Za Rodinu, Za Stalina!
For the Motherland, For Stalin!
| THINGS YOU KNOW IF YOU OWN A ... | ||
| AK-47 | AR15 / M16 | Mosin-Nagant |
| It works even though you seldom clean it. | It works as long as you buy the $9/ounce special non-detergent synthetic teflon infused oil. | It was last cleaned before entering Berlin in 1945. |
| You can hit the broad side of a barn from inside. | You can hit the broad side of a barn from 600 meters. | You can hit the farm from the adjacent county. |
| Cheap magazines are readily available. | Cheap magazines melt. | What is magazine? |
| Your safety is a broad lever audible 300 meters away. | You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger. | What is safety? |
| Your rifle came with a cheap nylon sling. | Your rifle now has a 9-point stealth tactical suspension system. | Your rifle came with two dog collars and a leash. |
| Your rifle's finish is varnish and paint. | Your rifle's finish is teflon and polymers. | Your rifle's finish is low-grade shellac, cosmoline, and Soviet toenail polish. |
| Your bayonet makes a pretty good wire cutter. | Your bayonet makes a pretty good steak knife. | Your bayonet is as long as your leg. |
| You can mount your bayonet and intimidate your foe. | You can mount your bayonet and make your foe laugh. | You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river without leaving your hole. |
| Recoil is manageable. | What is recoil? | Recoil is often used to relocate a shoulder dislocated by the previous round. |
| Your sight adjustment goes to an uncalibrated "10", but you have never bothered changing it. | Your sight adjustment is calibrated in fractions of minute of angle. | Your sight adjustment goes to 1200 arshins, and you've actually tried it. |
| Your rifle is used by two-bit nations' illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide. | Your rifle is used by elite forces to fight two-bit nations' illiterate conscripts worldwide. | Your rifle has fought against itself and it won every time. |
| You paid $350. | You paid $900. | You paid $59.95. |
| If your rifle breaks, you can repair it with a hammer. | If your rifle breaks, you can take your rifle to a certified AR15/M16 gunsmith, if it is still under warranty. | If your rifle breaks, it is cheapest and easiest to just buy a new one. |
| You buy cheap Yugoslav ammunition by the case. | You carefully reload precision crafted rounds one at a time. | You dig your ammunition out of a Ukrainian farm field and it works just fine. |
| You can change between 7.62 mm and 5.54 mm, most easily by buying a second rifle. | You can change cartridge sizes by pushing a couple of pins and installing a new upper receiver. | You know that no real man would suggest that there is anything other than 7.62x54R. |
| Favorite movie: Red Dawn | Favorite movie: Black Hawk Down | Favorite movie: Enemy at the Gates |
| You could accessorize your rifle with a new muzzle brake or a modified stock. However, Ivan Chesnokov will tell you that you should not. | Your rifle's accessories are more expensive than your already expensive rifle. | Your rifle's accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid. But it's buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest. |
| You would really like to have an autographed photo of Mikhail Kalashnikov. | You would really like to have an autographed photo of Eugene Stoner. | You're uncertain if there were cameras when Sergei Mosin was alive. |
| Service life: 65 years. | Service life: 49 years. | Service life: 121 years, so far. |
Za Rodinu, Za Stalina!
For the Motherland, For Stalin!
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