good afternoon guys today we're going to be going over the ak-47 going to talk a
little bit about the history of it the characteristics some pros and cons why
it's good why it's bad so the ak-47 was designed by a guy named
Mikhail Kalashnikov way back in early 1940s it was adopted by the
Russian military in 1947 the Russians aren't real creative when it comes to
dating or naming their their weapon system so pretty much it has a number on
it that's the year that it was adopted therefore ak-47 1947 some of the good
things about the ak-47 I have personally I like the weapon it's very durable very
rugged if you'll notice that it's there's a lot of metal there's a lot of
wood unlike our m4 platform where we got some plastic and some lighter material
on it this sucker it's pretty heavy weighs in at a little
over 10 pounds fully jammed up it shoots a 7 6 2 by 39 round which is what we
call an intermediate cartridge it's good ballistics out to about 300 meters after
that they start to drop off a little bit out of this gun on the ak-47 it is a
piston driven weapon meaning that it's shoulder-fired there's a piston inside
of it that is operated by a gas system this is a gas tube on it right here and
the gas flows down here operates the piston which operates the bolt carrier
group the pros on this gun would be that it has one a loose fit of parts and some
people wouldn't wouldn't think that would be a good thing but it actually
works out really well this gun is mass produced in multiple different countries
that put it out and so you can find a couple of broken ones on the ground and
cannibalize them put them all together and pretty much can guarantee that
you're going to at least get one working gun out of it so that loose fitting
apart that so that's actually a pretty good thing it also helps with dust
corrosion dirt all that crazy stuff that you get in them you can pick them up out
of the mud and the dirt shake it out and it's usually pretty good to go as a
chrome-lined barrel that's good it's very resistant to corrosive ammunition
that's what you're going to find a lot of corrosive ammo that this
gun to has a tendency to want to shoot it has double rope springs inside so
that means that the hammer spring the trigger springs are very durable they're
going to last a whole lot longer some bad things on this gun would be it
doesn't have a provision for a bolt hold-open
so like on our m4 where we can lock the bolt to the rear this gun doesn't have
any function like that and so it's actually a it's detrimental in a
firefight because on your last round the bolt does not lock to the rear so
basically you don't know when it runs empty until you hear clicking the gun so
that's the loudest sound in a gunfight if you're not sure so no bolt hold-open
provision also makes it difficult to do an unload show clear because you can't
keep the bolt lock to the rear you actually physically have to hold it back
the entire time now the selector switch on this gun if you'll notice is on the
right hand side unlike our m4 which we normally can leave our thumb resting on
it and we have a pretty positive knowledge of where our safety selector
switch is with the ak-47 it's hard to do with our hand on our primary fire
control it's very hard to manipulate that selector switch for most guys like
myself what I'll do is I'll actually just keep my hand resting up here on the
magazine and leave my thumb on the safety selector switch I can still keep
one hand freed open doors hold a flashlight shake hands kiss babies
whatever but with this one if I needed to I can quickly manipulate the safety
selector switch as I'm bringing a gun up and get on target so that's just a
technique that we can use there so now that I've gone over the couple of the
good things and bad things about ak-47 I'm going to shoot a couple rounds take
you through a couple of the different modes of fire so this gun here is a
semi-auto and a fully automatic gun on the side of the weapon here you actually
have three different notches all the way up is safe in the middle we've got a
little infinity symbol that's the fun switch and then all the way at the
bottom it's got a 1 that's our single shot mode all right so we'll shoot a
couple single shots with it
now we'll switch you to the fun switch
so that's a quick review of the ak-47 if you have any questions or comments leave
them in the section below and we'll get back to you thanks