#7.62x39mm

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WBP 762SC - 7.62x39mm

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Vz-2008 firing out of battery

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[tentacion3099]

Kresimir Grenade Launcher. A 5 round semi auto grenade launcher made for the Croatian military. It used a dual M50 grenade with percussion caps and 7.62x39mm blank launch cartridge

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A horrifying "OICW" style monstrosity made from a 7.62x39mm AK and a Saiga-12 semi-auto shotgun.

[punisheddonjuan]

Wait, aren't you Canadian how are you shooting guns?

Contrary to popular belief, firearms aren't illegal to own in Canada. You do need to be licensed to own firearms and there are different classes of license required to own different types of firearm (e.g. a non-restricted license allows you to own manually operated rifles and shotguns, while a restricted license allows you to own certain kinds of handgun and semi-automatic rifles; to get a restricted license you need to already have had a non-restricted license for a period of time, I think it's a year). Canadian gun laws are in desperate need of reforming though, because they simply don't make any sense and our government has a ridiculous policy of banning firearms by name. This means that there are a weird loopholes when it comes to what is legal to own and what is not. For example, while it's illegal to own an AR-15 in Canada, it's perfectly legal to own an AR-180 which is functionally identical to an AR-15. Yes the former is operated by direct gas impingement and the latter by a short stroke piston, but they're both semi-automatic rifles that fire 5.56mm NATO rounds from detachable box magazines. The specific type of operating mechanism in a gun doesn't really matter if you're on the other end of it. Similarly, an AK-47 is illegal to own in Canada but a Chinese Type-81 which is patterned on the AK-47 and fires the same 7.62x39mm round is perfectly legal.

I know all this because a real good buddy of mine going back to childhood is one of those fabled "responsible gun owners". He does everything right, all of his firearms are completely legal, and he stores them securely in a locked steel gun locker that he has bolted to the basement floor of his home. He went through the necessary police checks, attended the mandatory safety classes and keeps his license up to date. He also belongs to a registered gun club. He's so straight laced when it comes to the rules around firearms that I couldn't even convince him to stop at the Tim Horton's drive through the last time we went shooting. It was straight to the range and then back to his place to lock everything up, no stops. He understands that it's a privilege to own firearms and that he has responsibilities and duties to that privilege. Honestly, if all firearms owners were like him, owning firearms wouldn't even be a political question, but they're not, which is why we have gun laws. And it's why both he and I both support gun control legislation, we'd just like that legislation to make sense.

Anyway, this buddy of mine happens to possess the sort of arsenal more often associated with a survivalist in rural Montana or a Latin American militia than with a social democrat living in suburban Ontario. He's just really into the history of firearms and their mechanical engineering (he works as a machine shop tech). So I've been out shooting with him a bunch of times over the years. I was also in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets as a kid and learned basic firearm safety, upkeep, and use. I was taught how to shoot on a .22lr Lee-Enfield No. 7, a training rifle converted from No. 4 Enfields, and so did my younger brother who was in the Army Cadets. If I were more able-bodied and had the money I wouldn't mind owning a military surplus bolt action for plinking. Sport shooting is a hell of a lot of fun and anyone who doesn't think that it takes skill and practice or that it isn't fun probably hasn't tried it.

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my friends sent this to a group chat we're in and i thought you might know what the one in the top left of the flag is :3

Sorry it took me a while to get around to this one!

So, this one's a little tricky and requires a few layers of explanation. This is, as far as I can tell, an AKMS assault rifle (Avtomat Kalashnikova pattern, chambered in 7.62x39mm) that has been converted to a pistol carbine using the parts kit of an AKS-74U (chambered in 5.45x39mm). This configuration is sometimes called the "AKMSU" or sometimes "Krinkov" (which is actually an AKS-74U nickname)

Notable identifiers include the stamped steel magazine inserted into the gun (which normally corresponds with the 7.62 cartridge and not 5.45), the folded swivel stock, and the stubby barrel with the muzzle booster / flash hider and compact gas block connection.

I was able to find one instance of this near-exact configuration in Payday 2, and it's listed as the "Krinkov" there. It's also classed as a submachine gun... which is wrong, of course, because 7.62x39mm is very far from being subsonic ammo, and man does that always irritate me.

By the way, in the future, you need to use the submissions tab to submit something for identification! :)

I'm just too lazy to enforce that right now =w=

[catgirlforeskin]

you have heard about catgirl foreskin, brace yourself for dogboy hymen

The only thing I’d be “bracing” is my rifle stock to put 7.62x39mm rounds through that nasty thang.

[yourtongzhihazel]

They should start making the Shanxi pistol again but chamber it in even bigger cartridges I want a Shanxi that fires .50 Action Express so people stop buying those ugly piece of shit Desert Eagles and I stop having to see them at shows and on cuck blogs on here

I want a Shanxi chambered in .500 Nitro Express like some kind of fucking metal gear character

Honestly yes mausers are so fucking expensive give me a 500 usd boombox.

On a side note, its too bad because of trade restrictions I can't get any Norinco guns but if you live in klanada of all places you can get the Type 81 SR, which is basically a 7.62x39mm SVD based off the type 81 rifle.

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Chinese SKS Type 56 - 7.62x39mm

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GIGN operator during a manhunt in French Guiana, April 2023. Note he is using a CZ BREN 2 chambered for 7.62x39mm, rather than a NATO cartridge.

[gunzlotzofgunz]

POLY TECH AK-47/S

7.62x39mm; 16'' barrel

[uncle-mojave]

I've been wearing the same 7.62x39mm bullet for about seven years now

Haven't taken it off in that time. The black paracord's held up perfectly. I wash it every time I have a shower. It's stiff but works.

