What AK do you guys use?
Review with pictures
A
question we get many times daily is "What AK do you guys use?"
I'll
go first.. Lately I
use a Romanian G kit built on a Ewbank
Receiver by Chris
Horn in Flagstaff, AZ I have it made up to look like a
German (sort of) with German AK47 wood forends, and a
German side folding stock. I use a standard slant break, made in
the US by Chris
Horn. It's got some US parts to
keep it 922r complaint. I choose the Receiver, Gas piston, three
trigger parts, slant break, and to be extra safe I use US made
followers and floor plates in my mags. This puts me well into
the required 5 or 6 parts and let's me use the cool looking German
furniture and cheap steel magazine bodies.
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This
AK47 is designed to be a fighting gun, however I use it for
training and I plan to use it in a competition to see how I can
do with it. I've made a few modifications to it. I've shaved
down many of the sharp edges (I still wear gloves with it though)
I added an extended charging handle. And modified the rear sight
and the sling
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This
AK47 bolt carrier handle (charging handle) can be a finger biter,
so I use a time tested and highly elaborate modification,
I put
a spent casing on the handle. It is a tight fit,
and needs to be hammered on, but makes charging the AK a piece
of cake. Plus it looks cool.
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The
rear sights are a weak link for the AK, I modified the
rear sight to a large round area which I line up with the
front sight to make a quick easy to acquire sight
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To
feed the AK, I have been testing a Chinese chest rig, slightly modified
to be a shoulder bag. This is designed to be a simple bag
that can be thrown over the shoulder with the basic supplies
needed in a fight. Ammo, first aid, and a knife Here's
a full review of this Improvised Bug out Bag
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This
AK47 uses two standard (Romanian?) slings. I am big and
need more than one standard sling, so I use two, threaded together,
which are very strong, easy to manipulate and cheap.
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I shoot
ARs also, but you have to respect a gun that can take abuse like this
and work flawlessly. The only time these things really only stop
working when they run out of ammo. When they do fail it's
easy to get
them running again, and if they break, parts are cheap and easy to
fix in many cases
Much
of this gear was
purchased at
Tucson Guns
Tucson
Guns & Western
Artifacts
8556 E. Broadway
520-722-6886
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