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A.K. Best is a production fly tyer, fly fisher, and angling writer.He was born in 1933 in Iowa and now lives in Colorado.He wrote for angling magazines like Fly Rod and Reel, Fly Fisherman, and Mid-Atlantic Fly Fishing Guide, and published several books on fly tying and fishing.
The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.It was buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown.
Gems & Gemology claims fordite "was first collected at Ford Motor Company in Michigan in the 1940s." [6] The colors were initially dark and muted neutrals, [6] though they still consisted of swirling patterns. [7] The colorful acrylic lacquers of the 1950s and 1960s caused fordite to appear "in bright metallic colors."
Notably, while the pattern would imply that the AK-100 series rifle chambered for 5.45x39mm would be the AK-105, and that the 5.45 carbine would be the AK-106, the AK-105 designation skipped the 100 series 5.45 rifle (that already existed as the 74M,) and went straight to the 5.45 carbine.
The rifle can also use a fixed wooden or synthetic buttstock designed for AKM or AK-74 rifles. Both the upper and lower handguard and pistol grip are fabricated from bakelite, although a limited number of Tantal-specific black polymer handguards and pistol grips have also been produced.
Splinter pattern camouflage is a military camouflage pattern consisting of polygons. Splittermuster (German for splinter-pattern) was developed by Germany in the late 1920s. Splittermuster was issued to practically all Wehrmacht units. The pattern consists of a disruptive pattern of hard-edged polygons, with sharp corners between coloured patches.
The SA-85 is an AK-pattern rifle made by Fegyver És Gépgyár (F.E.G.) of Hungary.It was sold in a "sporting" configuration to get around U.S. gun laws at the time. It was also imported into the United States [where?] pre-ban [which?] in two variants, a solid thumbhole style stock and a underfolder stock that folded under the rifle.
The RK 62 was designed in 1957–1962 by a Valmet engineer Lauri Oksanen [3] and is based on the Polish licensed version of the Soviet AK-47 design. The RK 62 uses the same 7.62×39mm cartridge as the AK-47. Between 1965 and 1994 350,000 M62 rifles were produced jointly by Valmet and Sako.