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Posted: 2/7/2005 5:22:34 AM EDT
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I have a milled bulgarian receiver stuck way back in the safe. I just can't make up my mind how I should build the thing . I have a new bulgarian postban kit with a neutered barrel and I was thinking of building with Ironwood laninated wood. What do you all think! How should I build this rifle? Sparky1 |
| What was done to the barrel to neuter it? It may be possible to have a new gas block and front sight put on, or you might luck out and find a no-ban barrel with gas block and FSB already installed. I would use the kit that you have, with a different barrel, and buy a set of Bulgarian plastic off of the EE and have an all Bulgarian gun. |
 Geez man, you'll give me a complex  .But seriously......keep the receiver, and as someone else has posted, the kit you have is probably "unbannable" by replacing the gas block and front sight assembly. If you want to go old school, the Sportsman Guide kits are from early milled receiver AK-47's. A smith can build it to your receiver and you'd have a damn near perfect clone of the "original" (yes, I know the Type 1 and Type 2 AK's came first, but not many were exported around the world), most widely distributed AK-47. I'm sure there are plenty of guys lined up here to buy the receiver off of you. |
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Templar, The kit is one of Centerfire kits that came with a thumbhole stock. I mailed the kit to GG with a $200 sweetner and a year and a half later I got back no money, a receiver and some of the parts from the Kansas AG. So that I would have a complete kit, I purchased a second kit. Now I have two barrels and extra parts. What to do, what to do! The receiver is not for sale. Now back to you all for more advise. Thanks Sparky1 |
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At least you got something back.......that MF'er took me for a SAR-2, couple of hundred $'s, and a new Bulgarian barrel. Well, what are your interests, AK wise I mean........do you think you might want to do something "historical", like a Type 3 Clone, or something updated, like a Bulgarian AR-M1?  
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Sparky.........you can sell those parts out on the Equipment Exchange here and on places like www.sturmgewehr.com to recoup some money....believe me, there are guys here (me among them) who are always looking for bits and pieces for projects. As far as Gucciano, I just washed my hands of the whole affair, there were guys who got taken for a whole lot more than we did. |
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Templar, You are right all I lost was a few $ and a few parts. I was thinking that to protect yourself you should turn in the missing SAR1 to the ATF. One never knows where it may turn up. He must have done something with it, like build a gun for one of his friends that is if he ever had any! Most likely some of my parts are on your gun right now. Sparky1 |
Yes they did, on the early Type 2 and Type 3 rifles, yes. They then went to a bakelite grip, and you can be sure that if some soldier broke his laminated pistol grip and it went to the armorer later on, it probably got replaced with a bakelite grip. Both would be "correct". |
| The Russian even used the laminated grips on AKM's and early 74's. I hope that you use the receiver to build a type III clone. Those receivers are hard to find and I am a huge fan of type III's. I would hate to see that perfect receiver go to waste with a bastard pre-ban parts kit. To save yourself the trouble you should just sell the receiver to me. |
Originally blue. Some of the kits may be parked, I believe they came out of Israel from captured stocks of PLO weapons, so anything could have happened in all those years. The smith who's going to build the kit into a rifle will have to turn the threads down on the barrel and press it into the receiver. |
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