The RPK Blues.
I'm not even up to writing a song about it. You do it.
The school teacher has driven me crazy. HK's, Valmets, FN's..AR's....High Standards...
I was researching the RPK when he came over. He sorta wants one too.
But what good is it?
Well, in the standard Soviet Short I suppose you could command one city block. You'd get a little further out there with the 74 ammo..but both that and the .223 leave me a little cold. I couldn't even take over Zortman with an RPK. Pretty pathetic, really.
First of all, try finding one. Oh, there's a 400 dollar Romanian around....an AK with a long barrel...and there's a Yugoslavian around for 650... reciever unknown but I suspect just an AK .
The RPK reciever is thicker at vital areas. It was Russia's light machine gun. I heard people hated carrying it because it weighed a lot, and you got shot at a lot if you had one....
Supposedly, new Russian RPK AK's (Vepr's) are coming...both to a place called Atlantic arms and hopefully to Robinson ARms. What they'll want for these is anyone's guess. I checked the specs on Robinson's standard 20ish length barrel Vepr AK (with RPK reciever) NINE pounds. I don't know about you, but the thought of a NINE pound AK seems ridiculous to me unless it's set up as a RPK. They also carry a sporter 308 Vepr which seems pretty good- looks like a Valmet. It'a only 8.5 lbs. Trouble is, the mags are 5 and 10 count right now...
The Expeditionary rifle seems a little lost in the lower 48: Do we have any land mass left to launch an 'expedition"? Maybe they mean to retake the inner cities in 2020 AD.
The very first time I opened up an AK action I saw baling wire inside and assumed the factory had packed down the bolt. I even put a screwdriver on the wire in an attempt to loosen it. Then I realized that was no packing wire; THAT WAS THE AK.
All desire for a Valmet dropped out of my beating breast. And that goes for Galil too.
For a number of years the Daewoo was considered a great weapon, a kind of hybrid AR18, with AK piston. But no one bought it. It dropped out of sight in America. From what I can tell, Robinson makes the Expeditionary rifle and their new X Whatever rifle from a kind of AK pistion action ala Daewoo- but the details are not mine. Actions are known. There aren't many new ones. That's just what they appear to be is all.
It's been a long time since I had the firearms blues, the RPK Blues.
It'll pass. Spectre just posted the link from Keltec to their new .308 and it does look good; though I think i'd pass on the 32" barrel.... It takes FN mags and they are plentiful. If it's priced right they'll sell a lot. Because when you start getting into 700 bucks for a exotic AK, you might as well shoot a decent .308 bullet chucker.
I have a mongel NHM AK, and a great milled reciever Norinco Hunter with the polytech stamp. I have a M1A. I've sold too many Garands, AR's, Mini 14's, SKS's and even a little M1Carbine to complain I've been underrepresented, or unarmed. And I don't really believe anymore that 'just one more gun' will change life at all.
Still, an RPK could control my backyard, couldn't it??
Did I mention I don't have 200 dollars, let alone 700??
Well, it never hurts to dream a little.
We'll all be clattering around with this stuff and some bureacrat will push a button and kill us all anyway.
munk
I'm not even up to writing a song about it. You do it.
The school teacher has driven me crazy. HK's, Valmets, FN's..AR's....High Standards...
I was researching the RPK when he came over. He sorta wants one too.
But what good is it?
Well, in the standard Soviet Short I suppose you could command one city block. You'd get a little further out there with the 74 ammo..but both that and the .223 leave me a little cold. I couldn't even take over Zortman with an RPK. Pretty pathetic, really.
First of all, try finding one. Oh, there's a 400 dollar Romanian around....an AK with a long barrel...and there's a Yugoslavian around for 650... reciever unknown but I suspect just an AK .
The RPK reciever is thicker at vital areas. It was Russia's light machine gun. I heard people hated carrying it because it weighed a lot, and you got shot at a lot if you had one....
Supposedly, new Russian RPK AK's (Vepr's) are coming...both to a place called Atlantic arms and hopefully to Robinson ARms. What they'll want for these is anyone's guess. I checked the specs on Robinson's standard 20ish length barrel Vepr AK (with RPK reciever) NINE pounds. I don't know about you, but the thought of a NINE pound AK seems ridiculous to me unless it's set up as a RPK. They also carry a sporter 308 Vepr which seems pretty good- looks like a Valmet. It'a only 8.5 lbs. Trouble is, the mags are 5 and 10 count right now...
The Expeditionary rifle seems a little lost in the lower 48: Do we have any land mass left to launch an 'expedition"? Maybe they mean to retake the inner cities in 2020 AD.
The very first time I opened up an AK action I saw baling wire inside and assumed the factory had packed down the bolt. I even put a screwdriver on the wire in an attempt to loosen it. Then I realized that was no packing wire; THAT WAS THE AK.
All desire for a Valmet dropped out of my beating breast. And that goes for Galil too.
For a number of years the Daewoo was considered a great weapon, a kind of hybrid AR18, with AK piston. But no one bought it. It dropped out of sight in America. From what I can tell, Robinson makes the Expeditionary rifle and their new X Whatever rifle from a kind of AK pistion action ala Daewoo- but the details are not mine. Actions are known. There aren't many new ones. That's just what they appear to be is all.
It's been a long time since I had the firearms blues, the RPK Blues.
It'll pass. Spectre just posted the link from Keltec to their new .308 and it does look good; though I think i'd pass on the 32" barrel.... It takes FN mags and they are plentiful. If it's priced right they'll sell a lot. Because when you start getting into 700 bucks for a exotic AK, you might as well shoot a decent .308 bullet chucker.
I have a mongel NHM AK, and a great milled reciever Norinco Hunter with the polytech stamp. I have a M1A. I've sold too many Garands, AR's, Mini 14's, SKS's and even a little M1Carbine to complain I've been underrepresented, or unarmed. And I don't really believe anymore that 'just one more gun' will change life at all.
Still, an RPK could control my backyard, couldn't it??
Did I mention I don't have 200 dollars, let alone 700??
Well, it never hurts to dream a little.
We'll all be clattering around with this stuff and some bureacrat will push a button and kill us all anyway.
munk
