Hi guys just wondering what you AK fans opinions are of different AK manufacturers in order of best on down. You don’t have to own it just have handled it at some point.
AK47s met overseas
Russian milled AK. Smoothest action, fixed, ran great
Russian stamped AK. Great fit n finish, ran like a sewing machine
Chinese Spiker stamped. All but one ran great, like the built in bayonet.
Iraqi feyedeen chrome plated(garbage) Nikel plated novelty gun. Hacked to a 7-8 in barrel, custom Iraqi handguard fell off during full auto
Domestic AK rifles.
Russian Arsenal/FIME converted Saiga. Russian Izzy quality. Smooth action. Laser straight conversions.
Chicoms. Polytech or Norinco. These are quality examples made more towards the original design of the AK as opposed to the AKM.
Arsenal Bulgaria. Awesome AK examples. Almost neck and neck with the Arsenal SGL some would say better
Hungarian. Nice parts kit build. Receiver dependent on overall quality.
Romanian SAR1/WASR. These things just run. Poorest fit and finish lumpy actions, frequent canted sights. But man these things just run and run.
These are just my observations of AKs I have run into over the years. Wish I could own them all but unfortunately I can’t. Lucky enough to have handled them overseas and friends AKs stateside.
Would love to hear about opap npap variants
AK47s met overseas
Russian milled AK. Smoothest action, fixed, ran great
Russian stamped AK. Great fit n finish, ran like a sewing machine
Chinese Spiker stamped. All but one ran great, like the built in bayonet.
Iraqi feyedeen chrome plated(garbage) Nikel plated novelty gun. Hacked to a 7-8 in barrel, custom Iraqi handguard fell off during full auto
Domestic AK rifles.
Russian Arsenal/FIME converted Saiga. Russian Izzy quality. Smooth action. Laser straight conversions.
Chicoms. Polytech or Norinco. These are quality examples made more towards the original design of the AK as opposed to the AKM.
Arsenal Bulgaria. Awesome AK examples. Almost neck and neck with the Arsenal SGL some would say better
Hungarian. Nice parts kit build. Receiver dependent on overall quality.
Romanian SAR1/WASR. These things just run. Poorest fit and finish lumpy actions, frequent canted sights. But man these things just run and run.
These are just my observations of AKs I have run into over the years. Wish I could own them all but unfortunately I can’t. Lucky enough to have handled them overseas and friends AKs stateside.
Would love to hear about opap npap variants