Military Weapons Trial, only the Kalashnikov AK 103 finishes the torture tests.

**Belloc** · 11-03-18, 12:52

Well at least one police force in Alaska favors the AK.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...e-departments/

**SteyrAUG** · 11-03-18, 15:31

Originally Posted by 7n6

The extreme environmental tests interest me because a weapon should be good to go in a SHTF scenario. Now the AR is impressive when it's well maintained running decent ammo. However I had a bunch of surplus Guat and Radway that I was running for a while along with steel cased ammo- all because it was cheap. That ammo ran fine through SLR 106's but had some problems running it in my LMT's at the time. Basically the term "under powered ammo" doesn't really apply when running an AK which is already overgassed or an AUG which has an adverse setting.

Don't run steel cased crap in a rifle that wasn't designed for steel case crap. Problem solved.

**Moose-Knuckle** · 11-03-18, 19:31

Originally Posted by Belloc

That certainly used to be the case. The two Kalashnikov variants below are a combination of mostly domestic with some imported parts, but with the exception I think of the bolt, every imported part on these guns is now being also produced in the US, i.e. bolt carrier, receiver, trunnion, front sight post, barrel, safety, FCG, grip, furniture, etc., etc.

If there ever was a complete cut off of importation all AK variants and parts, I would imagine that because of the popularity of the platform, more domestic options would pop up of various quality, then, just like in the AR community, the quality would keep increasing and the cost for those quality rifles and components start decreasing.

The top one, who makes that receiver? It looks similar the Sharp's Brothers who I first saw Jim Fuller discuss on his YT channel about making an accurized DMR around that receiver.

I own more AK's to date than AR's, personally I'm not worried about a parts supply drying up. Then again I don't look to any of mine as primary go to rifles.

I'm all for quality domestically manufactured AK's but they are / would be for the most part cost prohibitive especially when you can pick up a LE6920-OEM1 for under $800 these days.

**Belloc** · 11-03-18, 20:54

Yes, the top rifle is based on a Sharps Bros. receiver. As far as I am able to discover, in the top photo only the bolt and rear sight leaf are not US manufactured parts, and on the bottom Krebs Custom new "Core" rifle, the gas tube, trunnion, and bolt, are the foreign components. So pretty much domestically manufactured AKs.

**RetroRevolver77** · 11-03-18, 21:13

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**Belloc** · 11-04-18, 19:39

The Sharps Bros AK in the above photo I think has a black nitrided barrel.
https://mdcmfg.com/collections/ak-ri...nt=32015546576

Or it may have an imported Polish chromed lined barrel.
https://www.atlanticfirearms.com/pro...reled-receiver

**RetroRevolver77** · 11-12-18, 13:16

The AK-47 born out of arctic warfare from the influence of two fathers Schmeisser and Garand, designed for the forgotten ill equipped soldier to give him at the very least- a fighting chance.

Seeing the weapon through that lens, it's a simple yet brilliantly effective design.

7n6