Thread:DalesRV/@comment-40060194-20190716080228/@comment-40060194-20190716084052

It is possible that the original design was indeed made before the war. Many "bullpup Kalash" weapons exist, such as the Ukrainian "Vepr" or Groza OC-14, which uses a different ammo, but otherwise it's essentially a bullpup Kalashnikov-style rifle. :D Perhaps this weapon was a further development of some of these. You are right that the crude welding might be from the repairs - maybe somebody needed to completely take it apart, as this gun doesn't seem to have any easy way of removing the top of the receiver, unlike the traditional Kalash (which is actually weird, but who knows what the designer was thinking. :D )

Maybe the "crudeness" of the weapon is a result of some post-war modifications, which were supposed to make it more reliable, or maybe some parts had to be swapped out as the original parts had broken down, and the survivors had no more original parts left, so they modified some Kalash parts instead. :D Who knows. Even the diary entry doesn't provide a clear answer.

I would rewrite that part to be more speculative and to incorporate both options, such as "The origins of the Bulldog most likely predate the Great War, but the look of the weapon suggests it was modified or extensively repaired with whatever spare parts were available after the war." or something like that. :D What do you think about that? :D