{"id":27246,"date":"2019-02-09T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=27246"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:28:57","slug":"ak-corner-century-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/09\/ak-corner-century-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"AK Corner: Century Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[SHOT Show 2019] Century Arms WASR Imports and Custom AK\/Canik Line\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fkKrJztuJIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>I know in the past Century Arms had a <strong>BAD<\/strong>\u00a0(and I do mean <strong>BAD<\/strong> )reputation for &#8216;Frankenfish&#8221; or sub-par\/shitty quality builds with their AK&#8217;s.<\/h4>\n<h4>A decade ago I traded for an AK-74 Tantal that I discovered later had been fitted with a surplus 5.56 barrel that would tumble 5.45 rounds consistently. I sent the gun back to CAI and after a few weeks received another Tantal (with the correct barrel) that functioned flawlessly. Back in the day there were thousands of stories like this on AK forums.<\/h4>\n<h4>Fast forward to present day and Century Arms is a different company with a much improved Quality Control Department.<\/h4>\n<h4>That being said, if you are new to the AK game, you still need to understand how AK&#8217;s builds work. Bottom line, just like anything, you get what you pay for.<\/h4>\n<h4>An Article I wrote back in 2015 titled <a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/05\/addressing-and-breaking-the-ak-stigma\/\">&#8220;Addressing and Breaking the AK Stigma&#8221;<\/a> is a good place to start.<\/h4>\n<h4>Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know in the past Century Arms had a BAD\u00a0(and I do mean BAD )reputation for &#8216;Frankenfish&#8221; or sub-par\/shitty quality builds with their AK&#8217;s. A decade ago I traded for an AK-74 Tantal that I discovered later had been fitted with a surplus 5.56 barrel that would tumble 5.45 rounds consistently. I sent the gun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[401],"tags":[5490,6634,6635,42,6636,6504,6637],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}