Just going back over this thread and saw there's a few points I'd like to add.
I agree with CDAT, abuse any AK too much and it's gonna be screwed. I've seen some behaviour in the Middle East that almost made me cry. For instance, one time in Egypt I saw some Tourism & Antiquities police officers attempting to catch water runoff during a rainy day with the slanted part of the muzzle brake on their AKM's. They were having a great time, laughing about who could catch more water and so on. Never saw them clean it out afterwards but I really, really hoped that they did and that I just didn't see them do it... but who really knows? These guys were plain clothes so they weren't the typical, poorly educated farmboys who get conscripted into the lower echelons of the police.
For as much as the PK is a solid performer there is one thing I just can't get used to. Even the non-disintegrating belt I can live with but I just can't get used to it's righthand feed. I've trained on various Western MGs dating from the 1940s up to the 1990s and all of them were standard with lefthand feed, the PK's righthand feed is just too alien for me!
Draq, I hear ya loud & clear but I started this topic as a companion to the fav US weapons thread cos we were obviously limited to just one nations smallarms and, like you, I'm interested in smallarms from everywhere.
I too like the SKS but it's not my favourite and I agree too that the MP412 AKA REX-412 is particularly interesting, I'd like one out of curiosity value if nothing else!
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