AK-74 Meltdown!
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Moving along in the Meltdown series we take a VEPR 5.45x39mm rifle converted by Definitive Arms to the breaking point. Lets see what happens...
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In the future, 8888's back yard will be considered a viable lead/copper strip mine.
Yep and when its found they will not know it was an ancient battle or not :)
@@tbrowniscool they'll think WW3 happened in his back yard
lol
You should show the spent casing area where all of the cartridges you spend land, just to show how much, I dunno, I always like seeing stuff like that, anyone else?
yep
Yeah if you're going to shoot that much ammo you might as well do some ballistic testing as well.
Have different materials and see what survive after 800 rds.
hell yeah
J. Bravo Obviously he wouldn't stand two feet in front of a concrete wall and shoot it.
yea me too
Next melt down rifle, Good old G3 :) (if your shoulder holds up that long)
+Max Schmidt lol, plus literal thousands of dollars of ammo.
At least the mags are cheap!
please God yes
helll yeaaaaaa!!!!!
my prediction on a G3 meltdown is failure to exctract or the barrel pops. Doubt the gun will explode in your face or take of one of your arms. at worst, it will kick out the magazine
SKS melt-down would be cool, I know a lot of us have em and would like to see how they stack up.
Yeoman there’s automatic SKS rifles out there ;)
daniel noyes there are absolutely auto sks out there
I guarantee you that 3 fast fired 10 shot stripper clips will make the fore end too hot to hold.
@@TheDustysix have tried it ..nope still not overly hot to not be able to hold it
Can you do a mosin meltdown
Joseph Stalin -_-
What
stalin you are hilarious
Joseph Stalin no one's gonna watch a 6 hour long video.
They did a torture test but not a meltdown test
Also, that VEPR looked *very* controllable on full auto, especially given how you were one-handing it.
He doesn't look like a light man,he had it against his body and 5,45 doesn't really have that much recoil
Kids in afri.... nvm
Great demonstration by the way!
go on
XD
could've eaten that led
"Kids in Africa could have used this as Child Soldiers."
You guys do it better then anybody else. Period. Nowhere else can you find such awesome, down to earth information.
You should put some throat protection too! That area is totally exposed! Better safe than sorry!
when he said were gonna shoot the lil puppy til it stops I died a little inside
Rifle = puppy
M'aiq obviously but it still sounds messed up
Quick get this guy to his safe area!
Blame USA yeah quick before he makes another joke
Jeff Windle ok bb why you so tilted over a joke.
Your overall safety gear is fine, but for that one in a million chance of total explosive failure, wear some sort of neck guard, preferably like what Lacrosse goalie/hockey people wear but I guess normal Kevlar would be fine as well.
Ya the neck is an area people away over look for some reason. And i don't know why, since that is a vital area and one that can be more easily then most.
Ya no kidding. Just about every vital function of your body passes through your neck, and it doesnt have a skull to protect the important bits ;) One shell fragment from a failure is all it would take to slice a jugular.
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Idk about experience at oversee, and it would always suck to wear any sort of ballistic turtle neck guard as it's hot as hell, but personally, I've seen lots of smaller to pretty serious injuries from unprotected necks. From borderline crushed trachea to almost a severed neck/jugular. Shit happens just out of nowhere or the least time you expect it and it's scary how vulnerable the neck area is.
MikSIK.
Neck protection isn't hard to made, but making it in a way that doesn't make you hate it can be tricky. Since for example having the material too flexible is bad, yet improves comfort. You want it high collar, but doing so can reduce comfort and restrict head movement. Plus other shit like how close it's to the neck and the angle it's made at, also are concerns. All those things plus more, as you can imagine are a pain in the ass to do for shit that has to be one size fits all or is limited to a few sizes. It's only of those things that can be done but is annoying to get done, well get done right and cheaply.
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Yup exactly.
Interesting choice in stock
No it's a vepr which that the stock design on them
that is how they are imported
Due to import regulation, and 922R, to make the rifle not look like an "bad" rifle. This is the only way Molot can import the Veper into the US.
Merlot? You are telling me wine makers now make AK?
Life Style Yeah, that's what I meant. A wine colored stock...Vyatskie Polyany Machine Building Plant (MOLOT)
When you see the armor bastard in BF1 come towards you.
Bigga usually when I get the sentry class I get bayoneted in five seconds😂😂
I suspect that under normal conditions, the Wolf ammo lacquer wouldn't be melting and gumming up the works. Let the action cool down every 600 ( ! ) rounds or so, and I don't think you'll have that issue. Of course, it would then not be a meltdown.
