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Posted: 1/2/2015 10:43:40 AM EDT
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Yesterday a good friend brought a gun of his that failed day before yesterday. It is a .223 Krink Pistol made by Elite Firearms.Net from Hurst, Texas on a Armory USA Receiver. The problem was the bolt was only bearing on one side. Thusly it battered itself and the trunion apart. If anyone else has a gun made by them it would be a good idea to check and make sure both bolt lugs are bearing. The friend that brought it to me is the German factory trained gunsmith for Walther and Anschutz in the US. The gun had showed no sign of the failure beforehand. I do not know even if 'Elite Firearms' is even still in business. Main thing I wanted to do was give folks a heads up that may have one of their guns. The owner of the gun is going to use the salvageable parts to make a SBR after the proper paperwork goes thru. The bolt and front trunion are totally FUBAR, but the barrel will go into a SAR-3 to make a good SBR. I did find out the web site for Elite Firearms is no more, but it does list the owner as Dave Michener and it gives a Fort Worth address and phone number. My friend is going to try and contact him next week. Anybody know if he really is doing Saiga Conversions and Galil builds as well as AK pistols that his old web site claimed? fixed your all caps title. dryflash3
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Can we get pics? I wish I could. He took them home and I do not have a way to take or post pics unfortunately. I will say both sides of the trunion came straight back and fell into the receiver. Mag was blown straight down. Wasn't hurt, but it was scary for all there. |
| That's exactly the Elite I was thinking of. I remember the horrible "Russian" markings engraved into member thekatar's AK on another forum. SWAT magazine ran an article on Galils and featured Dave at Elite. There was a huge backlash against the magazine after that ran; They obviously didn't know about his reputation at the time. |
It amazes me how in today's internet age how people who produce crap, continue to ripoff new customers.
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Quoted: Yesterday a good friend brought a gun of his that failed day before yesterday. It is a .223 Krink Pistol made by Elite Firearms.Net from Hurst, Texas on a Armory USA Receiver. The problem was the bolt was only bearing on one side. Thusly it battered itself and the trunion apart. If anyone else has a gun made by them it would be a good idea to check and make sure both bolt lugs are bearing. The friend that brought it to me is the German factory trained gunsmith for Walther and Anschutz in the US. The gun had showed no sign of the failure beforehand. I do not know even if 'Elite Firearms' is even still in business. Main thing I wanted to do was give folks a heads up that may have one of their guns. The owner of the gun is going to use the salvageable parts to make a SBR after the proper paperwork goes thru. The bolt and front trunion are totally FUBAR, but the barrel will go into a SAR-3 to make a good SBR. I did find out the web site for Elite Firearms is no more, but it does list the owner as Dave Michener and it gives a Fort Worth address and phone number. My friend is going to try and contact him next week. Anybody know if he really is doing Saiga Conversions and Galil builds as well as AK pistols that his old web site claimed?  |
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