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Posted: 12/13/2009 8:53:13 AM EDT
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Century builds the rifles with a new receiver and barrel. What they are pulling out is powder from test firing, no? Mine was dirty as hell when I got it too, but again, it has a brand new us barrel on it. I also had some light rust on certain parts of it but after a break down and through cleaning it wasnt anything to worry about.
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Posted: 12/13/2009 8:57:31 AM EDT
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A new Century M70AB2 will have an equally new Green Mountain barrel (US made). Century does not use the original Yugo barrels.
The bores on a couple of my Century Yugos were initially pretty filthy but cleaned up fine with a normal cleaning routine. |
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Posted: 12/13/2009 5:05:08 PM EDT
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I've spent over one hour cleaning the bore with windex, hoppes 9 using 100 bore patches and a brass bore brush. I've never had to deal with this since I clean my bores after every outting.
It's better but not much. It looks like there is rust! What's the next step? And ideas please? On a side note.. It looks like the front sight post in the center of the sight assembly screws out. Is this correct? Also, the rear sight is slightly cocked to the side. Any ideas on this? It seems everything is riveted in on these almost making it seem like a disposable firearm. Tell me this cannot be. Ray |
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Posted: 12/13/2009 6:05:39 PM EDT
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Interesting! I wonder if century is using the Yugo 7.62 x 39 stuff thats supposedly mildly corrosive to test fire... Another guy said he had a tantel that had some minor rust, were century used corrosive 5.45 to test.
https://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=4&f=95&t=123667 |
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Posted: 12/13/2009 6:34:21 PM EDT
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Hmm..what should I do if that is the case? I haven't range tested yet so I ought to do so before getting too bent. How long is the warranty through century?
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Posted: 12/13/2009 8:01:30 PM EDT
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I would shoot it before jumping to any conclusions. Chances are everything will be fine. The quality of the Green Mountain barrels is known to be quite good.
Century's warranty is 1 year, but it starts when the dealer/retailer takes delivery of the rifle, not you. |
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Posted: 12/13/2009 9:04:24 PM EDT
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Quoted:
I've spent over one hour cleaning the bore with windex, hoppes 9 using 100 bore patches and a brass bore brush. I've never had to deal with this since I clean my bores after every outting. It's better but not much. It looks like there is rust! What's the next step? And ideas please? On a side note.. It looks like the front sight post in the center of the sight assembly screws out. Is this correct? Also, the rear sight is slightly cocked to the side. Any ideas on this? It seems everything is riveted in on these almost making it seem like a disposable firearm. Tell me this cannot be. Ray I bet you caused more wear trying to clean the dam barrel than shooting 1k ammo . Just shoot your new toy  check for fuction and MOM (min of man) and call it good. When you get home, run a boresnake three times and throw it back in the safe, Its a AK not a precision shooter 
Oh and welcome to the forum.... |
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Posted: 12/14/2009 3:54:53 AM EDT
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The "rust" is what is left over from the bluing process maybe? I don't know if these are blued or parkerized. If blued it is normal to wipe off light rust since that is basically what bluing is.
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Posted: 12/14/2009 4:06:08 AM EDT
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it's an ak not a benchrest gun.
shoot the damn thing and move on. yes CAI uses corrosive ammo with some of their test fires. 1 or 2 rounds will likely not produce enough salts in the bore to do anything. shoot the piss out of it and then clean it. the rounds will remove any "rust" that might be there. |
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Posted: 12/14/2009 5:45:40 AM EDT
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Quoted: The "rust" is what is left over from the bluing process maybe? I don't know if these are blued or parkerized. If blued it is normal to wipe off light rust since that is basically what bluing is. The rifle is parked. |
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Posted: 12/15/2009 7:04:23 PM EDT
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Damn I'm lucky.
I keep reading these post on the CIA Yugo AK's and how dirty and lopsided they are. I bought one from a dealer a few months back and I must have got the pick of the litter. The gun was the best one I've ever seen. It looked like it was finished with Gunkote and the barrel was new with deep rifeling and shinny as a crome bumper on a caddie. It shoot a good tight group at 100 and has the smoothest action anyone has ever touched. Everyone that picks it up and pulls the bolt is amazed. |
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Posted: 12/15/2009 7:33:10 PM EDT
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Damn I'm lucky. I keep reading these post on the CIA Yugo AK's and how dirty and lopsided they are. I bought one from a dealer a few months back and I must have got the pick of the litter. The gun was the best one I've ever seen. It looked like it was finished with Gunkote and the barrel was new with deep rifeling and shinny as a crome bumper on a caddie. It shoot a good tight group at 100 and has the smoothest action anyone has ever touched. Everyone that picks it up and pulls the bolt is amazed. Ive purchased two in the past and both of mine were spic and span when I bought them. |
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Posted: 12/18/2009 4:58:19 PM EDT
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mine was pretty dirty
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Posted: 12/20/2009 9:39:15 PM EDT
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<snip> It seems everything is riveted in on these almost making it seem like a disposable firearm. Tell me this cannot be. Ray Yes, they are meant to be cheaply made, easily maintained by peasant draftees - and just as disposable. As a Soviet designed rifle, they worked within Soviet doctrine of massed infanrty assaults under cover of massed artillery. Which also explains the poor long-range accuracy as they are meant to be fired in mad-minutes of full-auto assaults. They could've cared less how many Ivans it takes to advance, and how many AKMs get dropped into the muddy battlefields in the process. |
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Posted: 12/21/2009 2:49:29 AM EDT
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As a Soviet designed rifle, they worked within Soviet doctrine of massed infanrty assaults under cover of massed artillery. Which also explains the poor long-range accuracy as they are meant to be fired in mad-minutes of full-auto assaults. The Soviets were unconcerned about accuracy beyond 300 meters not because they used infantry in massed assaults - they didn't, that was the Chinese - but because they knew that: 1. Beyond 300 meters few targets would ever appear that an infantry man could engage with a rifle. 2. The average infantryman isn't able to effectively engage targets beyond 300 meters with a rifle (any rifle) under battlefield conditions. 3. They had artillery, tanks, machine guns, etc. to engage targets beyond 300 meters. Much grief and many lives would have been spared if the US Army would learn these lessons and stop forgetting them. |
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Posted: 12/21/2009 3:01:52 AM EDT
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It seems everything is riveted in on these almost making it seem like a disposable firearm. Tell me this cannot be. I'm not sure what you mean by "... everything...". The trunnion and stock block are riveted to the receiver. No other parts are riveted. The rifle will probably be running long after you're dead and doing so with the parts that are in it now. |
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