Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Valmet M78: Finland's Hypothetical Squad Automatic Weapon" video.

The RK62s with stamped receivers are kept in storage, because otherwise Finnish conscripts would abuse the hell out of them.
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@colemanmoore9871 In Finland, reindeer are semi-domesticated and ear-marked by their owners, who're typically indigenous Sami people. I suppose the latter can offer them for hunting, but it's not very sporting to shoot a reindeer. Even though they roam free most the year, they're not particularly shy of people. Last winter, when I took part in a veterans' biathlon, it was like they were cheering me on from the sidelines. I could've bagged quite a few as the dumb animals stood around the targets.
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@jeffreyroot6300 Wapitis. Your first settlers, being from Britain, didn't know what a real elk looked like. They called the first large animal with antlers that they encountered "elk". When they came across the real thing, they had to think of something else.
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Petras, or Valmet Hunters, are still pretty common. You regularly come across them on elk hunts (that's moose for the Yanks).
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@jeffreyroot6300 The ancient Brits had hunted the elk to extinction, so it's an honest mistake. Unlike your caribou, our reindeer are half-domesticated. There was an public outcry here when Sarah Palin was shown shooting a caribou. She might as well have shot Bambi.
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@jeffreyroot6300 I was referring to an adorable Disney character, not the real thing. Hunting is uniquely popular in Finland. You might raise a few eyebrows in the US by saying that you hunt, but no one here will bat an eyelid.
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I carried a stamped-receiver RK62 in '86 - '87. The sights were peep sights and no folding stocks either. Nothing wrong with them as far as I could tell, but us "spool arses" we weren't quite as heavy-handed with them as the "grass drills".
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@FROOBELINKALIKAT-p9z You should be a philosopher. On second thought, don't give up your day job.
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Undoubtedly it will work, but you'll have to bring along leather mittens. It's like when foreigners wear jewellery to the sauna. Once.
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@FROOBELINKALIKAT-p9z You must have an American English dictionary. It's definitely "elk" in British English. Despite Brexit, British English remains the formal version of the language within the European Union.
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