Excellent video, very well done.
Lacquer isn't on cases anymore from what I understand
Wolf uses it as a sealant around primers. At least, the Wolf ammo I've seen does.
let me check the wolf ammo I have
Pretty sure the the problem is the sealant around the primers and not the lacquered cases themselves, they are two different things. Wolf's Mil-spec line (green box) is lacquered and sealed, just like 7n6.
When is the redo?
Good stuff; 74's are the best battle carbines on the planet. Feed them 7N6 all day!
you really think so? even better than the 47?
ravissary79 74>47 all day
SeaBlackH4WK in what way (other than being lighter and lower recoiling)
ravissary79 tumble early in soft tissue (cause more damage) and overstabilize on hard surface (penetrator)
ravissary79 there's no AK47. First AK is called AKM
*Stealth is optional"*
1:53
What happened to that "How far will a slug kill part two"? I'm still eagerly waiting for that one.
Thumbs up the comment...we are nearly complete with a new platform where we can shoot 600 yards at the farm, so that's what we are waiting on. 😎
Awesome! Can't wait to see that! On another note, remember the .22 confusion? How about a shot shell confusion? just an idea for new shotgun owners. Thanks so much for the content, super happy I found y'all a while back.
What if you get it at 600 yards? Will you go farther?
Coming soon...
muhawhawhawhaw. can't wait for that one. lol
I'd like to see the melt down but aim at some ar500 and see what it looks like after 1000 rounds
I loved how the bakelite mags contrasted the wood. Beautiful.
Besides the fact that you forgot to gaffer tape 2 magazines together in proper fashion to speed up the reloads, this is another great video.
The special meltdown is obviously gonna be a m107 Barrett Full auto😂
"Its worth it, its science!"
This is the best type of science :D
Can you chop off an SKS stock and throw on a bump fire than do a meltdown on it? it would be interesting to see an SKS reliability compared to an AK.
8:39 So I went to go read about the lacquer primer sealants (still learning about guns) and I found out that it's supposed to be a military thing because the sealant is meant to keep the primer sealed from water or mud getting in to cause a dud during combat (or just traversing through mud). Also, they don't really use sealant for civilian sold ammo because they just use it for sport shooting anyways, but apparently they could make a mess all over the front of the bolt like in the video.
.22 revolver meltdown
11:58 "It's science" Eric 2016 :)
To put it to rest, once and for all, you should do a mil spec m4, vs a mil spec ak. Heavy barrel, RPK receivers do not equal AK-74. Piston ARs do not equal M4.
These comments are cancer...
That would be great!
u couldn't said it better, 3AK videos vs 1AR video meltdowns.
ur correct brother my bad. but those r 2 different system for such a rifle. piston and gas tube.
I love both systems(AR/AK) don't get me wrong but if I had the $ for a higher quality AR to donate(which I don't). I bet the AR will last longer. besides it would be another cool video. lol
That's how russians replaced smoke grenades.
You can't compare this cheaps AK with Russian made Aks.
@@MoonlightVKV But the Molot Vepr series of AK's ARE high-quality Russian AKs.
Molot is known for making quality AK rifles, that are built off of the Russian RPK Light Machinegun, a family member of the original AKs.
@@molot_vepr_3089 It isn't Russian made you can clearly see it looking at it, this one it's a cheap copy cat Ak.
@@MoonlightVKV Are you sure? Just because the wood furniture is different doesn't mean that it's a copy cat. Molot Vepr AKs are made in Russia, with Russian RPK Receivers.
@@molot_vepr_3089 Except that they aren't, not because of the wood stock at all, there's no way that ak is made in Russia. Modern stock versions of Ak variants can stand more than 750 rounds easily and keep working without issues. I think that even kalashnikov showed a video of a 103 variant recently shooting more than 900 rounds without issues.
Eric has stepped his videos up several notches. I really miss Barry, and I think he was a huge key to this channel's success prior to him leaving the channel, then his passing. He was one cool dude, and brought the world cut shells as we know it.
Eric has really overcome the loss of his co-host, and not only continued making videos, he's gone over the top, what most other channels don't do, and provided hours and hours of entertainment, stuff that living in a 2a commie state, I could only dream of being able to do. Congrats Eric, on not only 1.2 mill subs, but on overcoming the loss of a co-host and excelling with a fantastic channel.. I think you have 2x as many people who watch you now than CNN and MSNBC lol. Happy New Years my friend.
