Red-Stick wants to see the gun before giving me a price. :rolleyes: Sorry, but i’m not going to pay to ship my gun off just to find out i’m possibly not interested in doing business with them. I don’t doubt the quality of work, it’s just that I want to know what I’m buying before I ship the gun.
Fuller has a defined menu of two different upgrades for a MAK-90. One upgrade includes replacing the furniture with US made components. Thats fine … but I want to know if it’s wood, polymer, pistol grip, thumbhole stock? It would be nice if he would just return my e-mail.
Hence my frustration, and the purpose of this thread.
Ok. I’ll have to retrieve the gun from it’s present location and bring it home so I can get some pics of it. I wasn’t aware there were several variations. I thought a MAK-90 was a MAK-90.
I will get pics as soon as I can and post them in this thread.
Mak90’s are great rifles. I have converted a few over the years and they are my preferred base rifle for a 7.62 build. My ‘serious’ 7.62 AK’s are all Chinese.
The Mak has a few nuances different than other rifles, but they are still pretty easy to work on. Like Templar said, post some pictures up and let us know what your end goal is, you may be able to do it all yourself.
Take off the thumbhole stock and post pics of the side of the ass-end. Plenty of people that can help on here. You may not need to send it anyplace. AK’s aren’t hard to work on yourself.
Yup. Basically an AK-47 on a stamped receiver and not an AKM. Nice 1.5mm receivers on em’ too. So long as it’s not a B-West soft receiver import, it should be good to go.
The rifle is over at my fathers house, so I have no way of looking at it until this weekend. It’s been probably 5-6 years since I even laid eyes on it.
I bought the gun on impulse back around 1995-96, and I remember shooting the crap out of it back then. Probably not a bad impulse buy at $250… even back then.
I just recently got back into AK’s (actually, I have a very bad case of BRD in general, right now), and although I never forgot about that MAK90, I have finally got it into my head that I need to do something with that rifle while I’m still hyped up enough to do so.
The original thumbhole stock got jettisoned into the dumpster not long after I bought it. It had to have been the ugliest thing I had ever laid eyes on, that was attached to a gun. Currently, it has a POS polymer ‘draganov’ (sp) stock and foregrip on it that I found at a gun show. It isn’t pretty, but at that time, anything was better than that tree trunk that came on it.
(By the way… I got in touch with Jim Fuller.
I sent him a PM through another forum and he responded rather quickly and answered all my questions. :D) … I digress.
Anyway, I will go visit pop’s this weekend and get the gun. Then I can post pics and hopefully get some more of your opinions.
If you were able to put a Dragunov style stock on it more than likely it is a straight cut, stamped receiver. That makes stock selection and conversion quite easy. The Mak receivers are a bit thicker than most stamped, so some material removal is probably in store, but a file and some patience is all that takes.
Muzzle devices are another factor, as some Mak’s are turned down at the front of the barrel making threading difficult. You have a few options here, just depends on where you want to end up.
Other than furniture and a muzzle device, I would toss in a Tapco G2 trigger (simple drop in) and your choice of optic (Ultimak/Aimpoint T1 is my preferred combo).
After that, you’re pretty much good to go. Again, all depends on your goals with the rifle.
Thanks for any help.
