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Originally Posted by swaghauler
We had a "confiscated" AK-47 (type 2 no less) that had all of its bluing replaced by rust in Somalia. The bolt rusted shut and we'd just kick it open with the heel of our boot; load a mag and fire it off. It NEVER failed to work. We used motor oil for lubricant on it and would mag dump it until the hand guards smoked. It wasn't very accurate (it had been around since 1951 and who knows how much of that in Africa) and was heavy as h**l; but it shot flawlessly. We had to turn it over to Battalion after about 2 weeks with it. There was talk about NOT telling command about it, but we did the right thing. I really liked that AK's reliability. It was slightly better than my A2 and at least an order of magnitude better than an A1.
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I had several Glock 17's and Ak-47 that I got to work on for the Iraqi's Police. In the six months to a year that they had them, they no longer would work, you could not get the bolt on the AK's to open no matter what you hit them with, with or without lubricant and the pistols they had destroyed the barrels. It was due to a total lack of maintenance and using bad ammo.