Hello All!
Well I went out and popped off about 700 rounds of Wolf JHPs today through the AR47. The rifle is a really solid gun, very well balanced. The AK mag is a little longer than the AR mags so it takes a little getting used to holding the forearm a little further forward.
Once I was able to sight in the rifle, accuracy was great, I was shooting between 25 and 50 yards. I am in no means a great rifle shooter, but I was making about 2 inch groups, I'm sure the rifle is much more accurate than I am!!
The rifle did have a few FTFs but not a single FTEs; at first I thought there was something wrong with the way the rifle feeds, however after talking to a few of the range guys, we started to suspect the surplus AK mag. The spring wasn't pushing up the rounds fast enough or something, I took the mag apart and stretched out the spring and it started shooting fine. I only had the one mag, I tried looking for someone at the range who had one but no such luck. Once the spring started to wear down, the FTFs started again. I am also wondering if the JHPs had something to do with the FTFs. I will have to try some normal round nose rounds.
The forearm does tend to heat up a bit faster than my M4 when running as fast as you can pull the trigger. I had a couple of people show up to pull the trigger, most people who shot it didn't think it was too bad of a rifle, recoil is mild, the noise isn't that bad either.
I'm going to track down some new or fairly new AK mags and try it again. I think I might check around for a stronger buffer spring too. Hopefully next time I'll get to meet a few board members. I still have another 250-400 rounds left to squeeze off. I had to stop at 700 or so because I got tired of loading the one mag.
I'm happy with the rifle, it performed well, now comes the part I hate, cleaning my guns....