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4/1/2003 6:21:46 AM EDT
I just bought my first SAR-1 made by Century Arms.  Is the gun supposed to lock the bolt open like an AR-15 when your magazine is empty?  Mine gives me no indication that my mag is dry until I squeeze the trigger and it just goes "click".  Let me know if this is the way it is supposed to be or if I've gotten a bum AK.  Thanks!
4/1/2003 10:59:25 AM EDT
[#1]
Come on folks, help me out, please!!!
4/1/2003 11:23:14 AM EDT
[#2]
sorry!  AKs generally have no bolt hold open feature.  The only exception I have found is the Saiga, and that is only  a manual bolt hold open device. It will not hold the bolt open on the last shot.
4/1/2003 11:27:25 AM EDT
[#3]
So, when the gun is empty, the only way I'll know it is by pulling the trigger and it doesn't go bang?
4/1/2003 11:53:40 AM EDT
[#4]
Bigdawg thats correct. When its empty the bolt dont lock back. One of my small complaints about the AK. Youll get use to it. :)    Still fun rifles. Wardawg
4/1/2003 2:28:09 PM EDT
[#5]
Count em as they go in and count em as they go out.
4/1/2003 3:21:02 PM EDT
[#6]
if you find some old yugo mags...you'll have a bolt hold open of sorts. it holds the bolt open on the last shot...but the bolt slams home once the mag is removed.

there is a reason the ak has no last shot bolt hold open.

it's the same reason the british purposefully disabled their l1a1 bolt hold opens.

to keep crap out of the action while reloading...which is often accomplished in, shall we say, awkeard positions.
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