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74164978231 said:
If you want an AK74SU theres absolutely no reason you shouldnt be buying the one PSA just released. Or if youre a super purist wait until they release the 5.45 version.
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How accessible is 5.45 currently? I know the US currently isn't allowing imported Russian ammo for...reasons...but maybe there's another Soviet bloc country who does still make, use, or export 5.45?
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
The majority of AR-15 owners buy an assembled rifle off the shelf rather than taking advantage of being able to make your own. Generic AR-15 is underrated, a specific product like the "Honey Badger" is overrated.
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Lower Parts kits have become more easier to install with set screws being more available and cassette triggers. It's always the small roll pins that is the hardest part.

Though with uppers, I buy them assembled since I don't know the means to do that barrel nut torque stuff. Probably the only changes I make, is the muzzle brake charge.
 
Dean Pentel said:
I bet they use the government profile barrel on it, like PSA did. I highly dislike that barrel profile. Assuming they're manufacturing these according to the TDP I get why they do it but I'm not a fan.

Especially since you can get a nearly identical rifle from PSA for a lot less money. Doubt the Springfield will perform any better.
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They advertised the rifle for nostalgia.

Though I am not happy to see that M16 clones not being sold with upgraded modern furniture.

Like those curved trigger guards and modern grips with texture and no fucking nubs. And that Magpul 20 inch handguard is much more comfy than the traditional A2 and lighter than the KAC picatinny handguard.
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
How accessible is 5.45 currently? I know the US currently isn't allowing imported Russian ammo for...reasons...but maybe there's another Soviet bloc country who does still make, use, or export 5.45?
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I can talk about Europe: if you're lucky you get surplus and you need to be lucky. All Ukrop/Russian imports stopped for obvious reasons and no one bothers to make them, all the surplus you get is older Russian stuff or german-packaged Soviet/NVA surplus, and that's not going to last for long.

Bulgarians do make 5,45 AKs for civilian use, but I've never seen ammunition. I'd consider madness to buy a 5,45 rifle if not for collection purposes (I did let a DDR 74 escape my clutches last year, goddamn) for recreational shooting buy a .223/5,56 AK, at least you can shoot it without immense bother.
 
RSU 1741 said:
I can talk about Europe: if you're lucky you get surplus and you need to be lucky. All Ukrop/Russian imports stopped for obvious reasons and no one bothers to make them, all the surplus you get is older Russian stuff or german-packaged Soviet/NVA surplus, and that's not going to last for long.
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Nothing from Serbia? Thought they'd be selling it by the crateload.
 
Badungus Kabungus said:
Nothing from Serbia? Thought they'd be selling it by the crateload.
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For what reason? They never made 5,45 military AK, as far as I know. I don't even know if they make civilian copies.

Soviets, Bulgarians, Germans and Poles managed to get 74 production (or 74-derivatives) but I don't think Bulgarians and Poles make ammo (not that they need, NATO members). Prvi Partizan is a specialist in oddball calibers like 8mm kurz, 6,5 Carcano or Spanish mauser stuff, but they never bothered with 5,45 as far as I know. In the civilian market here 5,45 "new production" guns like the bulgarian/chinese clones are quite cheap because the ammunition is surplus or non-existant, no one gets them (and for good reason, I may add).
 
MrJokerRager said:
Lower Parts kits have become more easier to install with set screws being more available and cassette triggers. It's always the small roll pins that is the hardest part.

Though with uppers, I buy them assembled since I don't know the means to do that barrel nut torque stuff. Probably the only changes I make, is the muzzle brake charge.
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Uppers are pretty straightforward - all you need in terms of specialized stuff is a torque wrench and the appropriate crows foot/tool for the nut, a vise and either a reaction rod or something like the Magpul bev block. A full setup for building uppers is like $100 and the wrench and vise are super useful for other shit. If you pick the right handguard, you don't even need to bother timing the barrel nut - just torque it to spec and call it a day.

