Because the AK works. While the AK isn’t as magically reliable and durable as its greatest fans make it out to be, a quality AK rifle is a very reliable workmanlike firearm. The maintenance required is minimal. I clean and lubricate my rifles. Just the same, a quality AK will go a ...
7.62×39 is also the basis for the PPC line of wildcats which are among the most accurate cartridges in the world. Don’t blame the AK’s inaccuracy (due to intentional design elements) on the 7.62×39. Wade December 28, 2012 At 00:53 Exactly, the reason the AK is so reliable is...
The paper (and the shorter popular summary) describes an Australian study of a variable trait: an extra artery in the forearm and hands of humans called “the median artery”. It is present in fetuses, where it feeds the growing arm and hand, but regresses during development so that it’s...
A commuter on the London underground is at risk of dying / being maimed by a terrorist attack (IRA, AQ, whoever). The President of the US is not (or at least the risk is so low as to be effectively zero). However a President who is seen to be “soft on terrorism” (whatever tha...
So with nearly 95 million Nigerians preparing to go to the polls on the 25th of February, the country’s seventh general elections since the 1999 return to civilian rule, questions around security linger. “There is a thick veil of violence shrouding the 2023 elections that undermines people’...