AK74n + [RPG Scope] PGO-7v to 500yds: Practical Accuracy

This episode was brought to you by Slate Black Industries. For M-LOK grips and accessories, visit slateblackindustries.com. Pretty simple, this is basically a handheld recoilless rocket launcher. Hit the side of the curb and kablooey, kablooey, kablooey, kablooey, kablooey. but the motherland will provide, huh? All right, 1-5-0. Are you going to slav squad the entire time? Yep. Oh my god. Ready? All right, 1-50. Okay, so I think first two shots are going to be a miss, so I need to know where I'm landing, so you know, you tell me, yeah? Oh yeah, sure, right on it. I see it, I see it. Okay. Just off the left. Impact! Just off the right. Just low. Just left. Impact. All right, look at you go. It only took you, like, half a mag. Okay, I can't slav squad. I'm obviously a western spy. Why don't we give old 200 a try, huh? Impact. My squad game is just not strong enough, Josh. All right, I'm on a 250. Impact. Just off the high right side. Impact. Okay. On to 300. Impact. Just left. Okay. Slightly high. High? It was slightly high and to the left, but your first shot was on. Impact. Okay. 350. Fire when ready. Impact. And this, kids. Let's go, Josh! So important to build a stable shooting position before you begin engaging targets. 400. Just left. Just right. Like, literally scraping it on the right. Short. Just off the right at three o'clock. Left. Impact. Just right. Three o'clock. I think that was just short at six o'clock. This is okay if you have more! There it is. Okay. All right, we're on it. 450. Hit. That was off. I saw a splash way left, but I don't know. Just go ahead and send one more. Impact. Okay. Dude. What? 500. Impact. Boom! Direct hit. Impact. The motherland provides, yet again. Maybe you shouldn't have been a doofus and tried to slav squat the first ones, and you would have actually put up a really good score. Yeah, honestly, I think that slav squat killed it in the very beginning. Yep. Although I should not have slav squatted in the beginning, and maybe my slav squat game is, you know, at the lower tier, because after all, I am not Slavic. Heels to the sky. I didn't have the stability initially, so I wasn't able to pin it as easily to get a stable platform. Yeah. I think that was my main issue. I think the longer distance targets were also easier to clear, because I had boresighted the scope to the 400 meter sights to mimic the Soviet 400 meter doctrine, so I could get the elevation easy. So it was actually harder to get the closer range targets, because my elevation was basically... Your reference point for aiming, you didn't know where it was. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But it's not impossible. Yeah. I mean, it's not ideal. Yeah. Obviously. I mean, we could do an entire segment, I suppose, on building a stable shooting position from a rest or a barricade. Sure. And the realities of the situation here is that you just shot an RPG scope on an AK and cleared 500 yards. Yeah. Lol. All right, guys, we'll see you all in the debrief. See you there. How I prepared this. I basically boresighted it to the 400 meter setting, which is pretty close to 450 yards. That's why 450 and 500 was so easy, because it's basically sighted for those distances. Anything under that, I would have to guess. So this configuration comes from a famous photo we'll put up of a couple of Soviet soldiers, and one of them has an RPG, a PGO scope strapped onto the side of his AK-74. And so one of our viewers, Big Dave, sent the PGO in and said, Hey, why don't you give it a go? And Josh goes like, This is all you, baby. And so stubbornly, we made it. Well, great success. So I don't know, there's just not a lot of information behind Soviet soldiers using it in Afghanistan. But this comes from that origination of that one particular photo. So my theory, and this is my theory, we saw, first of all, don't slop squat if you actually want to hit your target, because it's an unstable platform. Second of all, second thing that we learned is this is actually viable at hitting the 400 meter and 450 meter-ish type of targets. However, it was actually more difficult for me to hit close range targets, which I think would have been easy for me to hit with the iron sights. Yeah, so in other words, just have gone to the iron sights, use those out to say 250, 300, and then switch over to this for shooting at further distances. Now, so another aspect, look through with the iron sights. Your left eye sort of lands to where you can observe with the optics. Especially if I'm just kind of like generally like heads up. Yeah, like I'm kind of able to see through the optics, especially if I lose