Clint Smith Photos: Heidi Smith
These commentaries are by a for-
mer Special Forces S/Sgt., who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan: “While in the Army for 10 years,
being stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq it was impossible not to have some exposure to AK-47 rifl es. Indig- enous troops, the enemy combatants and even US Army troops had daily dealings with them. “Quality of the AK rifl es I was
exposed to varied a great deal from location to location. The best AK-47 I found was in a cache in Iraq. The Russian-made milled receiver was stamped 1968 and it was still packed in original grease. The rifl e functioned
great in the semi-automatic mode and ran like a sowing machine on full- auto as well. Accuracy wise, it was hard to hit a man-size target beyond 100 yards and while fi ring it, the best hit ratio I could get out of it was one out of fi ve rounds on target at 300 yards from a rest. “The worst AK I found was in
Afghanistan. Some members of my outfi t where digging holes and while working one of us hit something hard with a shovel tip. After a bit more shovel work, the men uncovered six AK-47s and two RPG tubes, most likely a cache left from the last war with the Russians. These rifl es had
seen much better days. One of them was Chinese made with a stamped receiver and missing its buttstock; the outside was badly pitted and the bolt was rusted shut. After a three day soaking in diesel fuel, the gun worked well enough to fi re two magazines downrange without destroying itself. A pretty solid testimonial to the rug- ged AK design.”
The AK Today If you want an AK in America and
you want the best rifl e you can get, then hands down Marc Krebs is the King of the American AK market- place. Krebs’ updates bring the AK
Krebs AKs along side a standard model AK.
The “best” AK? The well-made Krebs is the best of the breed.
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