Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Valmet M76: Finland's Stamped Receiver AK" video.

  1. A lot of Finnish reservists have one as a keepsake. It was tradition that when our service period was coming to an end, we'd "lose" the bayonet. Of course, we had pay for it, but the replacement cost was quite reasonable.
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  2. That's what I was thinking, but when my fellow reservist shooters introduced me to ARs, I had a change of heart.
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  3. Valmet tractors were renamed Valtra more than twenty ago. Also, Valmet hasn't made any rifles since the mid-eighties.
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  4.  @edgarburlyman738  It's mainly because of the obsolescent 7.62x39 round. The 5.56 is inherently more accurate and better-behaved recoil-wise. It has to be said that as reservist shooters, we compete on accuracy. It's only half the story in a war.
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  5.  @edgarburlyman738  I've shot at cinder blocks and pig carcasses with both. It was a tie.
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  6.  @XtreeM_FaiL  Polyethylene, rather.
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  7. Don't we know it.
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