Can you fire a 5.56 round through a 7.62 AK? 

Brandon Herrera: "There is a disturbance in the Force."

Remember folks, just because you can, doesn't mean you should!

First Daddy Garand and Mojo show us we can shoot SIG magazines from a Glock, now Ziga shows us we can shoot 5.56 out of a 7.62 AK. God bless the internet!

Ziga is turning into a most excellent presenter.

I feel like I should do accuracy for this

NEVER do that with a muzzle brake. The un-stabilized projectile could strike it.

Inside the 7.62 mag: there's an impostor, _among us_

Myth Busters: Slavic edition

"The bolt goes forward. The weapon has fired."

Throwing the 5.56 hotdog down the 7.62 hallway

Russia: making multi caliber rifle without need to swap barrell and bolt!

The AK bolt carrier is actually a brilliant design which prevents rounds from firing out of battery. The firing pin isn’t even reachable by the hammer unless it’s in battery... how genius.

"throwing a sausage down the hallway" took a new meaning.

This feels like 50% shitpost and 50% educational

HE GONNA BREAK... THE UNIVERSE...

Hmmm this just happened

Next, "Can you fire a .22 Hornet round through an 5.56 AR?"...

Will it AK? Atleast 1/3 of the time!

2:02 would make a great gif :D

3:50 WAY LESS RECOIL! HACKER...

I can confirm. Brought my friend who's a gun n00b to the range and he put a 223 round in the mag lmao

"Ес ит вил! Си ю сун!", фраза которая сделала мой день!

Hahaha, hearing pičke matterine got me. I used to have a Serbian friend and he says it with the same tone.

Warzone players : "Hey i've seen this one"

This is how I'm going to create brass for my 300blk from now on

5:37 sounds like the scientist screaming in Half Life

It's actually amazing to see just how much that brass deformed without a rupture. On top of that it looks uniform like it actually sealed up a good bit. Nice!

Arizona native here, love that you're repping an AZ Firearms shirt lol

My dad was in Army of the Republic of Vietnam from 1972-1975. He fought the Viet Cong from the North. Yes, During the war, When it come to the comparison between AK and M16.He told me that the Viet Cong used 556 rounds in AK47 in emergency need of ammo. It is one of the downside of M16.

"Vil it AK?, Yes it Vil!" (Soviet anthem in the background)

Yes you can... and we did, but not voluntarily. About 30 years ago, me and my friends went to an empty field that we usually went for target practice. We would usually have our ammo loosely in separate ammo cans. We each had several platforms that fired 5.56 & 7.62X39 and we would usually reload our mags in between breaks and while the rifles cooled off. My friend grabbed his Hungarian preband AK and started shooting at some targets placed across this swamped field @ approximately 40 yds. or so.. Half way through his mag a round went off, but it's report was different. As we're looking down field, we noticed a projectile landing approximately 20 yds in front of us, skipping throughout the swamp and then realized that the firearm had a failure. We tried pulling the charging handle back, but it was stuck like Chuck. We tried your typical butt/bump charging technique against the floor several times until the bolt broke loose but, the bolt stripped off the cartridge. The cartridge was still stuck in the chamber, so we pulled the cleaning rod out, pushed it through the muzzle end and wacked it with a rock. The cartridge finally popped out, at that exact moment, we realized that it was a 5.56 casing. The brass cartridge, actually expanded to the contours of the 7.62 X 39 chamber upon detonation, with some visible stressed points but it never cracked nor ruptured. We later figured that we might of dropped a 5.56 round into the 7.62 ammo box and that the skipping splashes in the swamp was probably the bullet. We inspected the bore, thinking that the smaller caliber round might have fouled or possibly damaged it but everything looked find. We tested it with a single round then later ran a couple of mags with no issues nor failures. Gotta love them AKs....

I'm glad the lack of bore-fit kept the pressure low. Had that been a 5.45 chamber (and it somehow fully chambered) I imagine the case head would have easily separated.

0:28 There is 1 impostor among us

It would have been interesting if you had shot through a chronograph to measure the muzzle velocity of the 5.56 round to see what level of performance degradation the lack of pressure caused

Reminds me of the time I learned that you can shoot .40 S&W through a .45 ACP.

I love these random test and the out takes you guys never disappoint 😁🙂thanks and can't wait to see more

Now try to reload that deformed 5.56 case with a 7.62 ball and see if it still works in the ak.

2:30 the beauty of slovenian language never seizes to amaze

That's a fun way to play russian roulette with an ak platform.

I believe having a supportive team at 2:30 made this video a 100 times better.

I’ve actually done it with a steel case 223 it’ll split the side of that case but in my example it fired an I hit the target a a light mortar pulled it right out

So, you are saying I can fire form 223 brass to fit my AK for reloading, great👍🎉

Like how when it fails to cycle the 3rd shot, he just looks at the gun like “huh, 3 more shots than I expected”

I love the bloopers at the end :-)

You wanna live really dangerously trying loading 5.56 into a 5.45 AK or vice versa.

Favorit part : 2:37 "pička mu materina"

I mixed my ammo once and did the exact same thing, exact same shap of the shell casing lol

I have done this...once.

A 5.45 in a 5.56 rifle would blow the whole bolt off, tho. It happened to a Sig550.

