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AK and AR => AK Family: Saiga, MAK, Vepr, WASR, Zastava, etc. => Topic started by: AK shooter on May 09, 2015, 07:54:50 PM
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My AIMS 74, the reciever needs paint. I have been saying I was going to paint it for over a year.
(http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/AKshooter_photo/20150430_191946.jpg) (http://s540.photobucket.com/user/AKshooter_photo/media/20150430_191946.jpg.html)
One of my Khyber pass rifles.
(http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/AKshooter_photo/a81116b6.jpg) (http://s540.photobucket.com/user/AKshooter_photo/media/a81116b6.jpg.html)
I will post a few more later.
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Nice. Thanks for sharing.
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Very cool! AK-74 are hard to find these days if you don't want an Arsenal, VEPR, or a used one from GB. I can only find one or two others for sale under $700.
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Very cool! AK-74 are hard to find these days if you don't want an Arsenal, VEPR, or a used one from GB. I can only find one or two others for sale under $700.
If I were going to buy a complete 74 it would be a factory built gun. They hold their value better that kit built with US made barrels and recievers.
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Nice! I want one… I always look at the ak's but never make the leap…
John Galt
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Nice! I want one… I always look at the ak's but never make the leap…
John Galt
The WASR is a good rifle to start with. Check out Atlantic firearms.
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I recommend a WASR for both novice and experienced. They are just as good as an expensive factory AK.
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Noice. shooting1
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I recommend a WASR for both novice and experienced. They are just as good as an expensive factory AK.
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The new generation of WASR is just fantastic!
Here are my AKs... before I changed out the grips.
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d10/foster-dog/Saiga0956_zps0c81a782.jpg)
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d10/foster-dog/WASR_0865_zps1c8ce3fa.jpg)
Added....
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d10/foster-dog/WW-DDI-0127_zpsk7wutibs.jpg)
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I recommend a WASR for both novice and experienced. They are just as good as an expensive factory AK.
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The new generation of WASR is just fantastic!
Here are my AKs... before I changed out the grips.
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d10/foster-dog/Saiga0956_zps0c81a782.jpg)
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d10/foster-dog/WASR_0865_zps1c8ce3fa.jpg)
Nice rifles. Looks like that siaga needs a little front end work. Here is my Egyptian.
(http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/AKshooter_photo/20150210_100751.jpg) (http://s540.photobucket.com/user/AKshooter_photo/media/20150210_100751.jpg.html)
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Nice thumb1 Cool Kyber look
I recommend a WASR for both novice and experienced. They are just as good as an expensive factory AK.
I feel left out of the WASR department :-[, but, I do have a Romanian Ak :)
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/C13mechanic/HPIM0780_zps4924199f.jpg) (http://s1016.photobucket.com/user/C13mechanic/media/HPIM0780_zps4924199f.jpg.html)
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VERY nice AK, do you shoot the Khyber pass carbine?
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VERY nice AK, do you shoot the Khyber pass carbine?
I shoot all of them. tommy1
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VERY nice AK, do you shoot the Khyber pass carbine?
I shoot all of them. tommy1
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Ak Shooter,
that an RML?
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Ak Shooter,
that an RML?
No, it is kit built. Non matching Arabic marked kit with romanian barrel and Nodak reciever. All my AK'S are kit built except the Draco.
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nice collection everyone. thumb1
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Nice thumb1 Cool Kyber look
I recommend a WASR for both novice and experienced. They are just as good as an expensive factory AK.
I feel left out of the WASR department :-[, but, I do have a Romanian Ak :)
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/C13mechanic/HPIM0780_zps4924199f.jpg) (http://s1016.photobucket.com/user/C13mechanic/media/HPIM0780_zps4924199f.jpg.html)
AK shooter, great looking AK's! Thanks for sharing!
Okay GM, that's a nice Romy Kalashnikov!
firstchoice
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This is probably my favorite.
(http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/AKshooter_photo/20150517_194504.jpg) (http://s540.photobucket.com/user/AKshooter_photo/media/20150517_194504.jpg.html)
(http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/AKshooter_photo/20150517_194347.jpg) (http://s540.photobucket.com/user/AKshooter_photo/media/20150517_194347.jpg.html)
(http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/AKshooter_photo/20150517_194334.jpg) (http://s540.photobucket.com/user/AKshooter_photo/media/20150517_194334.jpg.html)
(http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/AKshooter_photo/20150517_194423.jpg) (http://s540.photobucket.com/user/AKshooter_photo/media/20150517_194423.jpg.html)
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I feel left out of the WASR department :-[, but, I do have a Romanian Ak :)
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/C13mechanic/HPIM0780_zps4924199f.jpg) (http://s1016.photobucket.com/user/C13mechanic/media/HPIM0780_zps4924199f.jpg.html)
drool2
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Nice rifles. Looks like that siaga needs a little front end work. Here is my Egyptian.
