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They say that after awhile, dogs and dog owners begin to look alike. I believe that you can extend that dictum to firearms owners. Not that we begin to look like our firearms, mind you, but that we begin to have shared experiences with other owners/sufferers of the same weaponry.
For instance, most of us who own a semi-automatic AK know it's legendary for being so loosely constructed it rattles when you pick it up. By the same token, all of us who own an AR-15 (the civilian equivalent of the M-16) know it's so tightly constructed it comes with its own toothbrush to keep dirt and grit from fouling it. (True!) And those of us who own a Mosin/Nagant M1930 (mine has Soviet markings and was issued in 1943) can't believe soldiers actually had to MARCH while carrying this behemoth!!!
I found this list of other common firearms characteristics on the Internet, and reblog it here.
A Comparison of the AK-47, AR-15 and Mosin/Nagant M1930:
AK – It works though you have never cleaned it, ever.
AR – You have $9-per-ounce special non-detergent synthetic Teflon-infused cleaner
MG – It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945
AK – You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from the inside
AR – You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600 meters
MG – You can hit the farm from two counties away
AR – Cheap magazines are fun to buy
AR – Cheap magazines melt
MG – What’s a magazine?
AK – Your safety can be heard as you click it off from 300 meters away
AR – You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger
MG – What’s a safety?
AK – Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling
AR – Your rifle comes with a 9-point stealth tactical suspension system
MG – Your rifle has dog collars (It really does!)
AK – Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter
AR – Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife
MG – Your bayonet is longer than your leg
AK – You can put a .30” hole through 12” of oak
AR – You can put one hole in a paper target with 30 rounds at 100 meters
MG – You can knock down everyone else’s target with the shock wave of your bullet’s passage
AK – When out of ammo, your rifle will substitute as a club
AR – When out of ammo, your rifle will substitute as a wiffle ball bat
MG – When out of ammo, your rifle will make a supreme lance, tent pole, oar, pike or firewood
AK – Recoil is manageable, even fun
AR – What’s recoil?
MG – Recoil is used to reset your shoulder after it was dislocated by the previous shot
AK – Your sight adjustment goes to 10, and you’ve never bothered moving it
AR – Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of a minute of angle
MG – Your sight adjustment goes out to 12 miles, and you’ve actually tried it
AK – Your rifle can be used by any two-bit nation’s illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces everywhere
AR – Your rifle is used by elite forces everywhere to fight two-bit nations’ illiterate conscripts
MG – Your rifle has fought against itself, and won every time
AK – Your rifle won some revolutions
AR – Your rifle drove Saddam out of Kuwait
MG – Your rifle won a pole vault event
AK – You paid $350
AR – You paid $900
MG – You paid $89.95 (I actually did!)
AK – You buy cheap ammo by the case
AR – You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds, one-by-one
MG – You dug your ammo out of a farmer’s field in the Ukraine, and it works just fine
AK – You can intimidate your foe when you fix bayonets
AR – Your foes laugh themselves to death when you fix bayonet
MG – You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river without leaving your foxhole
AK – Service life, 60 years
AR – Service life, 40 years
MG – Service life, 100 years and counting
AK – It’s easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge sizes
AR – You can change cartridge sizes with the push of two pins and a new upper receiver
MG – You would never risk ridicule by suggesting there IS any other cartridge but 7.62mm x 54r
AK – You can repair your rifle with a hammer and a swift kick
AR – You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith (It’s under warranty!)
MG – You either take it to a blacksmith, or buy a new one
AK – You consider it a badge of honor when the rifle handguards burst into flames
AR – You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5-shot group
MG – You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle five rounds without using a 2x4 as a lever
AK – After a long day at the range, you relax by watching “Red Dawn”
AR – After a long day at the range, you relax by watching “Black Hawk Down”
MG – After a long day at the range, you relax with a visit to the chiropractor
AK – You can accessorize your rifle with a muzzle brake or a new stock
AR – You can accessorize your rifle with stuff that is 8 times more expensive than the rifle
MG – Your rifle’s main accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, buried under a building in Kiev
AK – Your rifle’s finish is varnish and paint
AR – Your rifle’s finish is Teflon and high-tech polymers
MG – Your rifle’s finish is low-grade shellac, cosmoline and some woman named Olga’s toenail polish
AK – Your wife tolerates your signed photo of Mikhail Kalashnikov
AR – Your wife tolerates your signed photo of Eugene Stoner
MG – You’re not sure there WERE cameras around to photograph Sergei Mosin
AK – Late at night, you have the urge to hold your rifle over your head and shout “Wolverines!”