the hat. Yeah, so the other theory is that the Soviet soldiers were using these to observe their hits with iron sights. That's actually really, really smart. Yeah, which I mean, obviously, I didn't do because I was just, I know I could hit with the iron sights, no issue. I had you observing. The whole point today was to figure out how well just purely using the PGO scope would do. But I think a better way of employing it is to zero it at 400 meters. Use this as an observation device for a closer range target. So 100 meters all the way to 350 meters use iron sights. If you want to use your battle sights, you could sort of spot the impacts because then you could observe for yourself and adjust. And today, using standard 7.96 ammo, using an Ishmash Kalash 74. Yeah. Shared 500 with the most ridiculous looking setup ever. Yeah. Okay, so you just did a pretty decent job of actually outlining some practical purposes of why this might be a thing that was done. Those are theories. I don't know. But I think that you've outlined practical applications of them. With that said, with the supply chain, with your supply chain being not Soviet-era Afghanistan, would you ever be doing this versus putting any sort of better modern optic on there? I mean, I'd probably use one of those 2x prism optics from PA, because those are actually pretty good, say, just like a combat 400 meter and hidden optic. Yep. But I mean, no, I wouldn't use this in a practical sense. Got him. I got him. My work here is done. I mean, you've probably never shot an RPG, right? No, Henry, I have not. Have you shot a... Rockets perform differently from projectiles, i.e. if you're shooting in wind, right? Let's say the wind is cutting this way. Okay. With a rifle, you would aim to the left because you're trying to arc your projectile into the target. Yep. With a rocket, it's different because you actually aim in the direction of the wind. As the rocket flies out of the tube, it's still propelling itself. A projectile is not propelling itself anymore. Every ounce of energy that launches a projectile out has been expended. It's done as soon as it leaves the barrel, right. Right. So you have to arc it in order for it to hit. Okay. A rocket is different because the wind pushes on the fins of the rockets. Ah, interesting. And it's still propelling itself. So if the wind is pushing this way and you aim towards your left... You're going to go further left. The wind is going to push the fins of the rocket and it's still going to propel itself. So you aim into the direction of the wind. That's pretty wild. As far as RPG and rocket type of items. So the US military... I don't know what the Soviets do, but we have trainer rockets. And I think it's kind of stupid, quite frankly, because they shoot like a 9mm tracer out of them. And it doesn't perform the same way as a rocket. An actual live rocket. Interesting. But that's the thing. The RPG scope, you would also... If you look through it, you see a pair of double lines. I think that's 150 meters. At that point, the double lines are to designate that your hit ratio decreases by 50% onto the target. And by the way, your target is an M60 tank. So it's not a normal scope, as you would imagine. It's designed for a projectile that flies into the wind. It's designed for that particular rocket to hit a vehicle the size of a shipping container. The elevation adjustment is from the bottom. And the windage adjustment is still on the side. So yeah, it's not designed for a Kalashnikov. But can it be used on one? Well, apparently, yes. Apparently, yes. So if you ever find yourself in a situation where you need optical capability for your Kalashnikov that has a side rail, and you also are in possession of an RPG-7 optic... The Mazel Tov. You have yourself a solution. You're a certified Soviet sniper. Well, good run with this. I actually was surprised that you were able to clear it. I was even more surprised the groove that you sort of found as you were going out. Yeah, it was fun. This was one of the stranger combinations that I had a lot of fun. Cool. All right. Good run. Boom. Direct hit. Do you enjoy arguing with other viewers on the internet on which rifle performs better on practical accuracy? Well, we have a solution for you. Go to our Patreon page and scroll down. You'll find the practical accuracy scoreboard where we have ranked and compiled all the data of all the firearms we have tested on the practical accuracy course. Furthermore, it's already separated into the different categories so you can go back to your argument as quickly as possible. And whether you decide to support us via Patreon, subscription, or just a normal viewer, we thank you.