(http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/AKshooter_photo/20150210_100751.jpg) (http://s540.photobucket.com/user/AKshooter_photo/media/20150210_100751.jpg.html)
I love Maadis. I had a RML 20" barrel. I wish I still had it :(
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::)Question? why would I want to spend all that money on AKs when my SKS is fitted with a Promag 40 round magazine and and goes bang every time I squeeze the trigger, but I have only been fooling with weapons for 65 years so what do I know? wink1,jj59
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Something different, same ammo. I agree that both are cool. However, a WASR used to cost about the same as a refurb Russian SKS so why not?
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::)Question? why would I want to spend all that money on AKs when my SKS is fitted with a Promag 40 round magazine and and goes bang every time I squeeze the trigger, but I have only been fooling with weapons for 65 years so what do I know? wink1,jj59
Different strokes for different folks, why use my right and when the left works just fine. Why buy a PPS in 9mm when my Suomi with a bunch of 72rd drums goes bang, why buy a Saiga 12 when my Auto 5 goes bang, no clue but I did, why buy a M47 Madsen when my M1 Garand goes bang, no clue, but I bought 2 of them.
Who cares why, the real question is, why not? Cause I can... thumb1 rofl2
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(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d10/foster-dog/Saiga0956_zps0c81a782.jpg)
Nice rifles. Looks like that siaga needs a little front end work. Here is my Egyptian.
Just curious why some believe that every AK must have a muzzle device. The same folks would not believe a 7.62x39 SKS or VEPR must have a muzzle device. Same caliber. My money. My Saigas.
Remember that these are all clones, not actual AKMs. Historical 'accuracy' is optional.
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Just curious why some believe that every AK must have a muzzle device. The same folks would not believe a 7.62x39 SKS or VEPR must have a muzzle device. Same caliber. My money. My Saigas.
Remember that these are all clones, not actual AKMs. Historical 'accuracy' is optional.
The AKs pictured in this thread are clones but if you have enough money to play and in a state that permits Class III weapons, you can have true AK.
Regarding the compensator question. I don't believe that every AK should have a compensator but certainly some do as you mentioned. All the ones I own are correct for the actual military production timeline, be it a muzzle nut or compensator.
The AKM is entirely different than the weapons you mention. The compensator was designed to assist in the control of automatic fire. The device in angled and canted slightly to the right and designed to divert escaping gas from a fired round, assisting the operator in keeping the barrel from climbing upward and to the right. The compensator was probably the only effective measure introduced in production in order to improve the stability of the system during automatic firing.
There were numerous other suggestions; even the most favorable complex combination did not provide an increase of efficiency to the level of the requirements. Despite the adoption by the army, the accuracy was an outstanding open issue. At the end of the 1950s and into the 1960s, design offices, research organizations, and industrial and military ministries looked for ways to improve the accuracy, especially in the framework of the existing structure of an automaton while maintaining its fundamental constructive scheme.
A large volume of fundamental research to verify the influence of multiple factors on accuracy was underway. Specifications of weapons, affecting its stability in automatic mode (the rate of fire, speed, automation, dwell time of moving parts) were reexamined, with several possible solutions that I won’t go into here. Of all the proven interventions the most effective was the use of a small-sized muzzle compensator open type with a compensation pulse of the order of 0.03 kg/s, at an angle of 30 degrees vertically down-right, in the direction opposite to the direction of the angular movement of arms.
Compensators of this type were developed at the Institute of SS Rozanov and at the Izhevsk factory and they provided improved accuracy of fire from a standing position by approximately 2.5 times. After some refinement the muzzle compensator of this type was introduced into production.
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Neat info Bunker! thumb1
I think sometimes we forget that 99% of the AKs we get to play with in the states are bubba'd and simply not how they were originally intended to operate. I know I do.
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I like the Romanian AIM rifles (Civil Guard) as these were originally built in semi-auto only...
(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k239/jjjxlr8/IMG_2543_zpstyttcezj.jpg)