AR – Late at night, you have the urge to clear your house, from room-to-room
MG – Late at night, you have the urge to dig a fighting trench in the front yard and sleep in it.
For instance, most of us who own a semi-automatic AK know it's legendary for being so loosely constructed it rattles when you pick it up. By the same token, all of us who own an AR-15 (the civilian equivalent of the M-16) know it's so tightly constructed it comes with its own toothbrush to keep dirt and grit from fouling it. (True!) And those of us who own a Mosin/Nagant M1930 (mine has Soviet markings and was issued in 1943) can't believe soldiers actually had to MARCH while carrying this behemoth!!!
I found this list of other common firearms characteristics on the Internet, and reblog it here.
A Comparison of the AK-47, AR-15 and Mosin/Nagant M1930:
AK – It works though you have never cleaned it, ever.
AR – You have $9-per-ounce special non-detergent synthetic Teflon-infused cleaner
MG – It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945
AK – You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from the inside
AR – You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600 meters
MG – You can hit the farm from two counties away
AR – Cheap magazines are fun to buy
AR – Cheap magazines melt
MG – What’s a magazine?
AK – Your safety can be heard as you click it off from 300 meters away
AR – You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger
MG – What’s a safety?
AK – Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling
AR – Your rifle comes with a 9-point stealth tactical suspension system
MG – Your rifle has dog collars (It really does!)
AK – Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter
AR – Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife
MG – Your bayonet is longer than your leg
AK – You can put a .30” hole through 12” of oak
AR – You can put one hole in a paper target with 30 rounds at 100 meters
MG – You can knock down everyone else’s target with the shock wave of your bullet’s passage
AK – When out of ammo, your rifle will substitute as a club
AR – When out of ammo, your rifle will substitute as a wiffle ball bat
MG – When out of ammo, your rifle will make a supreme lance, tent pole, oar, pike or firewood
AK – Recoil is manageable, even fun
AR – What’s recoil?
MG – Recoil is used to reset your shoulder after it was dislocated by the previous shot
AK – Your sight adjustment goes to 10, and you’ve never bothered moving it
AR – Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of a minute of angle
MG – Your sight adjustment goes out to 12 miles, and you’ve actually tried it
AK – Your rifle can be used by any two-bit nation’s illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces everywhere
AR – Your rifle is used by elite forces everywhere to fight two-bit nations’ illiterate conscripts
MG – Your rifle has fought against itself, and won every time
AK – Your rifle won some revolutions
AR – Your rifle drove Saddam out of Kuwait
MG – Your rifle won a pole vault event
AK – You paid $350
AR – You paid $900
MG – You paid $89.95 (I actually did!)
AK – You buy cheap ammo by the case
AR – You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds, one-by-one
MG – You dug your ammo out of a farmer’s field in the Ukraine, and it works just fine
AK – You can intimidate your foe when you fix bayonets
AR – Your foes laugh themselves to death when you fix bayonet
MG – You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river without leaving your foxhole
AK – Service life, 60 years
AR – Service life, 40 years
MG – Service life, 100 years and counting
AK – It’s easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge sizes
AR – You can change cartridge sizes with the push of two pins and a new upper receiver
MG – You would never risk ridicule by suggesting there IS any other cartridge but 7.62mm x 54r
AK – You can repair your rifle with a hammer and a swift kick
AR – You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith (It’s under warranty!)
MG – You either take it to a blacksmith, or buy a new one
AK – You consider it a badge of honor when the rifle handguards burst into flames
AR – You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5-shot group
MG – You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle five rounds without using a 2x4 as a lever
AK – After a long day at the range, you relax by watching “Red Dawn”
AR – After a long day at the range, you relax by watching “Black Hawk Down”
MG – After a long day at the range, you relax with a visit to the chiropractor
AK – You can accessorize your rifle with a muzzle brake or a new stock
AR – You can accessorize your rifle with stuff that is 8 times more expensive than the rifle
MG – Your rifle’s main accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, buried under a building in Kiev
AK – Your rifle’s finish is varnish and paint
AR – Your rifle’s finish is Teflon and high-tech polymers
MG – Your rifle’s finish is low-grade shellac, cosmoline and some woman named Olga’s toenail polish
AK – Your wife tolerates your signed photo of Mikhail Kalashnikov
AR – Your wife tolerates your signed photo of Eugene Stoner
MG – You’re not sure there WERE cameras around to photograph Sergei Mosin
AK – Late at night, you have the urge to hold your rifle over your head and shout “Wolverines!”
AR – Late at night, you have the urge to clear your house, from room-to-room
MG – Late at night, you have the urge to dig a fighting trench in the front yard and sleep in it.
Good stuff!
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