11:59 -"Its science, so we need to know." -Awesome lol
Where's the Thermal Cam..? These vids are always awesome, keep them coming.
instead of melting a weapon.. why not just send it to me?
Because, depending on whether or not you're a Class 3 dealer, this weapon would be illegal for you to own.
Then you and they would be locked up ! LOL.
he wants to melt it let him do it
You don't have to be a class 3 dealer, just need a $200 tax stamp.
Because if he just gave it to you, he wouldn't be able to produce the content that he's producing -_-
"" it's science ""
how come I never had this class when I was in school?
it'd been one I wouldn't have cut.
Not only is this my favorite gun channel but I think it might make it to one of the most subscribed to gun channels on UA-cam I wish all the best of luck and please keep making great infotainment
"think it like an engine that run on ammo as fuel"
Best analogy ever....period.
It sounds exactly like movie machine gun sound effects 😮
It did have a very nice sound to it.
you got me fucked up now lol
Well seeing as how sound designers record real sounds to use when mixing a film, its not that surprising.
Yeah, this guy uses a good microphone, most people use mics from their cameras or phones which make guns sound like paintball guns.
his mask reminded me of the purge
How about running an AK74 build set to Russian military rifle spec for your second test? As the barrel will be thinner, it will be interesting to see when this one fails. I know these tests are entertainment, but Im actually curious how a Soviet mil spec gun will run, not a gun with a thicker machine gun barrel. An AK will probably run 80K rounds until receiver failure if we mount a water jacket on it like Vickers machine guns used to have.
As an example Arsenal Bulgaria lists the typical lifespan of their 16" barreled 5.56 and 7.62x39 rifles as 15,000 rounds of mixed semi and auto fire. Even with an obscene amount of cooling, they're just not going to last that long.
There is a really cool thread on AR15.com I reccomend you check out. Basically the owner of Battlefield Vegas lists his experiences of his rental guns out there, how long they last, breakage etc. There are seperate threads for AR's AK's and others. He lists that stamped AK receivers last about 80K rounds then start cracking. AR15 receivers last forever. Regarding barrel life he pretty much quotes 25 yard full auto fire so rifle range accuracy is not important here. They check if headspace is safe and carry on. Pretty much applies to this type of test where accuracy doesn't matter as long as the machine keeps running.
I think he did an AK-74u 700 burst a while ago (the weapon didn't break, it started to smoke and was set on fire, so he trowed it in water)
So that's where all the 5.45 went
I wish you were still doing meltdown videos. I'd like to see what a Zastava ZPAP M92 would do. LOVED watching the AK-47s and AR15s, firing while on fire!
What a beautiful AK .
Этот "Вепрь" изготовлен в городе Сент-Питерсберг, в штате Флорида, США, о чём имеется соответствующая надпись на боку аппарата: «definitive arms llc st. petersburg fl».
Таймкод → 0:27
По сути - это охотничье ружьё и не предназначено для продолжительной стрельбы очередями ☻
Привет с ЯПа :)
Affirmativsky
Это информация о импортëре. Это Вятский Вепрь и отличается от автомата/пулемëта только охотничим прикладом и цевьëм.
the Vepr's are the best made AK's made period.
Wrong
jacob untitled prove it
Love your meltdown videos! You're the one who convinced me to buy my Vepr 7.62x39 after I saw that meltdown video. Looking forward to Part II with the AK-74! It will be interesting to see how many more rounds the original AK-74 takes plus the "new" one you promise to test with non-laquered ammo!
And this is why I bought a Vepr in x39. Of course it's not full auto but same rifle otherwise. Even had the rails, carrier and trigger polished up nicely making it smooth as butter.
Where can I get that mask?
Face shield
www.ebay.com/itm/New-Ballistic-Bullet-Proof-Face-mask-3A-level-/191970946252?hash=item2cb25c2ccc:g:9jMAAOxyQ45Q~gzu
Its called a Ballistic Face Mask, and it comes in level IIIA for the vast majority of the time
bulgarian mags, wtf man Im bulgarian and I never knew that we make ak mags, wtf?
Emil Petkov You guys made 3 kinds, one in black, brown and fire brick. They are good quality mags, just as good as the Russian ones. My AK74 is Bulgarian made.
I've also been to Bulgaria. Nice country.
SushiEmil Petkov Since Bulgaria makes its own AKs, stands to reason they'd make their own magazines too :)
You should look up arsenal akm'
same and same
one man army
Awesome work! Now if I just find a VEPR I could afford! I met Chad and Eric at a suppressor shoot, Chad let me dump a mag out of his AR Glock carbine, made my day! Awesome guys!
