Arsenal 101s with midwest industry's goodies, opmod trijicon mro
Not too shabby!
This is a 1997 Romanian CUR-2 AK-74 5.45x39 import. This was a one year import. I have corrected the thumb hole stock and the BS "bushing" at the muzzle. It now sports matching Romy laminate furniture and a Two Rivers Arms custom muzzle adapter for the proper AK-74 flash hider and suppressor.
Just got this latest (DOM 2023) plain WASR-10 from Atlantic for $850, a combo birthday/Christmas present to self. I had a fair amount of experience with AKs, from being issued them from conexs stuffed with them and told to pick one while awaiting gear to catch up, to having an SLR106-FR.
Never looked into these, I recalled an obnoxious kid always at range with an earlier 10/63 mixmaster while I shot the Bulgarian, but his seemed to work MOST the time, and that was all I knew.
This one suprised me by how righteous (which I will say numerous times), has no more mag wobble than the Bulgarian or captured AKs despite lack of dimples, gas block tilted just slightly and in-spec, everything else straight, no castings anywhere, piston not welded to carrier extension (as formerly) and properly pinned with play, a cruder gun than the Bulgarian but just as righteous, and works exactly as an AK should work with semi-FCG.
Have zero plans to change a thing (really no plans to ever even clean it) unless buttstock starts chipping/cracking or I want more weatherproof, where I then would swap to black Arsenal furniture but the wood appears same as early issue AKM beech buttstock, appears oak on gas tube, and oak or beech lower handguard, a really solid little gun.
Has a slight amount of trigger slap with whatever Century installs on latest versions, but no more than my G43.
Even at today's prices, I am very pleased. Just basic parkerized battle rattle, and just what the doctor ordered.
PS- currently only US parts are the pistol grip, the three FCG parts, piston, and slant break. Righteous, with forged and properly riveted trunnion with forged/chromed barrel, forged and properly riveted stock mount, gas block and front/rear sight mounts appear forged and machined (unless they have castings lacking part lines that still require machining), ditto forged/machined bolt/carrier...yep, righteous. If anyone wonders about WASR durability, full auto rental range Battlefield Las Vegas converts them to full auto and gets 80k-100k rounds through them before receiver and/or trunnion cracks.
PPS- As for lacking dimples, whether you wish to say the dimples for minimizing mag wobble and/or to stiffen receiver, the WASR 10 has flanged stiffener plates spot welded (just like the rails) in MIA dimple locations doing same job...my understanding is Century prefers them since hitting a dimple while opening the mag well would/could perforate the receiver (while kissing the plate is a yawner) but Cugir would happily dimple the receivers were Century to want them that way. Any WASR with excessive/reliability compromising mag wobble is purely from an oversized mag well cutout by Century (not common) , which this particular gun does not suffer... and so long as the gun feeds, milspecs are based on function...does it cycle reliably, does it feed reliably, can it be zeroed within sight adjustment range, does accuracy fall within minimum standards, etc etc. Personally, I don't care about dimples so long as the thing works with reliability/longevity not compromised, and this model has the same longevity of any AK. You're not going to get beauty or perfection.with a WASR, but you have an excellent chance of getting a gun that works and works.
Never looked into these, I recalled an obnoxious kid always at range with an earlier 10/63 mixmaster while I shot the Bulgarian, but his seemed to work MOST the time, and that was all I knew.
This one suprised me by how righteous (which I will say numerous times), has no more mag wobble than the Bulgarian or captured AKs despite lack of dimples, gas block tilted just slightly and in-spec, everything else straight, no castings anywhere, piston not welded to carrier extension (as formerly) and properly pinned with play, a cruder gun than the Bulgarian but just as righteous, and works exactly as an AK should work with semi-FCG.
Have zero plans to change a thing (really no plans to ever even clean it) unless buttstock starts chipping/cracking or I want more weatherproof, where I then would swap to black Arsenal furniture but the wood appears same as early issue AKM beech buttstock, appears oak on gas tube, and oak or beech lower handguard, a really solid little gun.
Has a slight amount of trigger slap with whatever Century installs on latest versions, but no more than my G43.
PS- currently only US parts are the pistol grip, the three FCG parts, piston, and slant break. Righteous, with forged and properly riveted trunnion with forged/chromed barrel, forged and properly riveted stock mount, gas block and front/rear sight mounts appear forged and machined (unless they have castings lacking part lines that still require machining), ditto forged/machined bolt/carrier...yep, righteous. If anyone wonders about WASR durability, full auto rental range Battlefield Las Vegas converts them to full auto and gets 80k-100k rounds through them before receiver and/or trunnion cracks.
PPS- As for lacking dimples, whether you wish to say the dimples for minimizing mag wobble and/or to stiffen receiver, the WASR 10 has flanged stiffener plates spot welded (just like the rails) in MIA dimple locations doing same job...my understanding is Century prefers them since hitting a dimple while opening the mag well would/could perforate the receiver (while kissing the plate is a yawner) but Cugir would happily dimple the receivers were Century to want them that way. Any WASR with excessive/reliability compromising mag wobble is purely from an oversized mag well cutout by Century (not common) , which this particular gun does not suffer... and so long as the gun feeds, milspecs are based on function...does it cycle reliably, does it feed reliably, can it be zeroed within sight adjustment range, does accuracy fall within minimum standards, etc etc. Personally, I don't care about dimples so long as the thing works with reliability/longevity not compromised, and this model has the same longevity of any AK. You're not going to get beauty or perfection.with a WASR, but you have an excellent chance of getting a gun that works and works.
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Super nice
Those are beautiful.
Didn't know where else to put this, but if you are like me and appreciate 10rd mags for ease of handling such as in and out of vehicle, and also like the combloc look of ribbed steel, the Polish 10rd mags for blanks can be made to work by removing the welded spacer in front. If you go this route, before drilling/grinding/filing welds, keep in mind there is a flat strip across front which belongs there, top and bottom are same, even if they appear different. But cool little mags for tight quarters. The Arsenal reinforced plastic 10rd is fine, but nothing looks like ribbed steel.
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