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Posted: 10/20/2004 12:08:58 PM EDT
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So I am thinking of getting an AK, just to round out my semi-auto collection, mostly. I am looking at the Romanian ones that SOG has for like $289, but have also considered building one up out of an AMD-65 kit. I've done lots of rifle builds before (AR-15s, FALs), and I could probably even handle doing a receiver flat, but I will probably either buy a complete rifle or at least a complete receiver and then build on that. I'm looking for the least expensive route, so I don't want to hear about K-VAR and their overpriced kits or any of these $500+ AKs that seem to be everywhere. What else is out there? |
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Isn't Aresenal supposed to be releasing a stamped gun for about $400 any old time now. I would imagine that that would be a hell of a gun for the money. If you are really that tightwadded, go with the WASR hicap, they are dirt cheap and are the cheapest around. If you had gotten one of the AMD kits when they were sixty, you could have put a gun together for around two hundred bucks had you done it all yourself (that is using a complete reciever, assuming that you transfer dealer isn't a ass rapist like the ones around here). |
| I'm not a cheap bastard, it's just I don't want to throw a bunch of money into an AK. I can put together a kit myself, in fact, that's what I may end up doing. Although the Romos do seem attractively priced and I can probably do a few mods like add a slant brake, or folder or something like that. |
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The romanian guns function well but they are some of the roughest looking AK's out of the box. Although a wasr-10 with a simple furniture swap looks pretty good. Chinese guns tend to look better. Then the custom builds from ORF and such will look much better. But they will probably be out of your price range. I may pick up a WASR-2 if they ever actually get into the country. Maybe Kerry is holding them back on his swift boat with his m16  ::::rolls eyes:::::
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They are now selling them with 'evil' features. |
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