World War II Weapons still in use

[browningautorifle]

a Chinese built AK

You mean an older steel solid AK, not the later stamped and bent sheet steel receiver?

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[Sentryduty]

You mean an older steel solid AK, not the later stamped and bent sheet steel receiver?

You know I never thought to ask, just looked through my pictures and I do not have any of the milled Chinese AK, they are all the stamped type.

Some AK purist will probably jump on this, but I seem to recall the stamped versions with the dimple near the magazine well are considered an AKM?

Based on that Chinese AKM's were cheaper than the Russian, East German, or other Soviet country produced pieces.

I have only every handled one Chinese milled receiver rifle, it came out of the TMM collections, it was very well made, and had a bullet hole through the buttstock. It was a 1950/60's gun and the accessioning number indicated we got in sometime in the 1990's probably from one of the Balkans tours as it was a fully function FA version, formerly equipped with folding spike bayonet.

[browningautorifle]

Chinese AKM's were cheaper than the Russian, East German, or other Soviet country produced pieces.

Ok, I follow.

I have only every handled one Chinese milled receiver rifle, it came out of the TMM collections,

TMM? I had several in the small arms school collection in Gagetown...some with and some without bayonets. Most were machined body that came from the '74 war in Cyprus.