Recent content by R127

Appropriately heat treated forged and machined steel beats aluminum, plastic or sheet steel in ultimate durability. Except for polymer any of those materials should be able to outlast their original owner.

Have you been watching the Dow? How about the over 100 trillion in debt, pensions, medicare and other unfunded liabilities? I think they'll be busy with a lot of other things long before they get around to banning guns and ammo.

Real assault rifles are an excellent investment. There is only a limited number of them that will ever be available for ownership by ordinary citizens who can meet the requirements. If you don't need the happy switch you can get a similar looking semi auto rifle for under $2,000 as was mentioned...

SEAL teams use real assault rifles, the ones with full auto. There have been no newly manufactured assault rifles available for civilian purchase since 1986. If you want one you have to get approved by the ATF and your sherrif plus pay a hefty tax stamp. Then there's the cost of the rifle...

Well the first thing to decide is if you want a stamped or milled receiver. I've owned a lot of AK's of both types and in my experience the way it breaks down is, Stamped: appreciably lighter, generally more affordable, works fine Milled: a little more accurate and over all build quality...

I think it is odd that some people think AR's aren't inexpensive and mass produced. :confused: The government doesn't pay what you pay for them. As far as steel cased ammo goes, AR users swear a steel cased round will never enter their chambers because AR's have problems shooting steel...

Use 124gr Military Classic JHP in your AK, it fragments so no worries about over penetration. Nobody should have to use a washcloth as a recoil pad. K-Var and Kalinka optics both sell the military AK recoil pad originally intended for use with the grenade launcher. There are some copies of that...

In my opinion AK's are doing fine in the widget category. You can get all kinds of rails for them already and a huge array of weaver rail accessories will work on the AK as well as the AR. There's all kinds of neat little add on parts like the shepherd's hook replacement to the adjustable...

That's an interesting point on AR's having the advantage of big potential customer in the US military. I have to wonder though, does it really work out that the military is a larger market than civilian gun owners? There's only a few million people between all the services and law enforcement...

No pics, I learned it from a Russian soldier. The use of the combo-tool to adjust the front sight is straight forward. Put the pick in the extended position so it's out of the way, insert the flat head screwdriver part of the combo-tool into the slot in the cleaning kit body to form a "T"...

AK's are more popular than ever before in this country, I see that as a good thing. :cool: The basic design is solid and there's a lot more you can get out of the action than is encountered in most commonly available AK's. More and more AK parts are being manufactured domestically. It seems...

Tha'ts a good story about the woman. Now here's a practical question, does anybody think she would have been better off pumping that shotgun instead of firing it?

I assume you mean the front sight drum, the part that adjusts windage. You can stake it in place once it is zeroed and that was once a common practice on drift style sights. Still, you shouldn't have to. It sounds like yours might be slightly out of spec so you might try a replacement part. If...

No, nothing like that. The combination tool from the cleaning kit has a notch with a hole bored in it that is intended to be used to adjust the front sight post. The lugs at the end of the bayonet sheath are designed to engage the front sight drum and drift it left or right. This isn't the only...

I experimented with a vertical foregrip on an AK for a while. I also reached the conclusion that it is best to use the mag as the foregrip. The AK balances on the mag and throwing a vertical foregrip on far enough forward to clear the mag gets leverage working against you. A shorter VF can also...