[BitWielder1]

If reliability and safety is not an issue for you, then - it's your call.
Don't blame anyone else when you get hurt.
Just because it happens to work, for a little while, does not mean it's good engineering.

[allwrong57]

This has been done years ago, it does however prove that an AK can be reliable in almost any situation. It has always been perfectly safe to shoot one without the top dust cover, it’s just sheet metal that keeps dirt out.

[sport]

Whoever does this enough is going to have a funeral [theirs]