In response to some very virulent comments over the years, this video rather proves that point that the bolt throw on a rear locking rifle can be shorter than on a front-locking rifle, aside from a couple of exceptional cases...
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Yup, and they have the same anti-prerotation thing done in the same way too.
02:18 Something about Bishops & Actresses is required ... sorry 😎
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This showed the M1 Garand influence on the AK bolt pretty clearly. Lockup is very similar even thought the bolts are quite different.