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To: Big Red Badger

AK receiver flats, as well.


45 posted on 08/17/2019 1:03:43 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: gundog

VERY TRUE. = I attended an “AK building party” in 1995 in VA where over 200 “AK clones” of various sorts were built from flats & assorted parts.
(SOME builders serial-numbered their creation & some did NOT, as VA law doesn’t require serial numbers on “homemade firearms”. - I serial numbered my “AK clone” & registered it at our PMO, as a non-serial numbered firearm is ILLEGAL to possess on US military posts.)

Mine started out as a parts kit for a Hungarian “paratrooper” AK carbine with a “demilled” 14” barrel.
(We cut what was left of the the barrel into two pieces with a torch, as it was illegal to assemble into a rifle & installed a NEW barrel on the receiver. - Frankly I see NO good use for an AK “pistol”. = Just too big/clunky for my taste.)

ONE good thing about a “built it myself forearm” is that you can get exactly the firearm that you want. = “my sort of an AK” has a LONGER butt-stock than is standard on any real AK.

Yours, TMN78247


51 posted on 08/17/2019 1:29:53 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: gundog

Btw, I’m “thinking on” building another “junk-box AK clone” from a “receiver flat”, with a 16.5” barrel & folding stock, as a “truck gun”.

IF/WHEN I build it, it will be painted with APPLIANCE PAINT & in “semi-gloss” black. = Appliance paint or auto exhaust paint is the TOUGHEST finish that I’ve yet found for firearms, as after either paint cures fully it’s difficult to get off with sandpaper.

Yours, TMN78247


54 posted on 08/17/2019 1:37:32 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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