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Originally Posted by Fritz
...who takes the rear sights of the AKs and flips them up before taking the pictures for Centerfiresystems.com?
It isn't on all of them, but it is done on quite a few.
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The photographer is from Liberia and served in the rebel militia before he migrated to the US at the end of the most recent civil war.
In Africa, it is well known that raising the rear sight on an AK increases the power of the cartridge. Naturally, everyone wants maximum power, so the sight is always moved to the vertical position.