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Posted: 2/7/2011 4:48:42 PM EDT
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Bought one yesterday. FSB is good-to-go. Apparently these are the ones with chrome lined barrels as mine appears this way (looking into the chamber area as well as the little "lip" of silver around the muzzle's interior). Just letting any of you who may be interested in one that this apparently the model # you want if looking for a chrome lined barrel.
Okay, the million-dollar question: while obviously happy, how is it that these particular rifles have chrome lined barrels when the other Century ones in 7.62x39 do not? Even other WASR models. |
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Bought one yesterday. FSB is good-to-go. Apparently these are the ones with chrome lined barrels as mine appears this way (looking into the chamber area as well as the little "lip" of silver around the muzzle's interior). Just letting any of you who may be interested in one that this apparently the model # you want if looking for a chrome lined barrel. Okay, the million-dollar question: while obviously happy, how is it that these particular rifles have chrome lined barrels when the other Century ones in 7.62x39 do not? Even other WASR models. Yours has an original Romanian barrel. More recent weapons will have an American-made barrel, none of which are chrome-lined at this time. |
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Bought one yesterday. FSB is good-to-go. Apparently these are the ones with chrome lined barrels as mine appears this way (looking into the chamber area as well as the little "lip" of silver around the muzzle's interior). Just letting any of you who may be interested in one that this apparently the model # you want if looking for a chrome lined barrel. Okay, the million-dollar question: while obviously happy, how is it that these particular rifles have chrome lined barrels when the other Century ones in 7.62x39 do not? Even other WASR models. Yours has an original Romanian barrel. More recent weapons will have an American-made barrel, none of which are chrome-lined at this time. I know what a chrome lined barrel looks like, so I don't have (m)any doubts. However, it was purchased new but I don't know how long the dealer had it. Folks here have said that *some* of the WARS's have new Romanian chrome lined barrels, no? Maybe this is one? |
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Bought one yesterday. FSB is good-to-go. Apparently these are the ones with chrome lined barrels as mine appears this way (looking into the chamber area as well as the little "lip" of silver around the muzzle's interior). Just letting any of you who may be interested in one that this apparently the model # you want if looking for a chrome lined barrel. Okay, the million-dollar question: while obviously happy, how is it that these particular rifles have chrome lined barrels when the other Century ones in 7.62x39 do not? Even other WASR models. Yep, ours are Romanian built rifles that were shipped as single stack rifles and then had the mag well converted for double stack mags. The ATF banned importing barrels at some point recently. |
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Bought one yesterday. FSB is good-to-go. Apparently these are the ones with chrome lined barrels as mine appears this way (looking into the chamber area as well as the little "lip" of silver around the muzzle's interior). Just letting any of you who may be interested in one that this apparently the model # you want if looking for a chrome lined barrel. Okay, the million-dollar question: while obviously happy, how is it that these particular rifles have chrome lined barrels when the other Century ones in 7.62x39 do not? Even other WASR models. Yep, ours are Romanian built rifles that were shipped as single stack rifles and then had the mag well converted for double stack mags. The ATF banned importing barrels at some point recently. Does this mean possible mag fit/feeding issues? Haven't shot it yet. |
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Bought one yesterday. FSB is good-to-go. Apparently these are the ones with chrome lined barrels as mine appears this way (looking into the chamber area as well as the little "lip" of silver around the muzzle's interior). Just letting any of you who may be interested in one that this apparently the model # you want if looking for a chrome lined barrel. Okay, the million-dollar question: while obviously happy, how is it that these particular rifles have chrome lined barrels when the other Century ones in 7.62x39 do not? Even other WASR models. Yep, ours are Romanian built rifles that were shipped as single stack rifles and then had the mag well converted for double stack mags. The ATF banned importing barrels at some point recently. Does this mean possible mag fit/feeding issues? Haven't shot it yet. It could, I've only ever had a problem with one mag, it was metal and seemed cheaply made compared to some of my others. It was thinner gauge metal. The Bulgy waffle mags are awesome though. Does your receiver have dimples in the mag well or not? If it doesn't, the receiver was converted. If it does, the parts were rebuilt on an American made receiver, but I'm betting no dimps. |
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Bought one yesterday. FSB is good-to-go. Apparently these are the ones with chrome lined barrels as mine appears this way (looking into the chamber area as well as the little "lip" of silver around the muzzle's interior). Just letting any of you who may be interested in one that this apparently the model # you want if looking for a chrome lined barrel. Okay, the million-dollar question: while obviously happy, how is it that these particular rifles have chrome lined barrels when the other Century ones in 7.62x39 do not? Even other WASR models. Yep, ours are Romanian built rifles that were shipped as single stack rifles and then had the mag well converted for double stack mags. The ATF banned importing barrels at some point recently. Does this mean possible mag fit/feeding issues? Haven't shot it yet. It could, I've only ever had a problem with one mag, it was metal and seemed cheaply made compared to some of my others. It was thinner gauge metal. The Bulgy waffle mags are awesome though. Does your receiver have dimples in the mag well or not? If it doesn't, the receiver was converted. If it does, the parts were rebuilt on an American made receiver, but I'm betting no dimps. Nope, no dimples. I also looked around the inside edges of the magwell and you could see bare metal, i.e. it had been opened up. Both steel mags that came with it insert and remove with no problems. Didn't try any of my other AK mags though. |
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To the best of my knowledge ALL of the WASR series of rifles have factory, original military surplus chrome lined barrels which could have been slightly used to like new condition. The ATF ruled that these barrels (used mil surp) could not be used because they were originally assembled on "machine guns". So now the WASR series are manufactured with BRAND NEW mil spec chrome lined Romanian barrels.
See this thread here The only ones that do not have chrome lined barrels are the GP 1975 series which have non chrome lined Green Mountain barrels (and the Yugos of course). |
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To the best of my knowledge ALL of the WASR series of rifles have factory, original military surplus chrome lined barrels which could have been slightly used to like new condition. The ATF ruled that these barrels (used mil surp) could not be used because they were originally assembled on "machine guns". So now the WASR series are manufactured with BRAND NEW mil spec chrome lined Romanian barrels. See this thread here The only ones that do not have chrome lined barrels are the GP 1975 series which have non chrome lined Green Mountain barrels (and the Yugos of course). this ^ was my understanding also , |
| All WASRs have chrome lined barrels. WASRs made before 2005 had new production barrels. 7.62 mm WASRs made between 2005 and mid to late 2010 had barrels from the donor rifles. Since mid to late '10 WASRs have had new production barrels, because the .gov decided that surplus AK barrels couldn't be imported even as part of a complete "sporter" rifle. |
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