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Posted: 3/24/2009 1:08:49 AM EDT
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Can you use a traditional AK lower handguard on AMD-65s without issue, or is the retainer clip different?
I'm thinking of buy an AMD-65, but I dislike vertical foregrips and was thinking it would be cool to replace the metalk handguard with a KVAR plastic one. |
| You can do that with no problem, or just take the forward grip off - the bottom of the steel 'forearm' is smooth except for a little bump for indexing the pistol grip. The steel forearm and various wood/plastic lower hand guards are interchangable. If, however, you wanted to go all the way and put a hand guard on top too, you would have to make a short gas tube out of a standard one. |
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but several other sources I looked at said it can't be done without swapping the lower handguard retainer.
Has anyone actually swapped the standard AMD lower handguard with a KVAR one so I can know for sure? Also, does adding a KVAR lower handguard violate the 922 thing? |
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but several other sources I looked at said it can't be done without swapping the lower handguard retainer. Has anyone actually swapped the standard AMD lower handguard with a KVAR one so I can know for sure? Also, does adding a KVAR lower handguard violate the 922 thing? The handguard retainer on FEGs is the same on all versions. There are two pointed pins that index holes in the wood guard and keep the ends of the steel guard from being pushed in. Some new guards may not have the holes but they're easy to do. I got out my AMD-65 and SA85M and compared the retainers - they are identical and both have the pins at the upper corners - you can see the end of the pins on the back of the retainer without taking the hand guard off. There is no other place on the retainer for any other pin. I took the wood guards off the SA85M and using an AMD-63 lower guard with grip and a naked gas tube, am making it look like an AMD-63. The vented steel lower guard with grip was developed for the 63 and is the same part used on the 65. By all means, try it - you have nothing to lose. At worst you'll have a small amount of fitting to do, which you would figure on with any non-original hand guard. IMO a regular hand guard under the naked gas tube will look and feel rather strange In your case, even if the guard you use is foreign, it makes no difference for 922r because the original one was too. The manufacturer made his 10 foreign parts maximum in some other way. |
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I've got a Romy G kit built to look like an AMD-65, I may just part with it.
I currently have the Ironwood walnut pistol grip and upper and lower hand guards on it. We'll see what the fun shop says about the repairs that it needs before I decide to get rid of it for a real AMD 65 though. 
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