Every family in America should have what you and your lady have as a minimum. Were I chief cook and bottle washer of this countries homeland defense I’d issue such to every capable adult citizen.
What state requires a 25 yard test, if you don’t mind telling ? I have had a CHL here in Texas since the law came into effect yet seem to remember on a 15 yard target as longest. Your 25 yard effort should be easy if not times as ya well know. Slow determined effort and ya’ll will be fine IMO per my following of your posts. Ya seem to have an above average level of abilities etc .
AK’s are very rough abd basic systems that go bang EVERY TIME. They make a great urban house gun yet even with all my efforts too tweek the MAK90’s that I own they all are less that 300 meter guns of a 18 inch torso target errrrr brisket. Not real sure of an after market trigger. I have pinged Archy and some others who will know is there is a good reliable aftermarket trigger for the AK series.......Good Luck Sir !
Stay safe !
Good deal on the new rigs BTW .......
Here in Iowa the rules vary by county and the sheriff sets them. If you put down ‘self defense’ as your reason on the application our sheriff will not give you one. However ‘often carry at least 500 in cash’ is a good enough reason. Such a nice warm fuzzy to know our lives are worth exactly 500 in cash. He also has the testing requirements set overly high. The test for my Florida permit was not nearly that bad. 10 or 15 yards and I aced it pretty easily even timed.
25 is not impossible as you know but they only defensive caliber handguns we have that Jen likes to shoot are really short barrel. I should be fine with my 1911s but it gave us a good excuse to get here a 5” 9mm. I was going to just wait until the election (local sheriff election is this year) since the guy is retiring and his replacements look much better. But the guy at the gun store I trust pointed out there will be a big rush in the fall after that so we should just get one now and have it updated then. The ones that he issues now have a restriction to only be valid if you have that 500 on you. But the word is the presumptive new guy will swap out permits with that restriction.
I have an SLR101 and even with a poorly sighted in scope I can hit within an inch or two at 100 yards. I don't pay much more attention than that. Without a spotting scope all I shoot at that range are sticks and clays that people leave out on the berm. So all I have to go from for accuracy is the puffs of dirt. I need to get a nice spotting scope before I can do much to tune up my long range skills.
I’ve “heard” (don’t know this from personal experience) that Tapco (http://www.tapco.com) makes a good U.S. made, aftermarket single and double hook AK trigger group.
I havent noticed any 'sting' from my Romanian AK type...got a buffer in it ??? made lots of diff in felt recoil, might take the slam/harmonics outta the trigger ???