Photo - Dragunov Bounty: NRA National Firearms Museum Featured Gun

[AnimeFanatic5602]

I started a petition to make the civilian version (the Tigr) importable again, but it's been slow going so far. Check out my channel if you're interested; I made a video about it a while back.

[MrMilfhunter2003]

a ak-47 with a longer barrel and same gas operating and bolt carrier system

[MrAwsomeshot]

@MrMilfhunter2003 that is incorrect. SVD has an adjustable gas system and is probably closer to an FAL with a short stroke piston whereas the ak has a one piece piston/bolt carrier. Common misconception that the SVD is just a long barreled AK. They have some common ascetics but are very different rifles.

[DaytonaRoadster]

@MrMilfhunter2003 no, thats is the Romanian PSL, this has a short stroke piston system that is unique to this series of rifles

[ShvettiBalls]

Would this even be classified as a video?

[NFMCurator]

@ShvettiBalls We didn't think so, which is why it's named "Photo". These are the first vids the museum posted on youtube. They're just pans of a pic with the info in the text. Oddly enough they seem to still get views and a number of likes, so we leave them up. We hope to improve them a bit in the future by adding voice over narration, but I'm open to the idea that they should just be taken down. - Jim Supica

[saamun]

@NFMCurator I personally extremely like these videos which are just photographs with music.

[NFMCurator]

@saamun We appreciate the feedback, thanks! - Jim

[mikeb1444]

@NFMCurator

It's a nice clear picture of a gun that's as nice as the day it was made, I don't see a problem. It's always nice to see how equipment changes over time.

[NFMCurator]

@ralph08ralph Yep. The earliest National Firearms Museum videos on YouTube are exactly that. A photo of a gun with music in the background, and the actual info on the gun in the print text with the vid. I've tried to give viewers a heads-up about what they're getting by putting "Photo" in the title, and we hope to add voice over narration in the future. Even so, I have mixed feelings about whether we should leave these up or pull them. There are nearly 200 other vids up now. -- Jim Supica

[silvermediastudio]

@NFMCurator I'd say pull them. Detracts from the rest of the channel.

[keesurt]

@NFMCurator please leave them up, these videos got me into historical firearms!

[NFMCurator]

@keesurt Thanks keesurt! That's exactly what we were hoping! Current plan is to leave them up, and to add a voice over narration when we get a chance to. The NRA video guru is swamped right now. - Jim

[20jman20]

In russia gun shoot you

[ayellerbird]

Yeah, it lookes nice. But its cheap, and don't work too great. (for what it is) I'd take a Barret 50 cal over this, any day.

[SpeedbeetleV2]

@ayellerbird because a .50 BMG is just as practical as a 7.62x54 right?

[ayellerbird]

@SpeedbeetleV2 Never said that friend; but Im not fighting a war with it; and the people in the U.S. who are, still have better guns. (Still a nice weapon though)

[SpeedbeetleV2]

@ayellerbird Oh. Well hell yeah I'd pick a BMG if I were going into a war

[Anounulisly]

@ayellerbird Anyone who calls it a "Barret 50 cal" will probably never have the opportunity to shoot one.

[ayellerbird]

@Anounulisly um.. alright?

[tommyv331992]

@Anounulisly who calls this a Barret 50cal? even 6-year-old COD gamers know this is not a Barret 50cal...

[Anounulisly]

@tommyv331992 I know right? my pet peeve is children who think they know shit about guns because they play call of duty or halo

[tommyv331992]

@Anounulisly it was until i played COD for the first time i showed INTEREST in weaponry and war history, which i think is a respectable approach. other kids think they can slip through life knowing just the names of guns or calling any AK-47 without its buttstock an AK 74u. the world today is just sad.

[Anounulisly]

@tommyv331992 agreed. I was at a museum in washington dc a few years ago and there was an mp40 hanging on the wall, and there where these little kids standing there staring at it, then one of them mentioned something about extended mags and telescopic sights. Call of duty is pretty accurate with its stuff, but not completely.

[ShvettiBalls]

@ayellerbird The Barret m82? First of all, this gun is built tough like the ak47, but its accurate and its not cheap, a decent price you could get on a real one nowadays is around $9,000. Yes a .50 cal is best for sniping two miles away, but when you have to choose between weight and compatibility you'd want something smaller (at least for shorter distances). Sorry for the lecture, just felt like trolling today.

[esh325]

whats the song called?

[5feeve]

so sexy

[ForImperium]

Gun porn.

[USDragunov]

That's a Chinese copy of the Soviet/Russian SVD....called the NDM-86.

[0puest0]

oh shit, so hot ...

[SashaVedernikov]

Mosin Nagant sniper variant is more accurate and reliable the the SVD,In the Soviet Afghan war as well in the Chechen wars many many Russian snipers went to the front armed with Mosin sniper rifles over the SVD. Bottom line - SVD is a designated marksmans rifle,Scoped Mosin is a snipers rifle!

[airrune31]

damn i love dragunovs

[glich150]

@airrune31 best sniper know to man

[deathsassistant1]

you all bask in the amazing weaponry of my country

[video1see1]

@deathsassistant1 i really hope your russian, cuz if your not your a dumbass

[deathsassistant1]

@video1see1 i am indeed russian. why would i say that if i was not russian!

[video1see1]

@deathsassistant1 ok calm down people call them selves russias when they see such a great gun like this one to make themself look better then they actually are.

[jamesfett]

@deathsassistant1 israel got way better gunz

[ipodplaya]

@jamesfett Israel invented the Tavor 21st Century Assault Rifle.

OF COURSE THEY ARE BETTER! :D

[stridingshadow]

@ipodplaya Much said. The Tavor is simply a polymer made bullpup version of the AK-47.

[Dmajorproductions]

@deathsassistant1 well, we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms and a beatiful country, i guess we will call it even ;)

[silvermediastudio]

@deathsassistant1 It's certainly unique.. not sure it's amazing.

[gandhicakes]

If the US was willing to pay $20,000 for one of these rifles, I wonder what they paid to get their hands on MiGs or a Hind...

[hvuu]

That was then....in 1960, like in Vietnam War in 63..

I think the germans where the first one on semi DMR, if not the I guess russians with the SVT40

[thecombatmaster]

are you saying they gave $20K to a guy to bring a dragunov to the USA back then? russians made the first semi designated marksman rifle.

[Last1Left2324]

No for this perticular model with the infered scope and the unusual skelotonized stock regular svd's are a dime a dozen