+1 for making this a sticky... as always thanks for sharing ptica...always look forward to your post.zb-30 said:This needs a sticky!!
Take a look at #31, that looks pretty darn close to a North Korean type 68. Perhaps the Russians gave the Koreans a bunch of these prototypes and they just copied them.
I doubt it. In fact, it doesn't really look all that much like a 68, at least no more than a regular Sov AKM. The Type 68 is basically a hybrid of a Soviet AKM with a AK-47 with some other Euro, Chinese, and local North Korean characteristics.zb-30 said:This needs a sticky!!
Take a look at #31, that looks pretty darn close to a North Korean type 68. Perhaps the Russians gave the Koreans a bunch of these prototypes and they just copied them.
I dunno, look at the bayonet, gas block and rear sling attachment.I doubt it. In fact, it doesn't really look all that much like a 68, at least no more than a regular Sov AKM. The Type 68 is basically a hybrid of a Soviet AKM with a AK-47 with some other Euro, Chinese, and local North Korean characteristics.
It does have some striking similarities to a Type 68. Anything is possible and we'll probably never know how/why the North Koreans went with the design that they did but this adds some credence to the argument that the Russian prototype may have had an influencing factor.Take a look at #31, that looks pretty darn close to a North Korean type 68. Perhaps the Russians gave the Koreans a bunch of these prototypes and they just copied them.
Yeah, but why would the Sovs give their North Korean friends a basically defunct prototype instead of the AKM?zb-30 said:I dunno, look at the bayonet, gas block and rear sling attachment.I doubt it. In fact, it doesn't really look all that much like a 68, at least no more than a regular Sov AKM. The Type 68 is basically a hybrid of a Soviet AKM with a AK-47 with some other Euro, Chinese, and local North Korean characteristics.
That looks very similar to a North Korean type 68.
Don't be too quick to give a coverall "perfection" to the catalog. Look at #111, the North Korean Type 58. It's got an AKM top cover on it. But the catalog is a great reference and it's awesome to have scanned copies of it here.WOW! Im definately wanting to learn more of the Cuban Rifles. Does anyone notice anything differentt on it??
Too bad they didnt take a pic of the trunion marks on that rifle.
And you KNOW its authentic if it was printed in that book. All else is authentic, it has to be.