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Posted: 9/15/2004 4:57:30 PM EDT
 BESLAN, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: An Ossetian police officer stands guard outside school No. 6 in Beslan, North Ossetia, 15 September 2004, as schools in the town reopened after the hostage crisis. Students returned to school in Beslan for the first time since hundreds of children and their parents were killed in a violent end to a mass hostage-taking at a Beslan primary school. AFP PHOTO / MAXIM MARMUR (Photo credit should read MAXIM MARMUR/AFP/Getty Images) |
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:03:13 PM EDT
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It is a red X.
 Oh, Now it works. 
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:04:03 PM EDT
[#2]
Actually...it is a red X in a white box
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:10:36 PM EDT
[#3]
Looks like an AKS-74 with a 20 round magazine in it.
5.45x39mm. |
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:12:39 PM EDT
[#4]
Huh, so that's a 20 for a 74? Never saw one but I'd sure like to have one!
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:14:23 PM EDT
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Doesnt it look bigger than that?? |
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:16:58 PM EDT
[#6]
Russia has the sloppiest looking BDUs I've ever seen. Every pic I see reminds me...
take care, Tec |
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:18:20 PM EDT
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Looks more like a Yugo pistol grip. They made a .30 caliber (8mm?) at one time.
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:21:38 PM EDT
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Looks wider to me. More like a .308 magazine. Kind of unusual. |
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:34:58 PM EDT
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It's something else. Note the lack of AK-74 muzzle brake. I'm betting it's some sort of 9x39mm job, which probably was shipped with synthetic furniture then later replaced with wood from an AK-74.
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:45:58 PM EDT
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it is the 308ish version, i read something about it somewhere, i think it was on this board
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:46:33 PM EDT
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Russian side folder,AKM slant brake,Russian AKM[possibly 74] upper and lower and sling.The mag is either covered up with a wide leather pouch or possibly a shotshell mag.I don't know?
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Posted: 9/15/2004 5:48:04 PM EDT
[#12]
Almost looks like an 8rd 12ga mag
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Posted: 9/15/2004 6:12:25 PM EDT
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The mag is tapered at the front, like its meant for rifle rounds, but it looks too big to be x39 anything.
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Posted: 9/15/2004 7:38:20 PM EDT
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I still think it's a '74 with a 20 round magazine. The 9x39mm is still 39mm long, so it wouldn't be any different than the 7.62x39mm or the 5.45mm in length.
I think the angle of the photo may make it appear that it's longer than it is. The only other thing I could think of, and I seriously doubt that it is, would be an AK chambered in .410ga. It's the only thing I could think of that would be longer than the x39mm ammo. Yugo pistol grips look totally different, much more curved. Why would a Russian have a Yugo rifle? Lumpy....who knows. I'd take one of whatever it is though.... 
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Posted: 9/15/2004 10:24:20 PM EDT
[#15]
More shots of the same guy/same gun:
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Posted: 9/16/2004 1:42:08 AM EDT
[#16]
Yeesh!
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Posted: 9/16/2004 2:34:57 AM EDT
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If you look closely you can see it has no bayonet lug, no cleaning rod loop below the gas block or the front sight.
This looks like a homemade conversion of a Saiga hunting rifle still in Feinswine approved configuration :) |
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Posted: 9/16/2004 4:01:55 AM EDT
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note the complete lack of any fsb bayo mount ot ring area to retain the cleaning rod in the top pic of lumpy's second post.
i'm leaning toward a shotgun bore akm at this point. |
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Posted: 9/16/2004 4:08:29 AM EDT
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Better pics!Definately a shotgun,I'd like to have one myself.
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Posted: 9/16/2004 4:20:22 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2004 4:33:36 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2004 4:38:58 AM EDT
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OT.....did anybody else notice in the first pic the boys are laughing at the youngster with the plaid backpack? LET THIS BE A LESSON TO YOU YOUNG PARENTS! NO PLAID BACKPACKS FOR BOYS!
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Posted: 9/16/2004 4:50:14 AM EDT
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That's not nearly as funny as the soldier with his muzzle pointed towards the door.
OK, that's not really funny. |
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Posted: 9/16/2004 5:13:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2004 5:36:33 AM EDT
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Good eyes Lumpy and TXN!!!
And WTF is up with blue camo? |
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