Stuff you know if you have an AK | Stuff you know if you have an AR | Stuff you know if you have a Mosin Nagant |
It works though you have never cleaned it. Ever. | You have $9 per ounce special non-detergent synthetic Teflon infused oil for cleaning. | It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945. |
You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from inside. | You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600 meters. | You can hit the farm from two counties over. |
Cheap mags are fun to buy. | Cheap mags melt. | What's a mag? |
Your safety can be heard from 300 meters away. | You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger. | What's a safety? |
Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling. | Your rifle has a 9 point stealth tactical suspension system. | You rifle has dog collars. |
Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter. | Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife. | Your bayonet is longer than your leg. |
You can put a .30" hole through 12" of oak, if you can hit it. | You can put one hole in a paper target at 100 meters with 30 rounds. | You can knock down everyone else's target with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange. |
When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club. | When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great wiffle bat. | When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood. |
Recoil is manageable, even fun. | What's recoil? | Recoil is often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the previous shot. |
Your sight adjustment goes to "10", and you've never bothered moving it. | Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of angle. | Your sight adjustment goes to 12 miles and you've actually tried it. |
Your rifle can be used by any two bit nation's most illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide. | Your rifle is used by elite forces worldwide to fight two bit nations' most illiterate conscripts. | Your rifle has fought against itself and won every time. |
Your rifle won some revolutions. | Your rifle won the Cold War. | Your rifle won a pole vault event. |
You paid $350. | You paid $900. | You paid $59.95. |
You buy cheap ammo by the case. | You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds one by one. | You dig your ammo out of a farmer's field in Ukraine and it works just fine. |
You can intimidate your foe with the bayonet mounted. | You foes laugh when you mount your bayonet. | You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river without leaving the comfort of your hole. |
Service life, 50 years. | Service life, 40 years. | Service life, 100 years, and counting. |
It's easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge sizes. | You can change cartridge sizes with the push of a couple of pins and a new upper. | You believe no real man would dare risk the ridicule of his friends by suggesting there is anything but 7.62x54r. |
You can repair your rifle with a big hammer and a swift kick. | You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith, it's under warranty! | If your rifle breaks, you buy a new one. |
You consider it a badge of honor when you get your handguards burst into flames. | You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5 shot group. | You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle 5 rounds without the aid of a 2x4. |
After a long day the range you relax by watching "Red Dawn". | After a long day at the range you relax by watching "Blackhawk Down". | After a long day at the range you relax by visiting the chiropractor. |
After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for a stiff shot of Vodka. | After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for hotdogs and apple pie. | After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for shishkabob. |
You can accessorize you rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice stock set. | Your rifle's accessories are eight times more valuable than your 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. |
Your rifle's finish is varnish and paint. | Your rifle's finish is Teflon and high tech polymers. | Your rifle's finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and Olga's toe nails. |
Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Mikhail Kalashnikov. | Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Eugene Stoner. | You're not sure there WERE cameras to photograph Sergei Mosin. |
Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to hold your rifle over your head and shout "Wolverines!" | Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to clear your house, slicing the pie from room to room. | Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a fighting trench in the the yard to sleep in. |
For extra credit, go look at the shirt
4 comments:
Man, whoever wrote that hates the M16.
And what do I get for the extra credit, Cowboy?
"If your rifle breaks, you buy a new one."
How in God's name does one break a Mosin Nagant rifle short of running over it with a main battle tank?
Gerry N.
I laughed my ass off.
The only thing they forgot was the two-foot flame that can be used to cook your Spam.
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