Its my good luck charm which considering the injuries over the last couple years it probably does not work but I also have no intent to take it off either.

[tentacion3099]

Venezuelan Special Tactical Operations Unit (U.O.T.E) commander with a 🇷🇺AK103 7.62x39mm assault rifle.

paint job✅

Amazon grade gear 💪

that suppressor🤌

[turtlemagnum]

gun rant: long

i remember i came across this one "gun article" clearly written by somebody who knew very little about guns but was being paid to write about them and had access to google, i believe it was about the AK-100 series of rifles. they noted that russia had been selling a country (i forget which but it might've been india) a fair amount of AK-103s, and the writer made a comment that stuck with me. it was something to the effect of "this country currently has firearms in 7.62x51mm NATO as standard, but for a reason i can't seem to understand they're transitioning into the significantly less powerful 7.62x39mm?" now, i'd prefer not to belittle this person for just like, not knowing their shit in regards to guns since it is a pretty complex topic with a lot of nuance and contradictions, so here's why a military would go for a less powerful cartridge:

with a lot of things, "good enough" isn't enough. obviously this depends on a lot of factors, but if you told someone that the meal they cooked you was "good enough" there's a good chance they'd take it as something of an insult, y'know? in terms of power in guns, there's absolutely a threshold where "good enough" is absolutely enough. if you need a living thing to not be alive anymore, even if one cartridge does more damage than another, for specific tasks and purposes there's a point where enough damage is enough damage, since they're either dead or they're not. regretfully, we've yet to find a way to kill things even more dead than they already are, so for now making something dead is more or less a binary of "is it dead? then it's good enough". this is why the firearms world made the switch from only using full powered rifle cartridges to predominantly using intermediately powered rifle cartridges.

so, a little lesson in terminology followed by a little history lesson: there are certain, let's call them "ballparks" of a cartridge's power level, usually correlated with overall size. the most common ones i've heard used are "pistol cartridge", "full powered rifle cartridge", and "intermediate rifle cartridge". personally, i'm of the opinion that you could elaborate on that (there's a pretty significant difference in pistol cartridges designed for pocket guns as opposed to service handguns to magnums, just as there's a significant difference in short action full powereds and magnums, but i digress). but to put it in laymans terms, a pistol cartridge is just what a pistol would most likely use, a full powered rifle cartridge is for whole ass big rifles (if you want a very layman idea of it think sniper rifles), and intermediate guys are what bridge the gap between them. we saw widespread adoption of intermediate rifle cartridges starting with the AK-47 (and really moreso the AKM in 1959), and really took off with the NATO adoption of 5.56mm in the 60s and 70s. now, you may be thinking, "if it's just straight up weaker than the stuff that came before, why change it?" and there are a few reasons for that!

first of all, there's the matter of logistics. rifles in intermediate caliber (typically called assault rifles in military parlance) cost less materials to produce, as does the ammunition for them, they provide lower recoil relative to full powered rifle cartridges and therefore allow for better accuracy in full auto, they're smaller and lighter and therefore more maneuverable in tight spaces and have higher ammunition capacity in comparable designs (typical AR-15 and AK magazines both have 30 rounds standard, the comparable AR-10 and all other battle rifles of the era i'm aware of had 20 rounders). and all in all, remember what i said about "enough being good enough"? intermediate rifle cartridges are designed to propel a round at juuust the right velocity and weight that they still achieve an impressive wounding capability (at least relative to pistol rounds), with the main disadvantages relative to full powered rounds being a shortened effective range and worse armor penetrating capabilities. which, respectively don't really matter that much because we've known since ww2 that most actually effective combat has happened out to ranges maxing out at about 300 meters/yards (coincidentally what's considered the maximum effective range of every mainstream intermediate guy i'm aware of) and worse barrier penetration, particularly armor penetration (doesn't really matter because basically no military who focuses on armor focuses on armor for individuals, since armored vehicles are just way more impactful to focus on as far as i'm aware. also, to a certain extent armor penetration is a matter of bullet construction, and it's well documented that if properly designed around it an intermediate gamer is perfectly fine for it, particularly 7.62x39mm).

all of this is to say, of course there are deficiencies in intermediate rounds. hence why we haven't fully abandoned full powered rounds, we still have general purpose machineguns like the M240 (7.62x51mm) and the PKM (7.62x54mmR) and sniper rifles in even higher powered rounds like the AWM in .338 Lapua Mag (8.58x70mm), not to mention how we still have SMGs and PDWs in calibers like 9x19mm parabellum and 5.7x28mm. it's just that things like that tend to work best as a supplement rather than as the Core Fighting Rifle kinda deal, y'know? so yeah like, there's definitely a lot of reasons as to why you'd start transitioning away from a full powered gamer to an intermediate one, despite how the US is teasing wanting to switch back to a full powered one (which is a whole other can of worms, and i feel like that might be getting quietly shelved, but who knows. shit like this takes forever anyways, and it's not like the US military's needs as an entity are remotely comparable to my needs as Some Guy)

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The Zastava M19 - the new service rifle of Serbia (adopted 2022)

Top: M19 with 6.5x39mm Grendel barrel and 25-round magazine.

Middle: M19 with 7.62x39mm barrel and 30-round magazine (note this barrel lacks a muzzle device)

Bottom: M20 compact carbine, here in 6.5mm Grendel. I am unclear if the M20 is a different weapon, or just a designation given to the M19 when issued with the short barrels.

The barrel is user-swappable without tools.