{"id":5540,"date":"2017-12-13T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/13\/khyber-pass-handmade-bolt-action-ak-lookalike\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:13:21","slug":"khyber-pass-handmade-bolt-action-ak-lookalike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/13\/khyber-pass-handmade-bolt-action-ak-lookalike\/","title":{"rendered":"Khyber Pass Handmade Bolt Action AK Lookalike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZZTD3w_a5Q?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we are looking at a unique rifle in the National Firearms Centre collection &#8211; at first glance it appears to be an AK in a full-length rifle cartridge, using a Bren gun magazine. A closer look will show that it is actually a bolt action rifle, and a careful inspection just makes things stranger.<\/p>\n<p>The entire weapon is manufactured from scratch, not using scrounged parts. While the magazine looks like a Bren magazine and the bolt looks like a P14 Enfield, both are actually handmade. The &#8220;gas tube&#8221; is entirely decorative, and the &#8220;cleaning rod&#8221; is fake; both too short and too large in diameter to fit down the barrel. Intriguingly, the caliber of the rifle is a bit of a mystery &#8211; it is crudely marked &#8220;7MM&#8221;, but the barrel is larger than 7mm in diameter. The most likely cartridges for a rifle from this area of Afghanistan or the Khyber Pass \/ Darra region of Pakistan would be 8mm Mauser, .303 British, or 7.62x54R &#8211; and none of these fit. It is entirely possible that the rifle is intended to be just a decoration. I would certainly not want to the the first person to try firing it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of this rifle-like object, don&#8217;t miss the ARES companion blog post:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/pakistani-ak-style-bolt-action-rifle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/pakistani-ak-style-bolt-action-rifle\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Today we are looking at a unique rifle in the National Firearms Centre collection &#8211; at first glance it appears to be an AK in a full-length rifle cartridge, using a Bren gun magazine. A closer look will show that it is actually a bolt action rifle, and a careful inspection just makes things&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/13\/khyber-pass-handmade-bolt-action-ak-lookalike\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khyber Pass Handmade Bolt Action AK Lookalike<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14551,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions\/14551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}