Any AK builders here?

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Hey everyone!
I'm looking in to building an AK-74 for the fun and challenge. From the receiver to completion... manly feats of strength and whatnot (Da, Komrade).
Anyway, I'm putting the feelers out to see if there are any build clubs (cults?) around the Carolinas... I've heard that's a thing, at least.
 
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IrishCannon said:
Check this thread:

https://www.carolinafirearmsforum.com/index.php?threads/great-builder-in-kernersville.12797/

I would have loved to get into building, but my interest in AK's didn't come about in time. Just wouldn't be cost effective for my right now. $300-600 barrel-less kits? psh. WIsh I got into it back during the $69 Tula kits.
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Yeah the kits are ridiculous now... you should see what they want for rusty heaps that just happen to say something Russian on them! For the price you mentioned though, there are some out there with barrels. The only problem I see with the guy in the thread you posted is... isn't the legality of paying someone to build your 80% questionable? I thought you could have "help", but once it's completed it's all on you. It also takes the fun out of it... but it would also save the heartache of screwing it up royally. I'm also looking at trying to find an Arsenal 104FR and going from there... because as you and others have said, building doesn't save much money anymore. I'm also looking into buying a complete receiver... but locally. I posted a WTB ad about all that... anyone happen to know where to pick stuff like that up around here?
 
Ikarus1 said:
yeah other than the challenge, I have no desire to build an AK that costs more than I can buy one. I'll leave the Kalashnikov building to the experts, and to vodka-loving men with smelly beards
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Yeah exactly. While I don't prefer vodka and I don't have a beard to be smelly, I'd want it for a SHTF sort of philosophy of use. It would be fun to do, learn a lot and have incognito should the need arise. I've built a few ARs but never from an 80%, and in conjunction with wanting to try something different, I decided AK for that purpose. That's why buying a complete receiver or total rifle would have to be local... I know I could get them online no problem, but I imagine that using your credit card with all your information in it to buy an 80% online, you'll wind up on all the same lists as if you buy a serialized gun off the shelf at a store. Hell... it probably gets you on those lists just to talk about it online so it may be a lost cause for me on that one o_O
 
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Majicmike said:
I know a guy that does random stuff for me but he's doesn't advertise. Like almost everything else in life as I got older I rather pay someone. Plus I like factory built stuff better.
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Indeed... factory stuff has warranties... but even those are hard to find now! Does this contact sell 80% blanks?

Seriously... I was looking for a Arsenal SLR-104FR... assembled in America and still nothing
 
I'd be up for buying a complete rifle from someone, but I'm looking for 5.45x39, side folder, threaded for muzzle devices. Gonna Zenitco one of these out and be Spetzcool instead of tacticool. :cool:
 
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AK's were "factory built" by vodka swilling third world conscripts. There's exactly nothing about putting an AK together as good or better than the inebriated babushkas that orginally fashioned them with a hammer and a coarse file.:cool:

It's kinda fun, but the cost of kits is crazy. The "Romy G" kits were sold for a couple years on the AKfiles forum for $99 for new, disassembled kits. Several of the ones I got had the cardboard plugs in both end of the barrels that were put there when they were built. The slightly used were closed out for 79$ ea if you bought 10 (I did...they turned out to be good trading fodder). I bought a flat forming tool and some flats, pressed out a bunch and sold the tool for 90% of what I paid for it.

The mid 2000's were heady days for the garage AK industry.
 
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JohnFreeman said:
AK's were "factory built" by vodka swilling third world conscripts. There's exactly nothing about putting an AK together as good or better than the inebriated babushkas that orginally fashioned them with a hammer and a coarse file.:cool:

It's kinda fun, but the cost of kits is crazy. The "Romy G" kits were sold for a couple years on the AKfiles forum for $99 for new, disassembled kits. Several of the ones I got had the cardboard plugs in both end of the barrels that were put there when they were built. The slightly used were closed out for 79$ ea if you bought 10 (I did...they turned out to be good trading fodder). I bought a flat forming tool and some flats, pressed out a bunch and sold the tool for 90% of what I paid for it.

The mid 2000's were heady days for the garage AK industry.
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Yep, seems like it's just about a bygone era. This makes me late to the party and there's only suds left in the keg. Do you happen to have any of those kits or flats left that you suddenly feel the urge to rid yourself of? Wink wink, say no more say no more. Or were all of yours 47's instead of 74's? I remember the days when kits were super cheap but I lived in Kommiefornia back then.
 
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