Just want to say thanks for this. I have this rifle, but have yet to fire it.
God bless America and God bless the Dallas Cowboys!
automatic glock meltdown would be interesting to say the least.
Emphasis on melt.
he already did that
Yeah. He's done it.
Minigun Meltdown? :3c
"its a lot of money but I guess I'll do it for you guys"
Of course you will. You are making some pretty damn good money off of youtube ads.
Are you high? I didn't get 1 ad.
You dont always get an ad... Click around on some of his videos and you will periodically get one. He decides the frequency they appear and how much money he wants to make. Are you high? I sure am.
The furniture and the heavy barrel on that AK just make me happy.
Some science projects are hard to watch 😭 Such a beautiful firearm.
Totally lasted far longer than any M16 that I have ever seen ! WOW
Mayor Fuglycool
How many M16 have you ever seen?
Technically, this "AK 74" with a RPK receiver + Heavy barrel stopped before the M4 carbine with a lightweight stainless steel barrel did.
Both around 800 - 900 rounds. Same with the 7.62x39 VEPR
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Well, this is not an AK-74, it is actually a VEPR 5.45. I wonder if the true AK-74 would last longer ?
Mayor Fuglycool
Umm, the M4 EXPLODED, the AK had its firing pin jammed by melting lacquer because the chamber got so hot the lacquer melted off when the rounds were being chambered, I think there is a difference there.
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Maybe, the cold hammer forged barrels are stronger than just about anything you get on an AR, Im not sure what the AR equivalent would be or if it even exits but it does come standard on the Russian AKs, both Saiga and Vepr.
can you put regular ak handguards on these?
Only after you cut off some of the wood or plastic AK 47 hand guards.
The Vepr have thicker barrels and the arch half circle on the inside of the standard AK top hand guard is too fat to fit it on a vepr.
You would need to Dremel those support arch down a little on the top cover hand-guard
You would need to buy AK 47 gas tube because Vepr gas tube does not have top cover holds.
Then you need to buy a Hand-guard retainer for the lower hand-guard to keep the lower in place.
That why most people like Saiga AK and parts kits because they use standard AK parts.
Vepr are heavy duty AK with everything made stronger and thicker so you would need to mod and buy adapter to use AK furniture because of the thicker barrel.
Logic...
You can. You need to replace the gas tube with a standard AK gas tube that has upper handguard retainers. As far as the lower handguard you can either buy a bolt on handguard retainer or you can remove the front sight post and gas block, add a handguard retainer (maybe an RPK one to fit the heavy barrel?), then press the gas block and front sight post back on. You can use a standard AK stock as well by adding a slant receiver adapter and a longer pistol grip screw.
Guy, try to finde original ak in afica it will be have more durability
Руслан степанов great English
Original AK in Africa? I'm pretty sure that is not possible, as it was first made in Russia.
I know it was 4 years ago and all the meltdown vids combined isn't even a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things....but man all that ammo gone in minutes.
UA-cam puts "applause" and "music" whenever he unloads a mag. I'd say that is an accurate description haha
799 rounds before failure
S&w m&p sport ii shot 860 ends before failure
@PasoFreak didn't you hear him say that it was the ammunitions fault and not the guns. So why do you compare it with the ar 15.
He did another video with the same gun and it went 700 rounds more. Thats a total of 1500 rounds.
Not two weapons are the same. Not even two aks would perform the same.
I want another Romanian PSL review!!!
You've got it! This time out to 600 yards!
Do I even have to worry about overheating my semi auto AK?
nah
nope
Juan Guerrero gotta love it yessir I do
Can you wrap bacon around the barrel? I'm silly...
Tasha Cook someone did that. look around, you will find the video.
Konrad Ford Yes bro....maybe one of my kinfolk
I noticed the evolution of your safety equipment has increased since the first melt down video.
Muzzle rifling erosion is due to the barrel being cleaned from the muzzle end numerous times. If the barrel is cleaned from the rear then the cleaning rod does not usually effect the muzzle bore greatly. This is why you need to use bore guides on guns that that you have to clean from the muzzle. i have a Stoner 63A commando barrel that no longer has any rifling in it but it wore form the chamber throat to the muzzle with the muzzle having the last bit of rifling before the bullets all started tumbling. Another area of wear is gas port size, this is why many barrel have to be replaced when the gas port gets too large and the cyclic rate increases enough to cause malfunctions.
melt down a Sig 516
716*
Yet another gun that failed with fewer rounds than a Glock, right? ;)
It's also firing full auto, dumping 40 round mags, unlike the glock.
