That, my friend, is a worthy endeavor. Sounds kind of like a dream job to me.
Of course it always does when you’re not the one paying the bills :D
That is my dream, pretty much. I would also like to further develop the round itself, but I’m not sure how to set about doing that. For now I’m just happy pouring my heart into quality arms, and I selected the AK because it’s always been my favorite. We’re thinking of the name Widow’s Patch Arms, because it was my father’s land and he outlived my mother for a while. My wife is an artist and she’s doing our emblem
The problem with the AKs is that they’re usually assembled out of crap parts in a 3rd world plant with no more than a rubber mallet or, at best, a hydraulic house Jack with no thought to squaring up the barrel to the action. Then you’re gonna have rather serious accuracy issues. It takes an EXTREME level of care to get it right, as it’s a very highly sensitive procedure and will make or break the rifle overall. I like Chinese production best because in modern times, they do that by means of a robot that presses the necessary parts in perfectly with run off barely measuring in the 10,000ths of an inch bracket. It came a long way from the 50s, or even the 80s