charliesgrave;n5117 said:
charliesgrave;n5204 said:
Short answer = Eastern Europe and China have been producing them in mass for decades so all tooling, techniques, and parts supply are firmly established.DirtySCREW said:
Commbloc AK is built for use by the State and her people. There was no commercial market when they started.premise said:
This is what I want to do. Wanting to build a Khyber Pass model.Jeremy2171 said:
Awesome... now get them over to the pic thread, my Saiga is getting lonely -Jeremy2171 said:Here is mine...
^^^Exact reason for me tooAppKalash said:When asked, I tell people if they want an AK be patient because better options are around the corner, domestic or otherwise... mostly otherwise I hope, like more Saigas and/or Norincos
I voted PSA just because if I was hell bent to own an American AK right now I think it's the best offering. Their most recent model passed the AKOU 47-74 5K test. Knowing that they have addressed problems and improved in a short time frame shows much promise.
Hopefully they can ramp up production and get more in user's hands with solid parts availability at decent prices like with ARs. I think there is an untapped market here.
You listening PSA?!?!?
Not sure what you mean by "always felt cheap" but guess that's a topic for another thread.mazer said:Well, I have owned various makes soviet AK's and they always felt cheap....functioned fine accuracy was "as expected" but, I wanted to try a USA made rifle (yes double the price of a standard AK). I grabbed one of the Century Arms, which I realize have had their issues over the years, and my rifle was no exception, the barrel was canted, but t hey fixed it. Now it is one of the best shooting and definitely the most accurate AK's I've ever owned....that is with iron sights now....so I'm very happy with it. This won't ever wear a scope it feels good in my hands and doesn't feel like it will fly apart at the seams(none of mine ever did, but some felt very "rickety" ) when I shoot it!!
Well, yea, they rifles did feel cheap, that said, I didn't buy expensive AK's...didn't see the point ( I am certainly no expert on AK's)....mazer said:Well, I have owned various makes soviet AK's and they always felt cheap....functioned fine accuracy was "as expected" but, I wanted to try a USA made rifle (yes double the price of a standard AK). I grabbed one of the Century Arms, which I realize have had their issues over the years, and my rifle was no exception, the barrel was canted, but t hey fixed it. Now it is one of the best shooting and definitely the most accurate AK's I've ever owned....that is with iron sights now....so I'm very happy with it. This won't ever wear a scope it feels good in my hands and doesn't feel like it will fly apart at the seams(none of mine ever did, but some felt very "rickety" ) when I shoot it!!
50 rounds isn't really even enough to know if you have a good rifle. When you hit around 1,000 rounds, start taking note of your internals; bolt, trunnions, etc. and watch for wear. What's more, if you are planning on going that high with a C39, it would be in your best interest to keep a check on headspace. I don't know about the milled rifles as much, but there have been quite a few reports of Ras47's going kaboom due to headspace opening up. I know a lot of folks with your rifle have been replacing internals with Bulgarian parts to avoid such a fate.mazer said:Well, I have owned various makes soviet AK's and they always felt cheap....functioned fine accuracy was "as expected" but, I wanted to try a USA made rifle (yes double the price of a standard AK). I grabbed one of the Century Arms, which I realize have had their issues over the years, and my rifle was no exception, the barrel was canted, but t hey fixed it. Now it is one of the best shooting and definitely the most accurate AK's I've ever owned....that is with iron sights now....so I'm very happy with it. This won't ever wear a scope it feels good in my hands and doesn't feel like it will fly apart at the seams(none of mine ever did, but some felt very "rickety" ) when I shoot it!!
But can your Mattel rifle eat a ham sandwich?MikeDawg46L said:
Yea, I typed the direction in wrong in the thread. I do need to shoot that rifle....a lot! Well, the verbiage was in the written explanation from Century...I'd need to find the paperwork from them...maybe they were talking about canted "sights" then....but bottom line they fixed the rifle. Unfortunately I don't get to the range near as often as I'd like to, I have a pile of ammo for this rifle sitting in my ammo locker....guess time will tell. But it does shoot nice "NOW"AppKalash said:mazer - Are you the guy that pushed the front post the wrong way trying to zero that Century rifle?
AK barrels are pressed in place, no threading occurs. Canted sights are a common, if not overblown, problem with AKs but canted barrels... not so much. I've never actually heard the term used in fact.
Now barrel alignment can be a thing, like when it is not on the correct axis of rotation or I guess possibly if a barrel was pressed into the trunion crooked. By no means am I a builder so I have no idea how often something like described actually happens.
Canted sights can be relatively easily straightened, but barrel work is another thing.
I've never handled a Soviet AK, but the current factory Russian rifles are among the best of the sort made anywhere. The Izhmash factory that produces Saigas is the birthplace of the Kalashnikov rifle while the extremely nice Veprs are made in the Molot factory. I would argue that both of these factories produce their own style of rifles far better than the American importer and upstart manufacturer.
Seriously, I want to like an American AK better than any other but I'm not there yet. Hence this thread to see where other people stand on the subject. For that matter I had hoped to hear you had sent a couple thousand downrange with that rifle.
Is there a reason no one other than Crazy Yeager is reporting case after case of ammo successfully fired through their Century AK? I think maybe so
charliesgrave;n33038 said:
Yep.charliesgrave said:
You are welcome to visit my local range as a guest with me to send some lead through that rifle. Let me know... I'm always ready for another range day! I usually shoot steel targets so you can do mag dump after mag dump to you heart's content as the steel rings out you hits.AppKalash said:mazer - Are you the guy that pushed the front post the wrong way trying to zero that Century rifle?
AK barrels are pressed in place, no threading occurs. Canted sights are a common, if not overblown, problem with AKs but canted barrels... not so much. I've never actually heard the term used in fact.
Now barrel alignment can be a thing, like when it is not on the correct axis of rotation or I guess possibly if a barrel was pressed into the trunion crooked. By no means am I a builder so I have no idea how often something like described actually happens.
Canted sights can be relatively easily straightened, but barrel work is another thing.
I've never handled a Soviet AK, but the current factory Russian rifles are among the best of the sort made anywhere. The Izhmash factory that produces Saigas is the birthplace of the Kalashnikov rifle while the extremely nice Veprs are made in the Molot factory. I would argue that both of these factories produce their own style of rifles far better than the American importer and upstart manufacturer.
Seriously, I want to like an American AK better than any other but I'm not there yet. Hence this thread to see where other people stand on the subject. For that matter I had hoped to hear you had sent a couple thousand downrange with that rifle.
Is there a reason no one other than Crazy Yeager is reporting case after case of ammo successfully fired through their Century AK? I think maybe so