+Alexander Moffitt the glock was full auto in the video he's speaking of
how can anyone compare a plastic handgun to a fullsize rifle? tf
Alexander, you must've not seen the glock video....he had drum clips, and it was full auto.
glocks are reliable. that's all they got going for them. also we will see after part 2 with comparable ammo
FN FAL MELTDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I own that exact gun minus the third trigger pin. Literally, the softest recoil impulse you could ever imagine just a phenomenal rifle.
None of the M16-A-1's during my 28+ years Military Service would have fired to anywhere near as long as that VEPR AK-74. Ammunition, and not the weapon was the cause of the stoppage.
Sks meltdown !
Hey! Kids in Africa could've eaten those bullets!
Who wants to buy me a case of 7.62x54r for a Mosin meltdown :) ?
you'll need more then a case believe me.
why is that?
I would like to see a PKM Meltdown
By the time you bolt the thing, it's going to cool down enough to not actually have a problem. This is in full auto, which is why it's having issues.
+VeraceSzK nah ak's grt hot really fast. after about a mag the barrel is too hot to touch for a good 10 minutes
Any VEPR is on my grail gun list. They're so damn nice.
i always listen to these at double speed. its cool to hear the fire rate doubled.
You should do it when it's starting to get dark so we can see the long gun glow. You get a better visual understanding what the guns going through.
So fun to watch thanks to all who help this man. Hello from Cali no bug clips around these ranges but there around I'm sure lol
Got my vepr 23inch 7.62x54r with SVD stock and grips added... it's amazing.
My wife loves here Vepr 74, soft easy shooting with no recoil and easy to operate
8888's backyard must be similar as the intro of _Lord of War_ 😂
awsome ....i love the 74 i mean the 7.62x39 is the ultimate round ..but once i got into ar's i learned to love the 74 and appreciate it ... any ways dude ia awesome and ill never forgot the chopped down mosin has to be my favorite weapon ive seen thus far....
you post so many excellent, informative videos on all sorts of firearms, but these are some of the most fun to watch. a tech specs video on a Lamborghini is quality stuff, but a video of a lambo blowing donuts til a connecting rod snaps will make anyone grin lol. i can appreciate the time & money these videos cost you, and i love the diversity of your channel. keep doing what you do sir. dont change a thing.
As much as I love the AK platform, I don't feel bad watching these meltdown vids because, ya know, they're for science.
Anyone else get more and more anxious as the round count gets higher and higher? Im just waiting for the magazine to explode in his hand.
For the next round, have a few spare BCGs and a bucket of acetone to clean the fouled ones tagged out. Just log when you switch BCGs so we'll all know when they failed while the rest of the gun can keep running hot!
Every time this guy puts a mag in the gun is like the first time he's ever put a mag in a gun.
I love the VEPRs....not sure if I'm proud or sad..
These are the best video's on UA-cam! Big promises for the next video, but i belive in you! Thank you for spreading the love to the wole world!
A random archeologist In 2277 : "there must be a great war here"
Highly entertaining and horribly depressing at the same time. What a sweet rifle!
After the major forend smoke gets going, I just want to see Chad walk up from the side, in the middle of a mag dump, with a plate. As soon as the mag is done, he just takes a slice of bacon off the plate, lays it on top of the barrel, and waits.
A rifle that lays it's own smoke screen, nice!
this is the real life equivalent of camping at the ammo bags in a game
Can't wait to see the revisit 5.45 video. Really enjoy your vids!!
The Ak-74 I use on BF4 works great, it just kept running like a sawing machine!!! Lol I think I ran 2-3k rounds thru it one day, non stop and it held up... Lmao just fucking with ya'll!
Nice vid, thanks for producing and testing out these different rifles for everyone to see how real life is and there endurance factor! Can't wait for the next vid!
that checkered hand guard was gorgeous. hated to see it smoke
That much lead flying, it reminded me of Black Hawk Down.
Thanks you for the video. I always enjoy your videos. Keep up the excellent work! !!!!!
I know it was not in this video, perhaps it was in the .22 Confusion video. You and ?? were talking about the 220 PPC i.e. 5.45x39 "poison bullet". Very accurate, tumbles like crazy in gel.
Sir, If I may, of all the different rounds out there 1) which one's tumble the most in gel? 2) Which one's come apart the most in gel? 3) Can you use small caliber ammo on bear? Say, a 600+ black bear.
Incredible weapon, the AK WEAPONS SYSTEM. You can't beat it.