Filed in things you now know are possible but should probably never try in your lifetime unless your life depended on it but maybe still shouldn’t: jump starting a dead car battery with an AK-47. Yes, you can do that. Watch these insane Iraqi soldiers use the metal of the AK-47 to bridge the two batteries. Metal conducts electricity! And I guess AK-47s are basically Swiss Army knives, right?
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You may remember our friend Destin at Smarter Every Day shooting an AK-47 underwater
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The AK-47 can be considered the Timex watch of the gun world. It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking, except that by ticking we of course mean firing round after round of ammunition. The automatic machine gun is based on a gas recoil system that uses the hot expanding gases of a bullet being fired to automatically rechamber the next round, and surprisingly, it appears to work even better under water.
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If you have an old rusty shovel lying around, but really would prefer to have a gun, just do what this guy did and make an AK-47 out of the hole-digger.
So, just how do you turn an old shovel into an assault rifle? Well, Boris melted down the metal shovel head and reforged it into the actual gun receiver. The result is a beautiful handmade gun that looks like it belongs in the game Fallout. We aren’t sure why he did it. There was probably alcohol involved.
I’d like to see what he can do with a garden hoe and a post-hole-digger. He would probably make a a kick-butt LMG or combat shotgun.
[via Northeastshooters]
Cheap and deadly, the Avtomat Kalashnikova —the AK-47—is one of the 20th century’s most influential technologies. But these days it’s not desperate revolutionaries and militiamen around the world who are buying the Soviet killing machine. Gun-toting American civilians account for 28-percent of sales. More »
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