Post-Ban_AK-WASR 7.62x39 RIFLE w/ Folding Stock, Bayonet Lug, and Muzzle Break
Keith
Hi all,
Seeking feedback here on the Post-Ban Romanian WASR's as sold by SOG &
AIM surplus, if anyone has seen & handled one up close & personal.
AIM tells me they are Century Arms-reworks of the OEM, single-stack
receivers used in the Romanian AK low-cap. clones. They apparently
have some tooling setup whereby they can mill out the receiver,
ex-post facto, to accept the wide-body mag's for which they were
originally intended.
Supposedly the oft encountered less-than-vertical front sight tower is
history, since 2004! I hope so. They folding-stock supplied is a
unit made for TAPCO & is ~ 2" longer than the dink-export OEM-AK
stock, which is good for bigger white folks like me.
The scope mounting rail is still there & they said the barrel
compensator is NOT tack-welded on, so one can change to a Walter
Mitty-esque Krinkov type & pretend he/she has a selective-fire weapon.
Are these latest flavors qualitatively better than their earlier
ROM-AKs & other Century reworks in general? They seem to have had
poor quality control, judging from the Frankenstein-CETME's they
assembled in the recent past, which are apparently quite a gamble.
Some say their Rom-AK mag. Wells are finicky, others have had no
problems. The price still seems high for one of the roughest OEM-AK's
extant to begin with, let alone if it's boogered up stateside.
You thoughts or experiences? Please reply to news group. Share the
wealth.
Thank you.
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J.A.Freeman
Uncle Dodo
is a bit canted.
I believe they are brought in by Century as single stack mags and they open
them up to accept standard double stack like the 30 rounders.
I had to do a little bit of modification at the very rear of the mag well to
get the 30s to fit in as easily as the two 20s it came with. A couple of
minutes with a small file or a dremmel tool and all is fine.
Some have a lot of trigger slap upon rapid firing. This can be fixed also with
a bit of grinding. Some are quite smooth out of the box from what I hear.
Not as ggod of quality control as the MAK-90 (Norinco) I bought in 1998 but for
the money I think they are a good value. Prices seem to be going up on them.
There is a web page that I found that has tons of info on them including
excellent pics and tutorials on how to do all the fixes. I will try to find
the address for you.
Keith
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Bummer on the front sight. I wonder if this is a Romanian QC issue?
Seems like by now they'd get their act together.
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Check, according to AIM. Apparently it's illegal to import 'hi-cap'
capable receivers, or so they said. If this is the case, then do all
they Bulgarian AK's get re-worked stateside from 10x to 30x capacity
as well?
I asked AIM if perhaps Hungarian FEG's, ala SA-85M's, again might be
imported & given the required domestic reworking to make them legal,
but was told that the OEM receivers were still VERBOTEN, thus, only
the 10x-ROMAK's already here could be fiddled with, or would be, by an
importer.
I'm not sure about it, as I'd really like to know if Bulgarian AK
suffer from this same malady of opening up the mag well; some fly,
some don't.
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Good to know. I'm handy w/ metal.
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Apparently, we'll not be seeing new Norinco AK's anymore.
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Cool. I'd like to see that if you can dig it up. Still seems amazing
to me that w/ proper tooling & pride in workmanship, an outfit like
Century can't make them 100% reliable before distribution.
Thanks for posting, your info is most appreciated.
Keith D
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Turbinator
Interesting, thanks for the link. Got any ideas where to find
feedback, pics, advice, etc. on how to get the "conversion" going from
scratch? Say, if one owned a single stack AK, and wanted to make it
accept double stack mags..
Turby
Keith
# http://www.gunsnet.net/Linx310/wasrwell.htm
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Thanks for the link, J.A. It's an informative site. Thanks in advance
to all who reply.
K