I had one, it was prone to key holing but man was that ammo cheap. If I could find a good one I’d get another
I had several AK’s that shot that caliber, and a ton of milsurp ammo for the same, but I got tired of having to clean the rifles thoroughly due to the ammo’s corrosive nature. Just one round, and it was scrub time. I sold off everything.
Love mine!! Dirty... yep but cleaning it is a small price for cheap ammo fun!!
Love it. Never had a use for it, was always a 7.62x39 guy - until I bought one. The 74 is my favorite flavor of AK now, I'd never want to be without one. Plenty accurate and no recoil, so follow-up shots are quick.
emapples - was it Polish? There were some Polish 74s built here that had the wrong bore diameter, and they keyholed something awful.
emapples - was it Polish? There were some Polish 74s built here that had the wrong bore diameter, and they keyholed something awful.
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Mil-surp? I'm guessing steel cased lacquer coated ammo?
Hornady makes non-corrosive, brass cased, reloadable ammo. Not as cheap as mil-surp though.
Yep. When I bought the stuff, it was going for about 9-10 cents a round.
Keywords cheap. It used to be cheap. Then Obama buggered it all up and banned the military surplus. You could get a crate of ammo that had to spam cans in it. That was over 2000 rounds for less than 200 bucks easy. Those days are long gone. BO didn’t want Americans to have cheep steel core ammo. I remember he even tried to ban the US American 5.56 62 grain green tips.
What I had was a Century Arms, it was a typical century of the time poor workmanship, slightly canted sights, not to terribly but nothing great (I traded my duck bill sks for it...which was a great deal for me as I hate the SKS duckbill set up its junk). I didn’t have the old stock or I would have converted it back. I think I ended up selling the AK-74 here, wish I hadn’t always thought I’d find a quality built version someday and well I never did. And I don’t know if the ammo is as cheap as it used to be.
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