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I'm going to copy an e-mail I just got from my brother. He picked up an M44 yesterday after having shot mine a while back. After cleaning it we took it to the range where we destroyed a few pumpkins!
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After I cleaned all my guns, I put the M44 in it's
sock. Within minutes, I just had to take it out and
look at it. I love this thing. I went to that site
www.7.62X54r.net and looked it up. It was Soviet made
at the Izhevsk armory.
There was some shit on the site about "corrosive"
ammo. They advise you clean the bore with an ammonia
solution before you actually clean it. I'm going to
take good care of it, but I'm not going to bother with
that.
The question I can't find an answer to is: Why the
hell are there so many of them out there? I don't see
how so many rifles could be made that never see
service. Especially WW2 era ones. The cold war lead to
a huge stockpile of AKs, but that's because they were
made for a war that never happened. You'd think the
Russians would have been sending these guns to the
front as fast as the factories could crank them out. I
should find some old M44 buff I can email about it.
I really love this rifle though. It's so cool to hold
something in your hands that was built specifically to
exterminate nazis. This rifle is so manly, I'm
expecting it to just suddenly grow a beard. It's so
Russian, I bet if I dipped the muzzle in vodka it
would start drinking it.
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So why are there so many M44s in really good shape out there? Do any of you have one with a thirst for potato spirits?
Quote:
After I cleaned all my guns, I put the M44 in it's
sock. Within minutes, I just had to take it out and
look at it. I love this thing. I went to that site
www.7.62X54r.net and looked it up. It was Soviet made
at the Izhevsk armory.
There was some shit on the site about "corrosive"
ammo. They advise you clean the bore with an ammonia
solution before you actually clean it. I'm going to
take good care of it, but I'm not going to bother with
that.
The question I can't find an answer to is: Why the
hell are there so many of them out there? I don't see
how so many rifles could be made that never see
service. Especially WW2 era ones. The cold war lead to
a huge stockpile of AKs, but that's because they were
made for a war that never happened. You'd think the
Russians would have been sending these guns to the
front as fast as the factories could crank them out. I
should find some old M44 buff I can email about it.
I really love this rifle though. It's so cool to hold
something in your hands that was built specifically to
exterminate nazis. This rifle is so manly, I'm
expecting it to just suddenly grow a beard. It's so
Russian, I bet if I dipped the muzzle in vodka it
would start drinking it.
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So why are there so many M44s in really good shape out there? Do any of you have one with a thirst for potato spirits?