As for lowers, aside from the roll pin punches, the only specialized tool I have for them is a long roll pin starter punch for the bolt catch pin (I think both KAK and Geissele make one). I can appreciate the move to set screws for that bit though
 
Another image of a field modified Bullpup AKM in use with a VDV Serviceman
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This guy must have been trained by a US Navy detachment seeing as how his LPVO is backwards
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Top loading, forward pump RMB-93 Shotgun with Thermal and Suppressor. Functionality is terrible due to needing to remove the optic to reload the gun, issue could be rectified with the creation of a custom flip to side mount ala RPD-N

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Big Bullet Bandoleer
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Obr. 2018 AK-12 with a 74 style stock, Personal preference or frankenstein rifle made from two damaged examples? Your guess is as good as mine
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A545, PSS Silent Pistol, SR1 and Bushmaster captured in the 2008 Georgian War
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A guy who I believe is an ISIS Fighter with an M16A2 with custom mount for a PSO-1
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HK CAWS
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Something I've never seen before, a South Vietnamese Commando with a CAR-15 with underslung chopped M79
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Mauser once had a prototype design called MP-60, it could launch rifle grenades (although probably not very far)
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A Polish Man (which some eccentric racists would consider very close in Lineage to a monkey) demonstrates the unconventional way in which he grips his AK.

JK Armament some time ago put out an interview with the guy who founded GemTech and has been working in the suppressor industry for 60 years


Imagine for a moment, that you are a secret agent man who uses a revolver for some reason and you have been captured by your Arch Nemesis Professor Asshole or whoever. He has you in a cage and tosses your (seemingly) unloaded revolver into the cage to mock you and then says "nana nana boo boo you can't shoot me because I took all the bullets out of your gun!!!" and then he turns around and drops his pants but little did he know your revolver was equipped with FightLite Redi-Load grips so you do a speed reload and pump a round right up his anus that bisects his heart and comes out the top of his dome.
 

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Dean Pentel said:
It functions fine as a service rifle provided one gives it a modicum of maintenance, but when we have stuff like BCM's lightweight enhanced profile and many like that, why keep that old bullshit?
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Maybe it's just me, but I'd be kinda salty about finding a new-fangled BCG & a modern barrel/twist-rate in something that's supposed to be a circa '03 copy of an off-the-rack A2, especially if all it's meant to do is shoot good 'ol nostalgic green-tip up to 300m.
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Anyone have any experience with / anything particularly bad to say about Magpuls offering in the Glock mag department? Bought a couple of the 17rd glock 19 mags, wont get to shoot them until this weekend though. They seem pretty sturdy, and aside from the last two rounds being a bitch to get in there (which I chock up to it just being a brand new spring) I haven't noticed anything really complaint worthy yet.

Do I have horrible things to look forward to?
 
Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds said:
Anyone have any experience with / anything particularly bad to say about Magpuls offering in the Glock mag department? Bought a couple of the 17rd glock 19 mags, wont get to shoot them until this weekend though. They seem pretty sturdy, and aside from the last two rounds being a bitch to get in there (which I chock up to it just being a brand new spring) I haven't noticed anything really complaint worthy yet.

Do I have horrible things to look forward to?
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I have more than a handful of the G17 mags.
They are probably the best of the non factory mags available but not 100%.
Plinking, training, blasting they are great and keep wear and tear off your factory mags.
Anything that might require serious interaction, like CCW, you want the factory Glork mags.
 
Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds said:
Magpuls offering in the Glock mag
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imho hard to reload and even after the recall from the first few batches, i get hiccups in some models (can't keep up with an 18C, 41 doesnt' feed long OAL consistently, 19 worked fine but 17 had issues with 115gr Speer GD, 21 worked fine, but 26 is impossible to to seat on a closed breech, et c). tl;dr they seem to work fine in the 19 and 21, and 17 (if you use typical OAL ammo). the drums i have no opinion on.
 
Club Sandwich said:
too many people forget about the AR-18
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I've got two stripped lowers for my oldest and myself. Strongly considering getting one of those Brownels BRN-180 uppers for my build, since I'll most likely be doing a KISS defensive carbine/loaner rifle for SHTF, but I'm also considering doing it up for .300 Blk and getting one of those new CMMG uppers with the side charging handle that have don't need the buffer tube and spring so you can mount side-folding stocks. Since I've got a .30 cal can coming soon, I've taken an interest in .300 Blk.
 
got everything together for the dagger i'm building ol' dad. pictures don't do justice, that stainless slide looks slick in person. gonna surprise him with it this weekend. his birthday isn't until the end of the month but i can't piss around for another 20 days since he's already been trying to go shooting and get a pistol of his own. you can't really tell, but i went just a little extra with a fluted barrel.
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