• ODT Gun Show & Swap Meet - May 4, 2024! - Click here for info

The longest running project .... the PKM

sovietak474u

Default rank 5000+ posts
My honor is loyalty
380   0
Joined
May 19, 2010
Messages
34,147
Reaction score
5,975
Location
Ciudad Juárez , Mexico
so ... I have wanted this project to happen for a long time . If it was not one thing in the way it was something else . Today the final piece came in and all was finished .

Ever since I was a kid eating his boogers.... Ive wanted a PKM . I wanted one the minute I saw it for the first time . Unfortunately there are 1 maybe 2 transferable ones so that was a no can do. So , semi auto is all that’s left . Even that is no simple task.

Marcolmar firearms made 250 . A few builders here and there made them. That’s it . Back years ago these sold for $5,500. Today you are looking at $10,000. That is ridiculous but it’s like machine guns ... supply and demand costs . PkM parts kits sell for $4,000+ (yes just a chopped up one) . That being said , This was a royal pain the ass but it was worth it in the end.

The PKM is a general purpose machine gun . General purpose machine guns are designed to fill several roles all in one package. This is by far the most popular and reliable GPMG imo. I like the mg42 and vz59 but nothing beats a PKM . No more talking . Let’s see the smut !

7732397D-337C-46FB-8013-68A9872EC982.jpeg

7662A5BA-E098-4A49-A326-B025E1C9C5C5.jpeg

8F17E251-A693-4088-AF42-8497E6495F46.jpeg

07441874-EF35-47C0-B266-C4688D8B0BEB.jpeg
 
Yeah and even semi I know that’s gunna be one hungry setup to feed! Congrats again on a unique piece and on a side note I don’t know what it is but those Pkm buttstocks look awesome to me
 
Yeah and even semi I know that’s gunna be one hungry setup to feed! Congrats again on a unique piece and on a side note I don’t know what it is but those Pkm buttstocks look awesome to me
I like the stock too. Holds a cleaning kit of course and also an extra brush up top. Normally that bar is not in the middle but it’s required so the semi auto functions properly
 
The PKM and 6T5 tripod weigh 12 kg (26.46 lb). The tripod mount, designed by L. V. Stepanov for the PKM machine gun entered service in 1969 and weighs 4.5 kg (9.92 lb)

(the MG3 which is a modern MG42 weighs 60 lbs with tripod and the SG-43 weighs 96 lbs with its carriage)

So only weighing 27lbs is amazingly light
 
Back
Top Bottom