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Posted: 5/26/2013 8:01:43 PM EDT
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Anyone have any info on this variant? I dig the mag. 
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It might be the same idea as this. From the Kalashnikov Museum. This modification was produced on special order - the best USSR frontier guard soldiers were awarded with individual AKMs of green color and individually labeled. Mikhail Kalashnikov would often visit frontier posts and personally hand this special AK as an award to the best guard. The soldier wouldn't take it home though then his draft was over - the gun would be kept at the frontier post's own museum. The label on this modification of AKM reads: "To the Winner of Socialist Labor Contest".  |
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For comparison, here is an early AK74 deact. You'll see it has the same gas block and trigger guard.
More pics on The AK Forum 
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Very cool for sure  the gas block is similar to the one on your new akm build and the trigger guard is interesting also.Speaking of my AKM build. A member from another forum gave me the following info on it: The cast gas block is from the late production model after 1974. |
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Thats one of the AK's from the museum at the Izhevsk Machine Works Kalashnikov factory in Izhevsk.
Rare guard models, one off prototype models,etc are there for viewing. Here is a thread from a member who visited it firsthand. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_4_64/128420_Got_to_visit_the_kalashnikov_Museum_in__Izhevsk__Russia_____.html |
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Very cool for sure the gas block is similar to the one on your new akm build and the trigger guard is interesting also.Speaking of my AKM build. A member from another forum gave me the following info on it: The cast gas block is from the late production model after 1974. Did he mention what year they switched to the 90 degree block? Nictra said he has a 74 kit with one and I'm wondering if that's the only year they used them...i would imagine they are pretty uncommon. |
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