please help me educate this guy !! Or educate me ! MAADI MYSTERY!

[SteyrAUG]

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Sorry to keep bombarding y'all but I do appreciate all the feedback , he's also got this ak .. But he doesn't know what parts it has other than the mk99 receiver

Peshawar is correct again. Another piece of junk.

And PLEASE do keep asking questions before you spend a dime. I'd advise steering clear of this guy as he has garbage for sale and thinks he has crown jewels.

If you are looking for a basic AKM find a Romanian SAR-1 rifle. Make sure it's not a WASR but a SAR-1. Won't be the prettiest thing you've ever seen but it will be a factory correct AKM, expect to spend about $750.00 and just make sure you get one that doesn't have canted sights.

Keep in mind there are all kinds of AKs and lots of times people don't even know what they have. And parts kits rifles can be a grab bag kind of thing. If you have a Polish kit in great condition with the original barrel on a Nodak receiver built correctly, you have a great rifle. If you have Romanian G kit on a JoeKen or ITM receiver built at home by a novice, you probably have a piece of garbage.

The big issue is AKs aren't ARs, they typically can't be built at home with the same ease. And once you install things like the barrel things are kind of set in stone regardless of if you got it right or not. You can't uninstall it and start over like you can with an AR.

[Dave_M]

A screw build with junk parts?


No. No chance.

[SteyrAUG]

A screw build with junk parts?


No. No chance.

LOL. I was gonna ask wtf was wrong with those rivets. Been awhile since I've seen an AK that messed up. Saddest part is that's probably a factory barrel that could have been a decent shooter on the right receiver with the right build.

[Bret]

That would be a Maadi kit built on a Nodak Spud commercial American receiver.

As Peshawar noted it's a kit build on a Nodak receiver

Actually, it's not even built on a NoDak Spud receiver. That's a Ohio Ordnance Works (OOW) receiver.
http://www.ohioordnanceworks.com/rif...-receiver.html

[Peshawar]

Actually, it's not even built on a NoDak Spud receiver. That's a Ohio Ordnance Works (OOW) receiver.
http://www.ohioordnanceworks.com/rif...-receiver.html

Yup, you're right. Just saw it from my phone and didn't zoom in enough. Looked like that familiar Nodak matrix style engraving.

[SteyrAUG]

Yup, you're right. Just saw it from my phone and didn't zoom in enough. Looked like that familiar Nodak matrix style engraving.

Got me too, I missed the OOW.

[Iraqgunz]

In the future let's try not to start a hundred threads on one subject. I saw that OOW and realized "oh joy an Ohio Ordnance Works parts gun". Maybe AK's aren't that easy to slap together.....

[BCO30]

I think I see AK 47S on the bottom of the receiver as well. I have the same markings on a Chinese Polytech that was bought and made in the Clinton years. Clinton era Post ban. Ak 47 S (SPORTER).

[SteyrAUG]

I think I see AK 47S on the bottom of the receiver as well. I have the same markings on a Chinese Polytech that was bought and made in the Clinton years. Clinton era Post ban. Ak 47 S (SPORTER).

Not really related. And I'm betting your Polytech is actually a AKS-762 SP.

[Dave_M]

LOL. I was gonna ask wtf was wrong with those rivets. Been awhile since I've seen an AK that messed up. Saddest part is that's probably a factory barrel that could have been a decent shooter on the right receiver with the right build.

The only positive thing about a screw build is that it's generally pretty easy to tear them apart so it can be properly riveted. Screw builds were invented so that AK's could be built from kits without having to pull the barrel. So, fewer tools required (no press needed, no rivet tools etc) and "no need" to check head space. All of this assuming, of course, that it was properly head spaced in the first place and that lots of time and care was taken during the build. Takes far longer to do a screw build than to rivet. I've seen a whole lot of crap work done and nice components destroyed by careless people over the years.

One example which sticks out in my mind was someone who drilled through the old rivets... and through the barrel all the way into the chamber. He then tried to, "fix it" with JB weld. You can imagine how well that worked. Then of course you have the people that do a screw build, fill in the socket heads with epoxy so they look like rivets, and then refinish.

...and to think people ask me why I never bother to look at kit-build guns at gunshows or shops...