AK-47 vs AR-15 vs Mosin-Nagant

[Drache]

AK-47: It works though you have never cleaned it once every couple years.
AR-15: You have a special cleaner and use it after every day.
Mosin: It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945

AK-47: You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from inside
AR-15: You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600 meters
Mosin: You can hit the farm from two counties over

AK-47: Cheap mags are fun to buy
AR-15: Cheap mags melt
Mosin: You know what a clip actually is!

AK-47: Your safety can be heard from 300 meters away
AR-15: You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger
Mosin: What's a safety?

AK-47: Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling
AR-15: Your rifle has a 9 point stealth tactical suspension system
Mosin: You rifle has dog collar

AK-47: Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter
AR-15: Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife
Mosin: Your bayonet can stab someone on the other side of the room

AK-47: You can put a .30" hole through 12" of oak, if you can hit it
AR-15: You can put one hole in a paper target at 100 meters with 30 rounds
Mosin: You can knock down everyone else's target with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange

AK-47: When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club
AR-15: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great wiffle bat
Mosin: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood

AK-47: Recoil is manageable, even fun
AR-15: What's recoil?
Mosin: Recoil is often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the previous shot

AK-47: Your rifle can be used by any two bit nation's most illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide.
AR-15: Your rifle is used by elite forces worldwide to fight two bit nations' most illiterate conscripts
Mosin: Your rifle has fought against itself and won every time

AK-47: Your rifle won some revolutions
AR-15: Your rifle won the Cold War
Mosin: Your rifle won a pole vault event

AK-47: You buy cheap ammo by the case
AR-15: You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds one by one
Mosin: You dig your ammo out of a farmer's field in Ukraine and it works just fine

AK-47: Service life, 50 years
AR-15: Service life, 30 years
Mosin: Service life, 100 years, and counting

AK-47: It's easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge sizes
AR-15: You can change cartridge sizes with the push of a couple of pins and a new upper
Mosin: You believe no real man would dare risk the ridicule of his friends by suggesting to shhot anything but 7.62x54r from an Mosin

AK-47: You can repair your rifle with a big hammer and a swift kick
AR-15: ou can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith, it's under warranty!
Mosin: If your rifle breaks, you buy a new one

AK-47: You consider it a badge of honor when you get your handguards to burst into flames
AR-15: You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5 shot group
Mosin: You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle 5 rounds without the aid of a 2x4

AK-47: After a long day the range you relax by watching "Red Dawn"
AR-15: After a long day at the range you relax by watching "Blackhawk Down"
Mosin: After a long day at the range you relax by visiting the chiropractor

AK-47: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for a stiff shot of Vodka
AR-15: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for hotdogs and apple pie
Mosin: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for shishkabob

AK-47: You can accessorize you rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice stock set
AR-15: Your rifle's accessories are eight times more valuable than your rifle
Mosin: Your rifle's accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, but it's buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest

AK-47: Your rifle's finish is varnish and paint
AR-15: Your rifle's finish is Teflon and high tech polymers
Mosin: our rifle's finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and Olga's toe nails

AK-47: Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Mikhail Kalashnikov
AR-15: Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Eugene Stoner
Mosin: You're not sure there WERE cameras to photograph Sergei Mosin


AK-47: Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to hold your rifle over your head and shout "Wolverines!"
AR-15: Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to clear your house, slicing the pie from room to room.
Mosin: Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a fighting trench in the the yard to sleep in.

AK-47: You can pick off a deer pretty easy at 300 meters
AR-15: You can pick off prairie dogs at 300 meters all day long
Mosin: You can pick off a moose from the next province

AK-47: Sometimes mistaken for spare parts
AR-15: Sometimes mistaken for a toy
Mosin: Sometimes mistaken for an artillery piece

AK-47: Makes a Boom when fired
AR-15: Makes a Pop when fired
Mosin: A group of Germans just yelled "Vat Vas Dat Noise?"

AK-47: I shot the enemy!
AR-15: I think I shot the enemy!
Mosin: I got the enemy and the 4 standing behind him!

AK-47: Heavily dents the metal gong and makes a loud gong sound
AR-15: Scratches the metal gong and makes a ping sound
Mosin: Can't tell if you hit the gong because it goes straight through

AK-47: Puts a big hole through a tree
AR-15: Puts a small hole in a tree
Mosin: Chops and stacks the tree into firewood

AK-47: Cost you $600
AR-15: Cost you $1200
Mosin: Free with a tank of gas

AK-47: Can start the hand guards on fire from too much shooting
AR-15: Can start a fire if too close to a magnifying glass
Mosin: Can start a fire from the fireball from the muzzle

AK-47: Iron sights are good enough
AR-15: Lots of fancy optics available
Mosin: Barrel is so long who needs sights to aim, it always shoots point blank

AK-47: Can take down deer sized game
AR-15: Causes an argument if asked if it can take take deer sized game
Mosin: Causes a call from the US Government asking if you know what happened to their satellite

AK-47: Invented 60 years ago by wounded tank sergeant
AR-15: Invented 50 years ago by a consummate engineer
Mosin: Invented 117 years ago by two drunks on a budget

AK-47: Used with ammo not in accordance with the Geneva Convention
AR-15: Used with ammo accordance with the Geneva Convention
Mosin: One of the reasons the Geneva Convention was written

AK-47: Useful against armored foe
AR-15: Useful against unarmored foe
Mosin: Useful against tanks

AK-47: Five to six inch groups at 100 yards
AR-15: On inch group at 100 yards
Mosin: Muzzle is one inch from target at 100 yards

AK-47: Low cost, low maintenance
AR-15: High cost, high maintenance
Mosin: Free with a tank of gas and hasn't been cleaned since WWII

[rt green]

I liked that. I own a mosin! best 100 bucks I ever spent

[Drache]

I liked that. I own a mosin! best 100 bucks I ever spent

Just got one for Christmas! Sitting here watching Enemy at the Gates and realized I need to buy a $700 Mosin Sniper rifle to match the K98 Sniper Rifle I'm building

[moparguy01]

That was great. Honestly though I sure like my old Mosin. only cost me 60 bucks and its pretty accurate.

[polywideblock]

very  good      some of those statements are even sort of true 

[Lighthorseman]

Ha!  Owned all three, and so much of that is right on!   

[daveco]

Personal preference.

[Drache]

Personal preference.

One of the best Canadian inventions in my opinion.  

[daveco]

One of the best Canadian inventions in my opinion.  

Yes, a lot of great Americans started out as Canadians.

[Mopar440+6]

Ok, most of the posts here get me to giggle a little but this one had me ROLLING. Like tears in my eyes, can't breathe. That was awesome. Great find Drache.

[AKcharger]

 

[DixieRestoParts]

All fine instruments.

Looking for a good K98 to round out my own collection of WWII rifles. Bangety Bangety bang bang.