I picked up a Yugo Underfolder last week. I haven’t fired it yet, but it looks nice, other than the fore-end. I don’t really care much for the plastic, I prefer wood.
I prefer the wood myself, its easy to change out for a reasonable price.
Bill
yea, I have a set on order. They should be here anyday now.
I have 2 Yugo M70’s that are great shooters, and in my opinion, of all the AK variants out there, the Yugos are the best. One is fixed and the other is an underfolder and do not have chrome lined barrels. They are not Century built however, though I’ve heard good things about the Century built rifle from my FFL dealer–he has several.
A local FFL has 3 in stock. The one I saw today had a DCI receiver and looked very nice. The only negative comment I can make about it is that the handguard was a little loose. Everything else looked great. I may check out the other two and take the best of the three home with me.
Heres my best attempt to show my disappointments with Century’s Yugo underfolder…
Immediately when I picked up the rifle at my ffl, I played with the grenade sight like any kid with a new toy would, and to my dismay I found it to be extremely canted to the right, making it impossible to be useful.
Later that week, I found at the range that I needed to set the front sight windage as far left as possible, indicating that I now had a canted front sight post along with my gas block/grenade sight combo.
Finally, I realize due to the inherent design of the underfolding stock that it will have a little play after some time and use. Unfortunately for me, mine came with the slop from the factory. Compared to my buddies’ 6 year old Arsenal underfolder that sees frequent use running around Texas shooting hogs I would have thought my gun was the one that had been abused in the bush, not his. His locks up tighter with much less play than my NIB Century Yugo had.
What I really would like is a Yugo M70AB2 with a real blued finish as that of a gun coming fresh from the Zastava factory, and still retains the factory markings on the front trunnion as they were from the Zastava factory. Preferably one that has everything lined up, needing minimal adjustment from mechanical zero, and a underfolding stock that doesnt let me change from a 100m shot to 800m shot by pivoting the rifle up with the stock securely seated on my shoulder. If I could find someone to do the work I would probably send this rifle off to be fixed by a real professional gun builder, but most likely I will sell this rifle off to a co worker and use the money to complete my purchase of the Khyber Pass rifle I ordered over at theakforum. I really want to like this rifle, but it seems like a real hackjob compared to a lot of the rifles I have seen from Arsenal, Krebs, or some of the smaller, less known AK builders around the forums and gunbroker.
Here is what I got for $450 off of gunbroker, not too bad of a deal but the saying stays true, you get what you pay for.
With Century guns its always best to buy one in person where you can check them out fully before buying even if it costs you a few more bucks.
Don’t feel bad, mine is canted to the left. I was disappointed too, because it’s one of the first things I did when I got it home also…hehe. Plus the lower handguard isn’t straight either (it doesn’t line up flush with the wood of the upper handguard.)
PLUS they did a hack job on the front of my gas tube. I guess it wouldn’t fit, so they cut it, which would’ve been fine had they cut it straight and not crooked. I’m a perfectionist, so even little things that don’t effect the performance and/or function still bother me. 
Later that week, I found at the range that I needed to set the front sight windage as far left as possible, indicating that I now had a canted front sight post along with my gas block/grenade sight combo.
My front sight seems a little canted also, I’ve only shot it at about 30 yards and it was a few inches off (to the left), but I haven’t had the time to zero it in or shoot at further distances.
What I really would like is a Yugo M70AB2 with a real blued finish as that of a gun coming fresh from the Zastava factory, and still retains the factory markings on the front trunnion as they were from the Zastava factory.
I hear you, although I’d take the parkerizing over bluing from a durability/rust resistance standpoint. I was ticked too that my Zastava markings were removed; seems some people got lucky.
Mine is a fixed stock, and was (and technically still is) my first AK. So while I guess I can’t complain too much for the money, I was a bit disappointed; but I had done my research and knew what I was getting into. I’m looking to pick up possibly one of the new Arsenal SLR-107FRs, but I’ll wait on that for obvious reasons. I have a bugarian 74 kit being built now also.
Generally I agree with Shihan and prefer to buy locally so I can inspect, but no one around here seems to carry the things I want, and when they do they’re OVERPRICED. I wasn’t paying $600 for a Yugo, because that’s the local price at shops and gun shows. Mine was about $470 after shipping and transfer fee.
I went shopping for a fixed stock Yugo M70, and after picking up three different Yugo’s my dealer had in stock, I found one with a tight handguard. Thats the one I bought.
I took it out to the firing range and found it to be DEAD ON with the iron sights. I hate to say it, but I had to screw around with my Bushmaster’s sights more than I did my Century’s.
I had an issue with the magazine catch, but it was easily fixed. There was a bit too much metal on the edge of the catch, so the catch wouldn’t fully engage, causing the magazine to pop out after firing the first shot. I just lightly filed the catch to fix the problem.
I would recomend this gun to anyone looking for a first AK, I’ve been very happy. My only caution would be to buy locally so you can handpick yours.
Now I plan to find an underfolder to make a matching set.
After looking at AK’s for a little over a year trying to find the “right one” with the “right price,” I finally bought this yesterday:
I should be able to give a range report after today or maybe late this evening.
I picked up a M70 underfolder today at gun show. Has Zastava marking and appears new never fired Century buid on DCI receiver. 1st. AK, will take her to the range soon and report back…
BS4L…
I finally got a chance to shoot my new Yugo today along with another Yugo my shooting partner bought (same day I bought mine from the same dealer). Both guns have been very impressive so far. I was hoping for a quality Ak and it looks like I scored a very good one (as did my shooting buddy) for a decent price. Both rifles surprised us with their accuracy. We were both hitting the 150 meter gong with ease and were able to rapidly hammer the swinging A zone of a reactive 3/4 size IPSC steel target at 50 meters. He was using the stock sights, and I was using XS big dot sights that I installed prior to heading to the range.
Nothing is canted on these rifles. Not the front sight, gas block, rear sight… nothing.
However, both of these carbines had a tendency to whack us in the face with each shot. We both agreed it would be less painful to just puch each other in the face 30 times than continue shooting the rifles without modifying the stocks to fix the problem. A few minutes with a wood plane and a couple of strokes with some sand paper, and we were back to the firing line making steel targets dance.
David, you learned two things…
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AK’s aren’t as inaccurate as alot of people think.
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The fixed stock Yugo’s will slap the hell out of your cheek.
Glad you were able to modify them to be more comfortable. I’d like to find the guy who thought putting such a high comb on the stock was a good idea.
Enjoy your AK! 
Yugo after the surgery.
I bought a Century Yugo underfolder yesterday, and it didn’t have a DCI receiver, it had a Global Machine and Tool one. Still seems to be as thick as the DCI one on my other Yugo, just thought I’d mention it.
I couldn’t find anywhere on the gun a marking indicating Century had assembled it, I wonder if they had Global do a few builds, and if that affects anything else, like barrel type or fire control group.
The new underfolder did have the Zastava-Kragujevac engraved on the area below the rear sight, though. My other Century Yugo didn’t have that.
The sights looked fine, and the gas block and grenade launcher sight look ok. I’ll put up some pics whenever I find my camera.
ETA; after reading on (that other site, who’s name must not be mentioned), it appears that Global did more than just a few of these. I still haven’t ascertained whether this is good or bad, though. The one I got seems nice, too bad I wasn’t able to hit the range this morning. It’ll have to wait til next week I guess.
I still wouldn’t mind hearing from the AK gurus the difference between the(built-with-Global) and the (built-with-DCI) Century Yugos
pics
got wood now
I will refinish it a little later.