I bought this gun at a gun show during the Clinton years and as I was cleaning out my gun safe the other day I came across it. At the time I bought it, I didn’t know squat about AK’s and I still don’t know as much as I would like.
This thing seems pretty high quality and is very reliable. When I bought it they guy told me they mad high-cap mags for it…I spent the entire gun show looking for something that didn’t exist.
Can someone please give me some details on this gun? I like it even though it only holds ten rounds in each mag.
I don’t know if the receiver can be converted into a normal AK receiver to hold the normal mags or what. I was thinking I could use some of the parts to build a post-ban AK variant…if that’s possible.
Any and all info would surely help.
Thanks guys,
Dave
I paid $198 for it a long long time ago. Do you know how much it would cost to replace all the crap and mill out the receiver? I may just buy another one (hi-cap).
Raining, Pirate’s link will give you most of the low down on the rifle.
It’s the predecessor of the current Romanian WASR-10’s imported by Century Arms. They take the rifles as you have now, and open up the mag well, and replace just enough Romanian parts with US parts to make it legal.
I honestly don’t know what would be involved in remachining the mag well, you might have to machine the front trunnion, the steel block which holds the barrel and is riveted into the receiver shell. If you do, that might be kinda complicated, it’s hard steel and I don’t know the dimensions that you’d need to keep.
It would be easier to just buy a new AK. You can get very decent ones for under $500.00 ready to run.
You might want to post in the Build it Yourself section of www.akforum.net if you want to undertake converting it yourself. I know of guys who have done it on some of the Hungarian single stacks that came in, but again, I don’t know how involved a project you’re looking at.
I have seen some guys converting the lo-cap recievers Centerfire is selling now. I would guess that the trunnion is for a standard reciever and the reciever is just cut with a smaller mag well. Heck, I wouldn’t mind trying to open it up on a mill if it was mine.
As for building your own Akforum.net is a great resource with lots of friendly folks. I have built about a dozen ak’s so far. If you have patience you can build alot of rifle for little money.
It’s really easy to say “buy a new one”. I’ve only flipped one gun in my life and then felt bad about it. The fit and finish of the gun is great; the reliability is better. I want to keep the gun so I will seriously look into converting it…why even own a low-cap at this point?
Does anyone know if the importer is offering a conversion package similar to what armalite did with their post ban AR’s? If I could get away with putting $200 into the gun right now to make it a high-cap it would be alright with me.
This is probably a dumb question: are pistol grip/stock receivers different than the thumb-hole stock receivers(like mine)? For some reason I was always under the impression they could be switched very easily.
I’m not an AK guru.
I only bought one because I can shoot the piss out of it and never clean it…but then they start to grow on ya.
just buy your pistol grip and your choice of stock and slap them on…I’m not sure whether the thumbhole stock pistol grip screw (if it has one) will work w/ a regular pistol grip
but all you have to do is get the hardware and it’ll mount right up IIRC
