I’d love a military/firearm historian to chime in on this, but I think you could make it work with technology at the time.
So the cartridge is four parts: case, bullet, propellant, and primer.
Cases can be reused and the machining for new ones isn’t terribly difficult.
Bullets are dead simple to cast out of lead, just gotta clean your barrel more often.
Smokeless powder won’t be commercially available but if you could send a couple telegrams to a few scientists, you’d have it ready in no time. You could probably just use black powder but you might have malfunctions.
I think the primers would be the toughest part, the tech existed but they weren’t widely used. Percussion caps would be really available, so you might be able to make them fit in an AK cartridge. They definitely wouldn’t be reliable, but neither is surplus AK ammo today.
Idk, I’m stoned and I like time travel hypotheticals lol
I’d love a military/firearm historian to chime in on this, but I think you could make it work with technology at the time.
So the cartridge is four parts: case, bullet, propellant, and primer.
Cases can be reused and the machining for new ones isn’t terribly difficult.
Bullets are dead simple to cast out of lead, just gotta clean your barrel more often.
Smokeless powder won’t be commercially available but if you could send a couple telegrams to a few scientists, you’d have it ready in no time. You could probably just use black powder but you might have malfunctions.
I think the primers would be the toughest part, the tech existed but they weren’t widely used. Percussion caps would be really available, so you might be able to make them fit in an AK cartridge. They definitely wouldn’t be reliable, but neither is surplus AK ammo today.
Idk, I’m stoned and I like time travel hypotheticals lol