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Pictures of Bulgarian Kalashnikov's Around the World

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#1 ·
Post 'em if ya got 'em!

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#52 ·
More patrolling.
You see the Iraqis are evidently taught to keep the index finger of the trigger hand on the selector.
I always learned to use the middle finger because it's a longer finger and you have more "reach."





Here you see evidence of that "single point sling" again: front swivel apparently not used at all since you can't see the sling, and the rear swivel used for both ends of the sling.

 
#59 ·
Guard duty. This rifle is missing the buttstock entirely.



Patrol in the city streets.






Raid on an insurgent house in Baghdad. These guys are providing perimeter security.

Check out those camo'ed Bulgarian AK's !



One with a grenade launcher:



One with the standard muzzle nut:

 
#62 ·
Training at Kirkush Military Base under Australian supervision.

The photos are kind of grainy, but I zoomed in on them in Photoshop, and they DO appear to be milled Bulgarian rifles. The lower handguards are obviously the polymer ribbed type characteristic of Bulgarian AK's, for one thing.









 
#64 ·
NOTE TO EVERYONE:

Every once in a while, I do a search on Google or something to find more pics. What's surprising is that if I find some pics, I can do an identical search a week later and these same pics are GONE!

I HOPE that the moderators or some of you other viewers out there are downloading these pics to your computers. If my Photobucket account ever goes belly up, a lot of these pics are gone forever!

For example: the pic showing the Iraqis cleaning their weapons is one that I saw exactly ONE time. Had I not downloaded it then, I probably would not be able to find it now.
 
#67 ·
Take a look at this photo again...

Something just occurred to me: doesn't it look like the soldier on the right is using part of the gas tube to move the lower handguard lever forward (or back)?

Anybody ever done this? What part of the gas tube do you use?



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#73 ·


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Check out the buttstock on this rifle.

It appears to have been wrapped in black tape or plastic material, which covers some of the contours.




Patrolling, with the usual "close up" enhanced in Photoshop.





This is an interesting photo.
It appears to be the same Iraqi National Guardsman as on page one of this thread holding a Bulgarian AK with a 90-degree gas block .



The original (from page one):

 
#74 ·
An Iraqi National Guard (ING) soldier, 404th Battalion (BN), 50th ING Brigade, crouches during a joint patrol by ING and US Marine Corps (USMC) Company A (Alpha Co.), Battalion (BN) Landing Team, 1st BN, 4th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC), forces of a palm tree grove looking to sweep it clear of potential enemy mortar sites during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (Released to Public)

 
#75 ·




Rarely do you see downfolder AK's:

















EDIT: I corrected the yellow tint to these two.



Is that a slant brake on this rifle? You don't see one very often on the Bulgarian weapons.






I forget...is that muzzle device a flash hider or sound suppressor?







EDIT: I corrected the yellow tint to these also.


 
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