AK Picture Thread

[Mr.B]

this post makes no sense now, photobucket moved stuff around.

[Phazuka]

here's my newest:

[Business_Casual]

Here's my new Khyber Pass built by POH. I highly recommend their work.

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Polish Underfolder Kit
Kvar US Plum grip (1)
Tapco Slant brake (1)
Tapco Fire control (3)
Tapco Piston (1)
NoDak Spud KP Receiver (1)

M_P

[VA_Dinger]

I finally got around to taking some decent photos of my Khyber Pass AKM, Soviet clone AKSU-74 Krinkov, and the amazing VZ-58.

[TOrrock]

Very nice Dinger!

[Jay Cunningham]

Very nice collection. When are you going to sell me that Krink?

[tiger seven]

Great stuff, VA_Dinger!

That Khyber is sweet, and that is 100% absolutely the Krinkov of my dreams!

Derek

[Phazuka]

What exactly is a "Khyber Pass" AK? I've never heard of it before.

[TOrrock]

What exactly is a "Khyber Pass" AK? I've never heard of it before.

Short version....in the mid 90's pictures started coming out of Afghanistan of a weird AKM variant that no one had ever seen before.

It was an AKM with the folding stock mechanism of the AKS-74. It was assumed that local smiths along the Khyber Pass (Afghan/Pakistani border) were building these.

Then pics came out showing Uzbek Federal Troops carrying them as well....muddied the waters.

There's a famous picture of Osama bin Laden firing one.

People started referring to these types of rifles as Khyber Pass builds.

Uzbek Federal Troops:



Osama:

[VA_Dinger]

This is the Uzbek Federal troops photo that got me interested in building one up.