Re: AK-47 Operation Question

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Roger Stenning \(G1LIW\), on Wed, 17 Apr 2002 the word on the street was...

> The RPK, IIRC, is open bolt, though, as befits an MG.

Are you sure? I just looked in some books, and couldn't find a mention of the 
RPK being an open-bolt design, or even of it firing from an open bolt on full-
automatic but a closed bolt in single shot mode.

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