There are a ton of outfits today making superior quality AK-47 knock offs
these days. IMHE the best of the older ones were Czech made. One of these
little beauties saved my bacon a few times. The M16 jammed like crazy when
I got in country. A nice Green Beret Lt. that met the 5 of us as we climbed
off the C-130 took our 16s and threw them in the binjo ditch. We picked up
captured Kalashnikovs from the base capture compound. I'll never forget how
great that gun was for use in the rain, mud, water, dirt and dust. It was
Czech made and I will always have a special spot in my heart for it.
Cheers!!
Jim
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, derf <derf247 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chinese metal is quality and metal parts are well made. The wood on
> military rifles is utilitarian, at best, and never really high
> quality.
>
> Chinese SKSs are better than others, like Yugoslavian. Yugoslavia has
> no significant local source for chrome and did not chrome line the
> barrels and things like the Chinese. A lot of military SKS (AK, too)
> ammo is corrosive, some more than others.
> The 7.62X39 round that SKS and AKs shoot is about equivalent to the
> common 30-30.
> For $99 in the early 90s you could get a new, Chinese SKS semi auto rifle.
> Now you can sell them for around $350.
> There were some Vietnam era red fiberglass stocks that are not pretty,
> but resilient.
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Cheers!!
Jim
Then there was the mind reader who moved to Washington, D.C. and couldn't
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