Short list of minimalist modifications needed to make the AK run like a champ 1. TRIGGER..TRIGGER…TRIGGER I will never forget what a very dear friend and gunsmith guru said to me many moons ago: “If you want any gun to be 100% of it’s capability, install a better trigger and you are 75%…
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AK Corner: 5 Uncommon AK-47 Issues
5 Uncommon AK-47 Issues When I pitched this article idea, I had planned on calling it “5 Common AK Issues,” but the more I thought about what I was experiencing, the less sure I was that these issues were in any way common. The AK platform can have its hiccups. Yet, much like the…
AK Corner: Zero Recoil AK Goodness
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Guerilla AK Drones
H/T White Rabbit Where there is a WILL, there is a WAY.
AK Corner: Operating the AK-74 in Ukraine
Great Tips for Reloading and Clearance Drills. Keep an eye on your Recoil Spring, if you keep having feed malfunctions, replace ASAP. Additional Resources: The Iraqi Reload Shooting from Behind Cover w/Transitions
AK Corner: Is the PKM the Best Light Machine Gun Ever?
PKM: Is This the Best Light Machine Gun Ever? Key point: PKMs still arm many western-aligned nations as well. Mikhail Kalashnikov is known for creating the AK rifle, but his contributions to Soviet firearms design didn’t end there. In 1961 he designed the PK machine gun, which was modernized into the PKM in 1969….
Bomb Proof Dots: The Burris FastFire
Bomb Proof Dots: The Burris FastFire Although I have never run the Fastfire on a pistol, I do run a Gen 2 and 3 (mounted on a Ultimak) on both of my go-to AK’s and they both perform as well now as when I installed them sixteen years ago. Furthermore, even after balls to…
AK Corner: The History of Yugo AK’s (5 Part Series)
Zastava M64. Part 1. The Unusual History of Yugoslavian AKs Zastava AKs, Part 2. M70 – The First Mass-Produced Yugoslavian Kalashnikov Yugo AKs, Part 3. M70B1, the Workhorse from the Balkans Yugoslav AKs, Part 4. Collapse of Yugoslavia Serbian AKs, Part 5: Rising from the Ashes
AK Corner: AK’s from Finland
AKs from Finland. Part 1: Development History The small European country of Finland always had a great reputation when it comes to arms production. For collectors, Finnish-made Mosin-Nagants are some of the most desirable Mosin rifles, but there is another rifle design that the Finnish took to a whole other level. It is called RK…
AK Corner: Story of the RPK-74
Story of the RPK-74 The 5.45x39mm RPK-74 was an evolutionary development of Mikhail Kalashnikov’s original 1940’s-vintage AK-47. The earliest AK (Avtomat Kalashnikova) rifle fired the then radically new M43 7.62x39mm round and was built around a stamped steel receiver. This 35″, 7.7-lb. infantry rifle legitimately changed the world. Alas, those early stamped receivers weren’t…