You can still get a good, relatively cheap AK, but you have to be very careful. Canted front sight posts, cracking gas levers, loose selectors, tight selectors, random full auto, you name it. Then I started buying Wasrs and Gps and good lord my shooting buddies have had 74s that wouldn't stabilize anything, I have seen gas tubes just come loose etc. My second was a ban-era Hungarian FEG AKM, which was awesome (and I had it converted by Jim fuller and I sold it like a DUMBASS). My first AK was a ban-era Mak 90, which was awesome. I have been burned, BAD by QC issues in the past. The AK12 design, if it ever gets off the ground, seems to have finally fixed this by putting it on the other side and pushing the handle forward.Ĥ. Like the selector, the bolt lever is positioned so that right handed folks have to perform one of a few fairly goofy maneuvers to charge the bolt. The charging/ bolt handle is awkwardly positioned for most folks. But this thing is yucky, even by comparison to other barely post ww2 designs like the Cetme and straight-up garbage compared to the AR.ģ. Krebs came out with a lever with a shelf that helps a bit. The selector switch on the AK is on the right side and requires a fairly awkward maneuver for anybody not equipped with wookie hands. RS Regulate mounts and the like are apparently pretty good these days, but you still end up with a contraption clamped to the side of your gun with a series of screws and locktite holding your optics over the barrel.Ģ. It worked pretty decent, but it meant your dot was going to be waaaaay forward which limits just how sloppy your head position can be when using it (which is one of the red-dots greatest features in my mind). Back when I was heavily into Aks about 10 years ago I really liked the Ultimak, but it was basically a gas tube held stable by screwed on metal half rings attached to the barrel. The AK's top cover design means you will not be able to mount an optic to the top cover without having a wandering zero. At the very top of the list for me is the lack of elegant optics mounting solutions. I will add to the list as points are made.ġ. Just real concerns (and even ones that have been addressed by the aftermarket). I want to assemble a list of legitimate (not necessarily universally accepted) issues and complaints about the AK system.
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