Andre Weissflog in Elk: "Heh, I think I fired a couple of bu..."

Heh, I think I fired a couple of bullets with this thing as a teenager (part of the from today's pov very questionably 'paramilitary training' in the East German school system) - it was literally just 5 minutes of 'here's the gun, there's the target, you have 3 shots' and that was it for the whole training lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgh4LUT8ZzE

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East Germany's Nice .22 AK Trainer: KK-Mpi-69

August 6, 2025 at 6:02:14 PM

Which rather defeats the purpose of accurately replicating the exterior and controls of the AKM.

tbh for the longest time I thought that I fired an actual AK, guess I didn't pay much attention back then ;)

...re 'replicating', I think they simply used existing parts of the East German AK which was built under license by Wieger:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger

...apparently those were of better build quality than the original AKs ;)