What is so special about them that makes em to still be in use.Here a ranger in Etiopia has one, in a recent photo from a travel bloger pictureSource https://x.com/1001calatorii/status/1982429606561939946
>>64449431the commies made a billion of them and passed them out like candy. that's it
>>64449437Commies in 1891? Russia was traditional at that time and most if them where bare foot
>>64449431They're not still in use because they're "special", they're still in use because they made a fuckload of them back in the day.
>>64449452the commies produced the substantial majority of nuggets
>>64449431It's a shoulder destroying innacurate piece of shit that used to be $60 or less for a crate of 10
>>64449431>What is so special about them that makes em to still be in use.There were 30,000,000+ made. Post-WW2 the Soviets handed them out to anyone with a bad word to say about Great Britain or the USA. Funny that the ones sent to Ethiopia after the fall of Selassie haven't surfaced in the big Inter-Ordnance/Royal Tiger haul out of Ethiopia so they must still be using them. >Here a ranger in Etiopia has one, in a recent photo from a travel bloger picturePark rangers in any African country get shit weapons because their own government/administration is corrupt and Western support for conservation efforts is too cucked to pay for "lethal" aid. You'll see them get fancy camo, webbing, maybe even radios but they'll have rusty AKs with not even a full magazine of ammunition.
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>>64449452They didnt build a gazillion mosins in 1891, my simpleton. They needed world wars for that
>>64449431They made so many of them that for a while you could get them for like 60 dollars. The ammo was strong enough to drop anything that walks, and cheaper than dirt.Restrictions on the market (Obama, et al) and boomer speculation have driven the price up, but there's always going to be high demand for an extremely cheap full power rifle.
>soviets made a fuckton of them>ammo still widely manufacted and used>they workreally it's the second point that makes them crop up anywhere that people still use the PKM. stuff like the garand and Kar98k would probably still get used if major militaries still made ammo for them.
>>64449452They literally didn't have enough mosins for their soldiers in WW1.
