Posted on 10/22/2020 5:27:44 AM PDT by marktwain
I don’t have a website up yet, just some of the tooling and materials to make simple parts in-house. All.i got is a 15x20 foot building with some jigs, a small killing machine, a spot welder, a hand-operated hydraulic press, and various bits and reams. Soon hoping to have means to cerakote.
As of now I can only stamp out receivers and populate barrels, drill gas taps, etc.
I also have a hand made sight rig that ensures the front sight tower and gas blocks are pressed perfectly centered. No canting allowed on my guns. Everything laser straight. If it doesn’t meet laser level criteria, I press it apart, ream the pin holes a tiny hair bigger, and press in equally tiny hair oversized pins, which I also have.
There are certain aftermarket parts like Magpul grips, side rails (no rail, no sale) flash suppressors/compensators, things like that, that I wanna make standard on all my guns, with other options, such as PWS/FSC47 brakes, ultima rails, etc also available.
Most semi-auto import rifles have been banned since 1989.
Companies still import most of the parts - usually w/o the receiver - then remanufacture to sell legally in the US.
Using only 7.62 X 39 AKs is a good idea. Chinese .556 AK mags are not interchangeable with Eastern bloc ones. The old .556 mags I got with my first .556 AK did not all fit in my new SLR-106.
Honestly, I don’t have been look at 5.56 AKs.
“Soon hoping to have means to cerakote.”
I had a 1911 cerakoted recently. Very nice.
I don’t cerakote my own stuff. I use different rustolium colors depending on area, season, etc. I basically do my own multicam to mach whatever environment I’m in. I never understood selecting one permanent color, when I can buy a can of oops and oops off the last coat and paint a new coat. Pistols, I get it, but I like my rifles being camoed by my surroundings.
Can’t see paying customers going for home rattle can, hence my need for cerakote apparatus.
I like some of the advantages of the AK over the AR. It is simpler, more dirt resistant, and quicker to clean. I like the .556 due to ammo availability in a SHTF CWII scenario. There is also a wider selection of the .556 ammo available.
There is a old firearm adage that says always get the weapon in the caliber it was designed for to increase reliability. My SLR-106 and Galil were pretty much problem free, however my SLM-7 and SAR-3 had issues.
I still have relative ease finding 7.62x39. I went into academy a couple weeks ago looking for those and .45 auto. I was shocked (SHOCKED, I tell you!) to find ONLY those two calibers in stock! All the rest was wildcat rounds I never heard of and don’t remember, and only 3-4 boxes at that. Some 12 guage too, but that’s it. I got their last box of .45 hornady +p, which was their last box of .45 anything, but they had about 50 boxes of 7.62. No 5.56 anywhere to be seen, much to the dismay of my AR guy roommate
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