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I was having an email correspondence with a friend of mine about AK's. How AK's have been able to level the playing field for so many that otherwise could never have afforded an effective combat rifle in some of the dirtiest, poorest places on earth. (LOL! I guess that includes me! Dirty and poor!) No matter how hammered, wired or duct taped together an AK always fires. And how that simplicity has allowed it to be made cheaply, repaired cheaply and simply, and fired in ways not even imagined with other rifles.
And how cool it would be to have a contest, way out in the desert (or some other middle of nowhere place), with a vice rest and string trigger pull system, behind bullet proof glass - to find the most f'd up AK to ever fire! And the best AK to fire under the most adverse circumstances. It could be like a contest every year to see who could build the most handmade funky AK ever and still have it fire. And the most solid AK to fire under the strangest circumstances.
Of course someone would end up killing themselves unsafely test firing. But it would be neat to see how messed up you could make an AK and still get it to fire. Cambell soup can receiver cover, leaf spring bolt carrier, dinner utensil sites, stamped receiver out of a car door etc. etc.
Then theirs the foreign object category where you pour sand into an open receiver, gravel in the barrel, running water hose into the action while auto firing, the semi truck drive over and then fire, the list goes on.
You hear all these stories about AK's firing under all these adverse conditions and with strange repair materials. It would be interesting to see how far you could go with it. And see just how hardcore each manufacturers AK really is.
So instead of Burning Man - I propose FUAK 2008!
(Or I guess we could clean it up for the kids.) Anyway show us your entry pics of the strangest repair jobs you've ever seen on an AK. Or the strangest conditions you've ever seen an AK be test fired under.
And how cool it would be to have a contest, way out in the desert (or some other middle of nowhere place), with a vice rest and string trigger pull system, behind bullet proof glass - to find the most f'd up AK to ever fire! And the best AK to fire under the most adverse circumstances. It could be like a contest every year to see who could build the most handmade funky AK ever and still have it fire. And the most solid AK to fire under the strangest circumstances.
Of course someone would end up killing themselves unsafely test firing. But it would be neat to see how messed up you could make an AK and still get it to fire. Cambell soup can receiver cover, leaf spring bolt carrier, dinner utensil sites, stamped receiver out of a car door etc. etc.
Then theirs the foreign object category where you pour sand into an open receiver, gravel in the barrel, running water hose into the action while auto firing, the semi truck drive over and then fire, the list goes on.
You hear all these stories about AK's firing under all these adverse conditions and with strange repair materials. It would be interesting to see how far you could go with it. And see just how hardcore each manufacturers AK really is.
So instead of Burning Man - I propose FUAK 2008!