• dactylotheca@suppo.fiOP
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    4 months ago

    Oh yeah like I said they’ve made a bunch of gold plated ones and I’ve likely seen the same gold plated RK you have, but they still look very much like Sako, like the one on that page:

    Looks like the drip I posted is a Chinese Type 56-1 at least according to reddit and I’d tend to agree, because you’d need to modify a Sako really heavily to make it look that much like an AK, and I doubt Sako would bother since they’d have to custom make everything including the receiver. They do customize stuff but that wouldn’t be customization, but a whole 'nother gun with practically no common parts except maybe some of the guts (even the charging handle is “wrong” for RK95 so the bolt carrier would have to be custom)

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      4 months ago

      Yep, after comparing both images more closely I am now certain that I was wrong. The structural dissimilarities are simply too great, even for a heavily modified model.

      This is a good reminder for me to keep my facts straight before I start claiming truths online, based on just memories from quarter a century ago ;)

      Thank you for kindly showing me my mistake!

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        4 months ago

        That’s the shit part about human memory: you never really know if you brain is lying to you or not.

        You went with your best knowledge and then changed your view when it turned out you weren’t right, and that’s pretty much the best anybody can do.

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          4 months ago

          True.

          I think I’ve reached the age where finding out I’ve been wrong about something isn’t all that bad. Accept and examine the presented facts and you just learn something new. And there’s no shame in that.