the manual and a couple of YouTube videos in front of you.



AR15: Must be carefully cleaned every 100 rounds or so.

AK47: Only have to worry about cleaning if using Wolf ammo

Mosin-Nagant: Cleaning? Consists of getting liquored up on vodka and peeing down the barrel to get rid of corrosive salts from milsurp primers.



AR15: Opened by pushing 2 pins

AK47: Opened with a swift kick

Mosin-Nagant: Opened with a 2X4 and a ball peen hammer



AR15: Mostly made out of expensive polymers

AK47: Mostly made out of cheap stamped metal and particle board

Mosin-Nagant: Mostly made out of "whatever the f*ck the comrades could find lying around the People's Factory"



AR15: can probably put together a nice one, due to the popularity of ownership, for under $1,000

AK47: Can probably get a decent one, or refurbished one, for under $500.

Mosin-Nagant: Can probably buy rifle, 440 rounds of ammo, and a case of Windex for under $200.



AR15: Won't work unless you clean it every day

AK47: Should be cleaned at least once a year

Mosin-Nagant: Was last cleaned by a Russian conscript in Berlin in 1945



AR15: If the firing pin breaks you send it to the factory for repairs

AK47: If the firing pin breaks you buy a new one

Mosin-Nagant: If the firing pin breaks you just screw it deeper into the bolt



AR15: Your accessories cost more than the rifle

AK47: All your accessories cost around $300

Mosin-Nagant: All your accessories come free with the rifle



AR15: Accountant's Rifle

AK47: Factory Worker's Rifle

Mosin-Nagant: If you can fill out an application, you can probably already afford it



AR15: Tax return will get it

AK47: Tax return will get you 2 plus mags

Mosin-Nagant: Tax Return will get you a case plus enough ammo to last you till doomsday



AR15: Made when jet passenger flight was fairly regular

AK47: Made when knowing how to fly could make you an officer

Mosin-Nagant: Made when hot air balloons were considered the ultimate flight technology



AR15: Buttstock is collapsible, only used to aid in shooting the rifle

AK47: Buttstock is also good for knocking some oppressor's teeth out

Mosin-Nagant: Buttstock is good for use as a sledgehammer, crutch, club, or boat oar

 

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BC-15 | .350 Legend Rifle | 18" Parkerized Heavy Barrel | 1:16 Twist | Carbine Length Gas System | 15" MLOK | Forged | No Magazine

<p>This Bear Creek Arsenal AR-15 .350 Legend Complete rifle has a 18" heavy barrel with a parkerized finish, and features a 1:16 twist, with a carbine length gas system. This .350 Legend AR-15 also includes the new 15" MLOK rail, a forged upper rece

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I've got a Bear Creek upper in .350 legend, love it for white tail. Very comparable to 30-30 win in my opinion, not much use beyond 200 yds but very light recoil and accurate.