there is not a darn thing wrong with the romanian sar receivers. they are as good as any russian or hungarian or bulgarian receiver ever made.

it's just a piece of bent-up sheet steel...not some holy grail.

the wasr receivers lack the mag well dimples. the authenticity is less because of that...for those that really give a damn. again, a wasr (legally) converted to full auto would run as long as the 'finest' russian ak ever to leave izhevsk.

there is no alchemy or black forest elves building ak's with sprinkles of pixie dust. they are merely lifeless pieces of steel held together by flimsy rivets. an ohio rapid fire or inrange build is probably BETTER than ivan's...and the guarantee IS better.

the following is a joke post:

...while the Romanian 5.45 is a home brewed morph that does everything as well as any russian/bulgarian kalashnikov will.

fixed that for ya!

and while Campy is busy beating down the purist elitist attitude,

fixed that, too.

...just 'cause they're idiots and can't follow the mother country's instruction booklet, who knows?

yup....15 yards! deliberate elitism penalty on the defense! repeat third down!

I think the only thing wrong with the Romy guns in general is that they always had to make things a little different in Romania

oh! piling on and intentional looking down the nose! that's half the distance to the goal line!

You simply have to clarify what you deam as "best receiver".... functionality, durability, compatibility, or collector desireablity.

well, them thar romanian receivers sho' do seem to be as durable as the next ak out there. and they sure do function the same...doing that really complicated job of holding everything together. they seem be compatible with most folks...they sure have sold a ton of them while everyone else was sleeping. now...i will give you that collector 'desirability' thing. most romanians are owned by people that actually go out and shoot their ak's.

was it meatloaf that said? something like "3 out of 4 ain't bad"?

play whistled dead!  beating a dead horse foul! touchdown, osu!!!


here's a  thought...not everyone gave a damn about the 'mother country'. in fact, MOST of the 'commies' in occupied europe (and that would include those that labored to build kalashnikovs) despised their lord and masters.

why, i've been told that only a few the third world shitholes even bothered to pay tribute to rome in the form of build royalties. look at all those features the yugos added. look at those independant minded germans...despite their forking over the dm. why, the nerve of those high and mighty romanians!!! how dare they deviate from the 5-year plan! those bastards! and those raving chinese!!! what were they thinking? why did they depart so radically for the 'mother country'??? and those egyptians! hell, they couldn't even apply cheap balck, semi-gloss spray paint to suit the russophiles! and those damned hungarians! screwing around with funky colors like they were somebody! why, the gall of some people! and those idiot czechs! why those folks were so lost they never did bother to get with the 'mother country's game plan. should we drag the poor indians into this? how about those flipped out finns? the insane israelis? we won't even talk about those irksome iraqi's and their, "we can't even copy a yugo that couldn't even copy a russian pattern".

you see...hardly ANYONE followed the 'mother country's' example...preferring to, as frank would have said, "i built it myyyyyyyyyyy wayyyyyyyyyy!".

and as far as THAT goes, not even those bulgarian akm modified recs are 'authentic' to current i-smash products untill i spend a couple of hours chopping on them, anyway.

and if we take this to the extreme...tell me how close a saiga or vepr rec is to the real mccoy? da, comrade, i got my dimple smashing tools and welder on standby!

for the czar's sake! not even you freakin' russians could agree on what an ak74 was/is! ekie can spend 26 days of his life spewing forth the 19 porch configurations on the action covers, the various brakes...a thru triple-z!, the casting variations...the myriad of furnitures...the gas tap hole...the various gas blocks...the pistol grips...

hello, pot!?!?! this is the kettle calling!!!! your akm is done, but we forgot which grip we were using this week!

harrrummmph!!!

now, tell me...exactly how many of you out there in ak-land built an authentic (whatever the hell that is) russian clone? 1/2 of 1%? 1/10 of 1%? 1/100 of 1%?

i would bet a case of ammo that not ONE romanian in a thousand sold was torn apart to make some kind of mother country clone out of.

get all the stamps you want, use any components you can get your hands on and...you still end up with...what was that description???...oh yes, a "home brewed morph". perhaps with cyrillic markings, but a home brew regardless.

it's an ak. it was born to be abused like a cheap suit.

to me, it's as silly as those ar dudes and their, "there will never be another ar marked "ar15" so this one is uber-valuable...or..."if it's not a colt, it's just a copy".

pffft!! if isn't an armalite, it's a colt copy of an armalite!

when you put 15+k rounds on those museum pieces as fast as you can reload them...my romy beaters will be here waiting.

and haven't the russians been putting optic rails on just about everything they build for the last 10 years (it took them a while, but even they finally stepped into the last century)?

dog that romy receiver all you want, it WILL do anything a receiver from the 'mother country' will do! and it is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT authentic to the romanian pattern! heheh!



i'm just screwing with you guys. i really needed to do a stupid rant to get my crappy offhand smallbore relay out of my system!!! i suck at offhand, damnit! we now return you to your regularly scheduled posting.

anyway, i'll get me one of them vulgarian ak74's as soon as arsenal builds me an 'authentic' version.

hmmm? i wonder if we can talk them into doing some cyrillic marking for us?!?!?!

sorry I am so 'bloc specific' as my associates call me!

nah! never apologise for what you love. we all have different views and different areas of interest and that's what makes life fun.

i wasn't lying...i shot a 67 in offhand last night! heheheh! i suck!!!

if just the appearance were unimportant, the phrase campyclone would not be in our vocabulary...

which just goes to show that the ROMANIAN ak74 can be just as well loved as the russian! lol!

yup, fistpoint, there are lines that we all draw and each one of us has a specific mind-set when it comes to those lines. if i were into building rus-clones instead of machineguns, i would certainly want as close a starting point as possible.

i don't think that even chamberlin or ekie enjoy studying stottman's pictures any more than i do.

Nice to know the difference. But I am such an elite purist that I took an Armalite lower, Bushmaster telestock/small parts, Colt 7.62x39 upper to the range last Sun.

"authentic to the romanian pattern"

egads!!! i've created a new branch of purists!!!

the romyheads! heheh!