Do the SAR 2 AK74s have the keyholing problem

[nathan]

too ? Or its just the WASR 2s of the later production ?

 

[HorseSoldier]

Do WASRs have keyholing issues? I thought it was primarily associated with Tantals built by Century using improperly sized barrels.

I think anything that you know has an imported barrel should be pretty good to go.

 

[gun addict]

no it does not, it uses Romanian chrome lined barrel that's correct for their AK74s, it's just ridiculous that Romanians at Cuigar could produce a higher quality correct AK barrel than our American labor :banghead:

 

[nalioth]

So when did this myth pop up?

Just another reason to dump on Century - now they're impugning the reputation of guns they don't even make.

As stated - NO SAR or WASR has "keyholing" issues.

 

[Kurt_D]

The only 5.45 rifles with keyholing issues are the Century Tantal and few of the S&W AR uppers. Century even went so far are to produce Tantals garanteed to keyhole with something by use different barrel options; one barrel will keyhole with commerical ammo, the other with surplus. With S&W it seems to be more isolated and possibly just a bad barrel.

Tantal by Interarms or other builds using orginal barrels have no issues. Bulgarian `74, both new production SLR105s and kits with orginal barrels don't have issues. Russian Saiga SGL-31 have no issues. Romanian SAR-2, WASR-2, WUM-2, Romak-2 have no issues. If it was built in a com-block country it's gtg.