{"id":87166,"date":"2026-05-02T03:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=87166"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:06:18","slug":"ak-corner-paul-gomez-the-urban-ak-and-the-century-arms-ak63d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/ak-corner-paul-gomez-the-urban-ak-and-the-century-arms-ak63d\/","title":{"rendered":"AK Corner: Paul Gomez, The Urban AK and the Century Arms AK63D"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PAUL GOMEZ, THE URBAN AK, AND THE CENTURY ARMS AK63D<\/a><\/h1>\n

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t has been nearly four years since Paul Everett Gomez died, in Seattle WA. \u00a0Paul was on his way to British Columbia, to deliver\u00a0his unique brand of training. \u00a0Paul had two flagship courses, 1. \u00a0RPM\u2026\u201dRobust Pistol Manipulation\u201d that was Paul\u2019s unique spin on ambidextrous gun handling, both shooting, loading, and fixing malfunctions, with EACH hand and one-hand-only, and 2. \u00a0\u201cUrban AK,\u201d which was essentially, utilization of the AK at distances normally reserved for pistol and shotgun work,\u00a0that is, inside of 25 yards. \u00a0Paul slept on my sofa bed, the night before he departed Nashville for Seattle, and he left his carry pistol, a Glock 19, and his, \u201cbag gun,\u201d an underfolding AKM, in my possession. \u00a0Paul stayed at my house regularly, every couple of days, and this was the custom when he flew to places he couldn\u2019t carry at.<\/h2>\n

I first met Paul at a Tactical Response, \u201cFighting Rifle,\u201d course in about the Fall of 2006. \u00a0Paul and I were the only students in a class of ten, and we were the only students using AK variants. \u00a0At the time, the carbine itself cost less than $350, and a case of Wolf ammunition was $99, and sometimes you could find it for $79! \u00a0Very inexpensive by today\u2019s standards. \u00a0Magazines were plentiful, and could be had for $8 to $10 each. \u00a0Well, Paul and I were, at first, the odd men out, as everyone else in the class had an M4 of some sort, along with the flashlights, and red dot optics that work so well with the Stoner family of carbines and rifles. \u00a0Paul and I had simple, wood stocked rifles, with simple nylon slings, and iron sights. \u00a0They were about as, \u201cstock,\u201d as an AK could get. \u00a0The weather was cold, and there was even some snow on the ground, but despite the precipitation, neither of our rifles had any malfunctions, and we both finished the class admirably. \u00a0Our friendship was forged from there on out.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Civilian Defender<\/a><\/h2>\n

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PAUL GOMEZ, THE URBAN AK, AND THE CENTURY ARMS AK63D   t has been nearly four years since Paul Everett Gomez died, in Seattle WA. \u00a0Paul was on his way to British Columbia, to deliver\u00a0his unique brand of training. \u00a0Paul had two flagship courses, 1. \u00a0RPM\u2026\u201dRobust Pistol Manipulation\u201d that was Paul\u2019s unique spin on ambidextrous…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1303,401,10,404,405],"tags":[5490,9057,219,6686],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87166"}],"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=87166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87167,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87166\/revisions\/87167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}