i wish i had an albanian gf

But then sks started getting collectable and expensive so now I have to pay like 500 for a downsy sks because so few were made

fuck that'd make a nice wallpaper

ye

think they have it on aliexpress

know they have ak 47 and 74

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too bad I don't know of any other upscaling methods

Because waifu2x just kinda fucks up

Albanian bf

what a sexy rifle

I'm so glad the mosin meme is dying

What other bolt action rifles you have

Springfield? Kar98k?

Matt is a simple boi

Has his shotty and problem solver

@Matthew r-relations with russia will thaw soon enough and we will be again flooded with cheap rifles

😃

Didn't they declare all guns in storage national treasures or something and refuse to export anymore?

whaaaat

no way they consider all those fucking Mosins national treasures

Can't they make knock-offs Mosins?

they do i think

Like there's already fuckton of variants of AKs and M4/M16s

Problem is scale, if you try to make a mosin with modern manufacturing with modern margins you are looking at 600 dollar rifles at least

ARs are cheap because there is literally wartime production to keep up with people who like to shoot at the range, AKs aren't cheap as they were and even before export bans they were climbing

Well, the ruskies made like, 40 million of the fuckers

so there should still be plenty around

Out of the 40 million a couple million were lost in the fog of war, another couple million were worn out and scrapped and another couple million sent around the world during arms sales and communist aid

So in the grand scheme of things you have maybe hundred million people who might want a cheap rifle and have the laws that are fine with them having a bolt action with minimum hoops

@johnfrum that's just not true john

And there are maybe only a couple million to go around

A mosin could be easily under 100

New production?

No

You just need a large enough factory

Yes

A large enough factory isnt capable being built and turing a profit

As long as you avoid machining as much as possible, hammerforge, etc.