Love the accent 😂😂💙🇺🇸

This was a topic of discussion way back in the 1980’s US Army. Soldiers proclaimed this as if it were some amazing revelation that our rifles were somehow worse than AKs because AKs would fire 5.56. As if the scenario was ever really going to play out that the Soviets were going to win WWIII by capturing 5.56 and use it in their AKs.

Watching this from Denmark - where I will never own a gun or get to get into a situation like this, I still like the knowledge! :D

3:04 *are you sure?*

Wake up with this vídeo!

Now you got me curious about 300 Blackout in a 7.62 AK. The bullet diameters are roughly the same, so I assume pressures would be completely different and potentially dangerous.

I cant be the only one who wants a mosin opperator vid..like the mp40 opp 😂

Never fire any caliber out of any gun that it is not chambered for.

Stay safe, don't pay taxes!

"I am goin to Brazil " I don't know if it was a joke, but we sent you a big arm !!

You are a madman Ziga! Love you guys!

If you've reached the point in a fight where you have to fire 5.56 rounds out of your AK, then you've also reached the point where hiding behind a wall and using your AK as a club is an equally viable option, lol

I follow you guys for a few years now and your videos always brightened my day. However, I would've never thought you would present us with such an abomination that passes as a thumbnail. I'm highly disappointed in you. The red arrow needs to be waaay thicker. Also no emotes at all? Seriously?! You need at least two shocked and one crying of laughter emotes before you can call yourself a real RU-vid channel. Step up your game!

Can confirm, just tested it with my PSA GF3. Hopefully the improper head spacing won’t have caused any major damage.

You see, the AK can do almost anything including becoming your multi tool

short answer, no, a 556 round will not fire in a 7.62 weapon, totally different caliber and you run the risk of injuring yourself and possibly damaging/destroying weapon.

Before i watch, yes u can, cuz the round is smaller.

I love The metal gear solid sound effects haven't heard those in almost 2 decades

You've got balls doing this whilst holding it.

Greetings from Turkey! Good video, thank you! :D

Next: "Can you fire a .300 Blackout in a 7.62 AK?"

“On the turd try” lol My wife is from Poland. She says it the same way. I laugh every time.

I did this when I let my brother load a mag... Steel case ballooned up and split open and the bullet skipped out of the barrel and maybe went 15 meters. Good times.

This test was actually performed over 35 years ago on a video entitled "Rifle Combat" by Gossier Arms. The test was to disprove that the NVA were using captured 5.56mm in their AK rifles. The 5.56 rounds would not stay in the mag, the round was forced into the chamber, fired and the neck ruptured. The projectile hit a water jug @ 15m and barely penetrated the plastic. I had a copy of this video on VHS but it deteriorated. Anybody else see this video?

He seemed to be more surprised when it didn't fire, just like he predicted...

getting hit by a tumbling round at close range would probably be one of the worst things a human being could experience x3

Finally! An answer to the question I never asked!

Great video. This is why we Love AK.

You an also shoot .40S&W through 10mm, although it relies on the extractor to hold round in place for firing pin strike, and it doesn't headspace on the front of the case.

I love to know the answer to questions I never made.

"Will it AK"? Is this a hint of an uncoming collab with brandon?

This makes me feel more safe. Because i had a 7.62 in my 545 box before and this just jammes the gun. But i was always afraid that the inverse could blow up my gun

Thank you for the video. After the 3rd (successful) attempt to shoot the 5.45mm it was interesting to scroll back and actually see the bolt not closing all the way on the two initial attempts.

I saw this happen at the range today. It loaded, chambered, and fired. The case ruptured and the projectile went somewhere. It scared the shit out of me and the guy shooting immediately put the gun down and backed up. Never seen that before

wow you pulled it off! I was worried you might strike the muzzle break

2:03 “when she asks me if i got it out in time”

It's fun to see non native English speakers cussing correctly. It shows an expert level of language skills.

I had this happen to me today 🙈 Took out my brand new Saiga MK103 to the range to sight it in and had someone else try it. They managed to mix up the ammo (we were also shooting my H&K MR223) and loaded a .223 and it actually fired on the first try. The casing split and was stuck in the chamber (not very tight, could be pulled out easily). The rifle obviously didn't cycle and there were loads of unburned powder and smoke. The projectile left the barrel and, as far as I can see from a simple visual inspection looking down the muzzle after cleaning (I don't have a bore scope), there was no damage to the rifling.

Can't think of the last time I saw 7.62x39 that wasn't steel cased. Thank God for the AK and cheap/surplus ammo.

The way he doesn’t say the point in 5.56 but does on 7.62

Makes sense that it smelled diff burning less the more volatile terpens didn’t get burnt off as much at the lower temp lol

Only a Slav can tell what round is being fired by the smell of the gunpowder lol

Haha, AZ firearms! Greetings from AZ. The store is 5 min down the road!

Almost zero recoil from that tiny round

Awesome test!

Fantastic video great editing earned my sub

The ak physically throws up when it chambers it and commits suicide also attempting to kill the user for such a betrayal tot he motherland

I always wondered this lol. MY yugo m70 underfolder after seeing my galil mags fit nicely with no issues

I always wondered about this... Thank god for ziga

My guy, that was stupid but you earned a new subscriber for having balls of steel. I applause that.

The " smell" being different comes from the different priming compounds.in the US most steel case import rounds "smell" our cheap walmart shotgun rounds. Whole high end milsurp will smell like premium handlod primers.