Posted on 02/12/2013 8:34:58 AM PST by demshateGod
It's about time I buy a scary rifle. I've been looking at prices on the local classified and Gun Broker and started thinking an AK-74 would give me the most for my money. I'm interested in hearing from those of you who are much smarter and informed.
5.45x39 is a good round and it's cheap, but will this always be the case? Will I even be able to get it 10 years from now?
I'm doing all I can to avoid paying panic prices but if I don't buy one soon, the money I've set aside for it will end up being used for other things.
Then go with the AK, designed to withstand the loving care of a soviet peasant and still fire every time. A bonus is that you won’t feel bad blasting through cheap steel case ammo at the range. Just watch out for milsurp ammo with corrosive powerder.
+1
I had some people getting all excited about Magpul finally announcing a case for the iPhone 5.
I threw water all over that party by asking if they really thought Magpul would be wasting any injection molding capacity on anything but mags and gun parts anytime soon.
I would offer advice on the subject of being a gun owner if I had any left after that freak avalanche event.
Very Cool ! Thanks, never heard of them before Thanks for posting
Get an AK-47 with a milled receiver or an SKS that can use AK-47 magazines.
“Lots of kids around here buy .22s and pimp ‘em up. They seem to have bought all the LRs.”
Granted, it’s not actually an “AR”, but the S&W M&P-15/22 is a great-looking and performing 22L with the “look and feel” of its big brother...
The AR is the American Militia rile today. The government uses the same ammo and magazines.
Every guard armory in the country has parts and rifles and magazines and ammo for them.
Half the cop cars in America have an AR and ammo in the trunk or shotgun rack.
Every ammunition maker is pumping out all of the 5.56 it can because virtually all of it is sold when it hits the shelf.
Eventually, everybody that can will have an AR, magazines, and ammo for their rifles. Eventually, is coming up pretty fast.
If you do not have an AR that shoots 5.56, and you get an AK74 that shoots Russian ammo, you may find yourself with an expensive club. Foreign ammo will most likely be banned by executive order tonight.
Most American ammunition manufacturers are not going to devote a lot of attention to Russian calibers like 7.62x54, and 5.45x39. 7.62x39 may have been around long enough for them to put a few boxes in every store, but at premium prices.
An AR just makes sense today at this time.
If he bases his plans on 9 mm, may I suggest eventually adding a Kel-Tek Sub 2000. It is available to match the Glock magazine if that is in the inventory.
Not a high-accuracy weapon, but has a unique way to store small and quickly put in use.
It is on my list, but not yet in my inventory. They are very hard to find these days without overpaying.
Dang! Mr. Chesnokov really cuts right to the point, doesn’t he?
I currently own 2 Ar’s but my next purchase will be an AK. But not until the panic dies down.
“Foreign ammo will most likely be banned by executive order tonight.”
I had heard that before. What could the possible rational be for banning ammo made overseas? It is sold here by a distributor. AFAIK it is not sold direct to the public. Most of my stash is Russian made. Steel case, cause it’s cheaper and I don’t reload. And it functions fine in my weapon.
Consider a Bulgarian AK in 5.56 if ammo is your chief concern.
Bump....
If it were just a question of imported vs. domestic rifle, I'd probably agree. The potential near-term problem is in continued availability of ammo for the AK, very little of which is made commercially here in North America. BATF regulates the importation of all firearms and ammunition into the U.S.; it would be easy to cut off that supply.
I'm sure that the media already has a plan to describe it as "the ammunition used by terrorists worldwide", or some such. And that will be that, until some wily American re-names it the ".311 FUBO" (or some similar name), and begins producing it again (see: .275 Rigby).
Who knows... we might even see smugglers' submarines operating on the Great Lakes!
Getting a bill through Congress to shut down domestic manufacture of .223 Remington (a "sporting" cartridge...) would be much more difficult.
Yes, that 15-22 is a fun, accurate rifle, and the ammo is cheap, too (tho not so cheap, at the moment).
What year are you living in?
You can still get these on gunbroker.com for a reasonable value, maybe only a $100-$200 premium over the insanely over-priced Romanian WASR garbage that people are going nuts for. Last I checked, RRC firearms website had them too. VEPR’s are familiar to the more knowledgeable AK aficionados, not so much the folks who don’t do their research and instead just buy the thing that looks the most like the guns they saw the bad guys using in “Blackhawk Down.”
Even brand new, a lot of these more common AK’s have worn spots on the metal finish, and the wood looks like something someone took off an old piece of IKEA furniture.
VEPRs, in contrast, have finishes that look like western-made guns, and the wood is gorgeous.
He’s full of vodka and BS like most russians. Kalishnakov was never a weapon designer. He was a plumber that completely ripped off the design of the German Sturmgewehr 44.
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