Disarming an AK-47 with legs - GIF

**Jon** · Mar 22, 2020, 01:53 PM

Disarming an AK-47 with legs. Works 100% of the time in the GIF.

Previously:

Reloading an AK-47 with one arm - GIF
AK-47 built from a shovel - images

**old kodger** · Mar 23, 2020, 08:24 PM

just one small problem (I'm happy to stand corrected), there's one up the spout, and the finger is faster than the second foot.

**greyhoundollie** · Mar 24, 2020, 12:07 AM

Does AK 47 fire from "Bolt Open" position? There my not be one shell in the chamber if that is the case. Think Thompson Sub machine gun.

**owen moore** · Mar 24, 2020, 01:54 AM

Dazzle your opponent with fancy foot work!

**old kodger** · Mar 24, 2020, 04:46 AM

It looked to me as though the second foot retracted the bolt, ie. first foot detaches the magazine second foot sets the bolt back, so it might fire with a closed bolt.
ak47 expert please?

**RetiredFAE** · Mar 24, 2020, 07:29 PM

AK47 fires from a closed bolt.
He'd have to hit the mag release with the first kick then hit the bolt handle to eject a chambered round, and he'd probably get a buttstroke to the chin or a muzzle jab to the belly before he got this to work.

USMC 1964 to 1994, own a number of AKs, gunsmith, multiple black belts, and I don't think I could do it, doesn't mean it can't be done, just that I personally doubt it without the cooperation of the gent holding the AK. His feet are not that fast, and his kicks are rather clumsy.

**Moby Duck** · Mar 28, 2020, 09:09 PM

Agree real AK47 fires from a closed bolt, but some of the commercial ones, sold in New Zealand as AK47, fired from an open bolt and we’re semi auto only.

**RetiredFAE** · Mar 29, 2020, 12:14 PM

Interesting variation of the AK47 there in New Zealand, thanks!

I wonder why they chose to make it fire from an open bolt on a semi auto. The original civilian semi auto Uzi carbines were set up that way, to look more like the real Uzi subgun, and the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco , Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) here decided they were too easily converted to full auto fire, so they had to be registered.
The later semi auto Uzi's fire from a closed bolt. The full auto AK47's I have, and faced in Viet Nam, and the semi auto versions (AKS really, not true AK47's) fire from a closed bolt, they have enough bolt mass and chamber mass to absorb and bleed off the heat from sustained firing so that a cook off (accidental discharge caused by a build up of heat in the chamber and bolt face causing the primer to ignite, and occasionally ignite the powder charge ahead of the primer ignition) is / was pretty rare. Many belt fed machine guns and some mag fed subguns are open bolt firing for that reason. The HK MP5 I used as a Federal Agent after leaving the USMC fires from a closed bolt, not prone to cook offs. Firing from a closed bolt usually results in greater accuracy for a subgun, as the bolt slamming home to fire on an open bolt model can drive the sights off the target.