Great Tips for Reloading and Clearance Drills. Keep an eye on your Recoil Spring, if you keep having feed malfunctions, replace ASAP. Additional Resources: The Iraqi Reload Shooting from Behind Cover w/Transitions
Category: Rifle Corner
AK Corner: Is the PKM the Best Light Machine Gun Ever?
PKM: Is This the Best Light Machine Gun Ever? Key point: PKMs still arm many western-aligned nations as well. Mikhail Kalashnikov is known for creating the AK rifle, but his contributions to Soviet firearms design didn’t end there. In 1961 he designed the PK machine gun, which was modernized into the PKM in 1969….
Bomb Proof Dots: The Burris FastFire
Bomb Proof Dots: The Burris FastFire Although I have never run the Fastfire on a pistol, I do run a Gen 2 and 3 (mounted on a Ultimak) on both of my go-to AK’s and they both perform as well now as when I installed them sixteen years ago. Furthermore, even after balls to…
AK Corner: The History of Yugo AK’s (5 Part Series)
Zastava M64. Part 1. The Unusual History of Yugoslavian AKs Zastava AKs, Part 2. M70 – The First Mass-Produced Yugoslavian Kalashnikov Yugo AKs, Part 3. M70B1, the Workhorse from the Balkans Yugoslav AKs, Part 4. Collapse of Yugoslavia Serbian AKs, Part 5: Rising from the Ashes
Reconsidering the Designated Marksman
Reconsidering the Designated Marksman The role of the designated marksman, or DM, has been around since firearms came into battle. Out of every formation, someone always rises to the top when it comes to shooting prowess. The difference between this individual and a sniper is that the DM is part of the squad, not…
Obscure Rifles: Mondragón Rifle – The First Semi-Auto Combat Rifle
Mondragón rifle – The First Semi-Auto Combat Rifle The M1 Garand gets credit for being the first successful semi-auto combat rifle. That’s only partially true. Sure, the M1 Garand was widely successful, but General Manuel Mondragón, a Mexican General and Arms designer, beat Garand by about 30 years. Mexico adopted the Mondragón Model 1908 in 1904,…
AK Corner: AK’s from Finland
AKs from Finland. Part 1: Development History The small European country of Finland always had a great reputation when it comes to arms production. For collectors, Finnish-made Mosin-Nagants are some of the most desirable Mosin rifles, but there is another rifle design that the Finnish took to a whole other level. It is called RK…
AK Corner: Story of the RPK-74
Story of the RPK-74 The 5.45x39mm RPK-74 was an evolutionary development of Mikhail Kalashnikov’s original 1940’s-vintage AK-47. The earliest AK (Avtomat Kalashnikova) rifle fired the then radically new M43 7.62x39mm round and was built around a stamped steel receiver. This 35″, 7.7-lb. infantry rifle legitimately changed the world. Alas, those early stamped receivers weren’t…
AK Corner: Decorating Tips
AK Corner: ‘Yugo-Calibur’
Only those Few and Proud Yugo M70AB2 UF Owners will get this 😂