8/31/2023 0 Comments Chinese ndm 86![]() The AK-style sights and safety selector are familiar to most, while the bolt hold-open is not, but most welcome. The 4x PSO-1 optic is side-rail mounted, heavier than hell, and rock solid, boding well for the surprisingly short and sharp, but oddly light, recoil the rifle produces. The gas port, gas adjustment control (adjustable with a 54r cartridge rim), and two-piece handguard sit behind this, and with the uniquely curved magazine, help give the gun its classic profile. It’s long by design, to extract the most oomph possible from the 54r cartridge, and thin to save weight. The first thing that stands out is the thin 24-inch barrel. That said, to the right person $5,000 to $10,000 is a small price to pay to own a “grail gun,” fulfill their Soviet LARP fantasies, keep as an investment/collector piece, or just enjoy a wildly unusual piece of firearms history. Difficult to seat at first, the otherwise excellent magazines become easy to swap with practice. Furthermore, magazines and spare parts (good luck finding a receiver or barrel without cannibalizing or having one custom-made) are even harder to find, with prices approaching extortion. before restrictions stopped the flow, so they’re neither common nor affordable. There were only around 500 such rifles imported to the U.S. This example of the NDM-86 is thanks to Ray Miller, a Slav-gun expert from Northern Virginia. ![]() The SVD/Tigr/NDM-86 is an icon in American gun culture, perhaps the most widely recognizable “sniper” rifle in the world. The only change that makes a practical difference is the twist rate. Beyond these minor variances, they’re functionally identical. Additionally, while the SVD and NDM share a free-floating firing pin, like the SKS, many NDM importers added a firing pin spring. The bolt carrier is slightly shorter, with a slightly different shape to its protruding tail. Fifty-two nations have issued the SVD, or one of its 16 variants, since 1963, and it remains in production today. The Warsaw Pact nations agreed, as did much of the developing world’s armies. HOW IT WENTįrom the Soviet perspective, the SVD had all the pros of a DMR and none of the cons of a sniper rifle. The original design included more or less a second sear inside the fire control group like you’d find in a select-fire weapon, serving only to stop the hammer from falling before the bolt positively closes and locks. Major divergences include a different bolt carrier, three-lug locking bolt, short-stroke piston (retained inside the forend rather than a monolithic piece with the bolt carrier) with adjustable gas settings, and an adjustable gas system. However, the internals are surprisingly dissimilar. Retaining the AK-style manual of arms was a primary goal for the RKKA, so any soldier could pick up and operate the DMR. ![]() We in the West eventually adopted it a half-century later, as the utility of a DM in every squad is undeniable, even if they can’t do everything a sniper can.Įxternally, the Dragunov appears very AK-like, which is both intentional and deceptive. This was a fairly unusual concept at the time. They reasoned that what the West would later call a Designated Marksman, distributed evenly to infantry units with both the weapon and training to hit man-sized targets at 600 to 800 meters, would be far more useful than dedicated sniper teams assigned at the company level. In essence, the SVD was mean to suppress or even counter your average Western soldier or marine with an M14 or LMG, allowing the rest of the Soviet rifle company to close with the enemy and shower them with AKM fire, as their doctrine encouraged. The DMR concept was born as a way to partially mitigate the range/power disadvantage, and so advancing under fire wouldn’t be a death sentence. Similarities and differences abound between this NDM-86 and both the AK platform, and the SVD/Tigr. ![]() The Soviets worried that the range advantage Western full-size rifle cartridges provided would lead to increased casualties. 30-caliber battle rifles with much greater range and muzzle energy/velocity. When these decisions were made in the mid-to-late 1950s, Warsaw Pact countries were using 7.62×39 AK-47s, while the West was still fielding.
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