Sexy as hell and with 20rd mags, but still only available in 7.62x54R:
For more than 50 years, the Russian army has fielded a beastly semi-automatic sniper rifle called the Dragunov. Now the rifle’s developer has pulled back the curtain from its potential replacement, the SVK, at a major Moscow arms show.
The SVK is a semi-automatic 7.62 x 54R-millimeter weapon designed to support infantry on the battlefield. Kalashnikov Concern?—?which absorbed Dragunov maker Izhevsk in 2013?—?claims the SVK “was designed with input from active duty snipers of several Russian Special Forces units.”
There was little more exotic in the old gun brochures you’d send away for as a kid, than the scoped Dragunovs with their quasi-IR-scopes which the AK importers always left for the backs of their catalogs. Amazingly enough I think the new model’s style is even more tingle-inducing.
It is a good time to be able to buy black rifles, but a bad time to be facing an economic Apocalypse, because you know your money is best spent elsewhere.
Real me shoot 7.62x54r. .223/5.56 is a great choice for teenage girls to shoot.
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I’ve always loved the Dragunov – but they are INCREDIBLY expensive to buy. Not sure why that’s the case.
New rifle is beautiful and they are developing one for NATO 7.62 too, but one good thing with 7.62x54r is that cost per round is relatively cheap. You can buy a spam can and i think they’re still coming in around 25 cents per round, which is fantastic in this category.