5.56 Zastava AKs are here.

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Wow! Didn’t even know these were in the pipeline. I like that it has the 1.5mm receiver. My only gripe is the lack of a cleaning rod. Would also like to see them offered with the normal magwell to accept the M85 magazines or Tapco’s copy of them. Obviously the AR magwell is going to be a much better seller for the general market, however.

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I think you can take that adapter out and use the orginal Yugo M85 magazines. http://www.apexgunparts.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/265x265/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/y/u/yugo_m85_magazine_223.jpg

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You can’t use M85 mags. Before the adapter is installed they cut the front trunnion. The part they cut is needed for the M85 mags to lock in.

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That was my understanding as well. Once you go AR with them, you can’t go back.

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I’ll be getting one of these for sure. Still have a couple of M90A kits that I need to build. One is an underfolder and I purchased a fixed stock rear trunnion and buttstock for the other. I guess Century beat me to it. Century dumping the M85/M90 magazines on the market cheap a year or so ago was a big clue that no more “proper” magazine well rifles (or pistols) will be imported.

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Here’s a picture of the Century M90NP that I just purchased versus an M95A front half.

They are pretty close, but here are some differences:

  1. Magazine: M90NP uses AR15 magazines via a permanently installed magazine well adapter. M95A uses proprietary Yugo 5.56x45 magazines (that are of excellent quality).
  2. Furniture: Wood for the M95A versus plastic for the M90NP. The M95A’s came with underfolding buttstocks.
  3. Barrel: They’re just profiled different for whatever reason. The M95A barrels are chrome lined while the M90NP barrels are not.
  4. Carrier: M95A carrier has lightening holes drilled in the rear while the M90NP carrier does not. There is also a minor machining difference at the rear.
  5. Muzzle Device: M95A has a bird cage flash hider while the M90NP has a Century installed slant brake.
  6. Front Trunnion: Minor machining differences.
  7. Optics Rail: The M90NP has a PAP optics rail while the M95A kits didn’t come with an optics rail
  8. Finish: The M95A’s are blued versus whatever the black finish is that the M90NP has.
  9. Bayonet: The M95A can accept one while the M90NP can’t.

FYI: The M95A and M90A are the exact same rifle as far as I can tell other than the model designation. The A is said to denote that it’s an underfolder.

The M90NP appears to be very well built. I was skeptical of the idea of a plastic AR15 magazine well, but it looks solid.

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The non-chromed barrel was the deal killer for me. I have some military rifles without chrome lined barrels, M1 etc. but I just prefer chrome. I wished they would have left the trunnion alone so we could use the issue mag as well. Oh well looks like Century saved me some money again that I can use to buy more ammo.

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Bret,

Thanks for the overview, definitely thinking about picking one of these up. How difficult would it be to replace that slant muzzle break with something else?

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Push in the detent, unscrew and then screw on the one you like. Easy as pie. I put the flash hider from the parts kit (shown above) and it screwed on just fine.

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Thanks! That’s perfect.

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5.56 AKs just don’t make a lot of sense to me.

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I shot my M90NP at an indoor range today. The ammo used was 130rds of Federal XM193 55gr FMJ. The magazines used were a clear 30rd Lancer L5AWM, a 30rd CProducts GI type, two 20rd Magpul Gen 2’s and a 30rd windowed Magpul Gen 2. The rifle was 100% reliable with cases ejecting with plenty of velocity. I had the gas setting on two, so I’m confident that I can adjust it next time to use less gas. I would have this time, but I would have burned the snot out of myself in the process. This is the first 5.56x45 chambered AK that I have ever fired which didn’t mess up the spent brass. They all look perfect with no damage. After making adjustments, the front sight is apparently canted from the factory. It’s beyond me why Zastava can’t get that right 100% of the time, but I’ll fix it myself. The plastic magazine well worked great. The only negative about it was that the magazines wouldn’t drop free. The best part is that the accuracy was great. I’m definitely going to get some sort of optic on this one because it appears to be a tack driver. If you’re on the fence about this one, you need to pull the trigger.

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They’re awesome to shoot, and you have the fun of firing an AK combined with a chambering that won’t ever be impacted by import regulations. Thinking about picking one of these up to accompany my WASR-3.

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Anyone with this actual rifle know of the threading of the muzzle? Would like to get one and run it suppressed. Any help would be golden.

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It’s the same as used on the Yugo M70’s which I believe is M14x1LH.