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Pictures of Bulgarian Kalashnikov's Around the World

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#1 ·
Post 'em if ya got 'em!

:cool:
 
#28 ·
Once again, you have to look close, but they ARE Bulgarian milled AK's.

(If you open the photo in Photoshop and zoom in, it becomes obvious). :grin:

You almost think the rifle in the foreground is a Yugo receiver, but it's a trick of the light bouncing off the charging handle.

Sure shows some variation in optics mounting methods, eh?



Close up:



Guarding a street corner?

 
#35 ·
Templar said:
Alot of those earlier Type 3's getting black synthetic stocks put on them and seeing use.
Aren't they all new production Bulgarian contract rifles? I understood that there was a mixture of AK's made with the 45-degree gas block and the 90-degree gas block. IIRC that was the reason the parts to make SA M7 Classics dried up.

I've seen photos of the 45-degree gas block rifles looking "like new".
 
#36 ·
I'm sure that they are "new" old stock, that have been laying around after the Cold War ended. I was told that most of the parts for the earlier Type 3 style rifles haven't actually been in production since the very late 80's, and that they were building rifles on stocks of parts that had been stockpiled.

No reason to throw away perfectly good rifle parts if you can build them up and get a contract from Uncle Sugar..... :twisted:
 
#38 ·






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Look at the stock on this rifle...a Type 2 modified to take a polymer stock?

Bulgarian? Or simply Russian Type 2 with a polymer stock?

Did the Bulgarians make a Type 2?

Somebody explain this one:

 
#39 ·
Re: [b]Iraqi AK's[/b]

Templar said:
Arsenal Bulgaria received several contracts to rearm the Iraqi National Guard (ING). Many of the AK's in Iraq were destroyed because the cost to overhaul them was prohibitive and the feeling was that one specific type of AK would be better vs. the hodge podge that existed previously.
:doh:
Like they couldn't have made parts kits out of them and sold them here.
Even if they were beat to shit, the fact that they were Iraqi would have commanded a premium.
There were a shit pot load of Enfields, Mausers, and others that were burnt.
Such a waste.
:frustration:
 
#47 ·
Templar said:
Interesting use of the rear sling mount, looks like they're using them as single point slings, which while not so hot for extended carrying, are great for urban use.

One of the troopers is using a type of carry that a sheriff's deputy taught me. Great for "port arms" style patroling because you can quickly get the rifle into action, but the weapon does dangle in your way at times. (I'm referencing the trooper in the very rear of the RPG capture photo).
 
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