Does this look normal for a milled receiver Ak for wear since the carrier contacts the right side. The 2 pictures show the receiver, one is a close up of the side of the receiver and the other is the actual contact spot for the carrier. Probobly more like 1300 rounds. Thanks for looking I just have no experience with milled aks as this is my first.
Please do read it. It is a question regarding receiver strength. Read and respond to your best knowledge and I will never speak of this again and 22many can delete the thread. Please.
Oh come on, I said I don't have any experience with these milled receivers. I just like to tinker, I am going to shoot it today to see just how cleaner it runs, not that it matters really but I like playing around with different ideas. I'm gonna vent the heck outta this gas tube after work today. i start a new job today making almost twice what I made at my previous job of 5 years. Got the first day jitters..Lol.
I'm just reading the thread and feel what should be said is why ask for advice when you keep rejecting the knowledge & answers you received. If you know more the these guys ( im not saying they know it all or are always right ) then dont ask them.... it seems as uf they are fed up & stopped answering anyway ?
Well said tattooo. This thread will go the way of the dodo bird if it still continues on.
Sam7r87, I don't understand your need to constantly mess with your rifle. It is designed to run just fine for many rounds and years in STOCK FORM. Your need to swap this and swap that for some perceived notion that it will perform better is wrong. Want better performance out of your rilfe? Then swap to a better trigger, ad some better sights/optics, or more comfortable furniture but don't mess with the things that make a AK realiable.
You need to understand that the AK rifle is not a AR rifle. When things break or wear out on a AK, many AK owner (myself included) don't buy aftermarket hipro parts. We buy surplus parts. Why? Because they were designed for those parts and they work. It's not like a AR where someone on the market comes out with a "better" part that is suppose to work better. It's a completely different world.
Don't worry about your recoil spring. Shoot the dam rifle and enjoy it.
Buying Bulgarian springs from K-Var is a good way to go and less money than Wolff. Rather than sell or give the problematic Wolff springs to someone just cut them up and toss them and call it a lesson learned.
Buy some advanced training/building books and DVDs on AKs to raise your level of understanding and functioning of the AK; then you will quickly find yourself leaving the gun more stock and seeing the foolishness of so many add-ons & mods.
I got rid of the extra power spring, I will never need it, but I do have a Wolff Standard Power Recoil Spring on the way. Although I have no plans to switch over to it now, why couldn't I use it as a replacement, Wolff makes great springs and if it truley is standard power then there should be no issues right, I mean I already paid for it..which doesn't really matter I guess, if you ak guys out there think I should not run the STANDARD power recoil spring from Wolff and should buy a K-Var one instead (only because I like having spare parts-already have a spare complete bolt, so I have a spare firing pin and spring and extractor and spring, and a bolt which I could make a hood orniment out of because I will never need to replace mine I can bet that haha..if you guys think hell no on the standard power wolff spring then I will go k-var all the way. I am not an add-on tacticool guy, I just like high quality tool steel parts and good after market springs/parts etc.
That's the 1st time I heard Wolf springs mentioned in a negative way. And Kvar in a positive way! Wolf has always been the go to for aftermarket springs and springs for guns no longer in production. And Kvar usually rapes on prices, especially shipping. 5 cent spring, $30 shipping
So I know Jason Dressler pretty well at Century Arms. I sent him the same pics of the receiver and he said that the mark is normal but the bulge of metal from the impact looks screwy. Could some of you with Sam7r's post some pics of your receiver where your carrier contacts. I wanna see if other Sam7's show the same bulge. He thinks I should send the rifle back..don't wanna do that.
I don't think there is a solution this how these guns operate, my only concern is this normal for these receivers to "bulge" in that area, and I wouldn't even call it a bulge, the charging handle looks fine nice and flat where it contacts..
Ya so Arsenal made me feel pretty stupid today, they were like "Dude your trippin on a mark like that? No it is not going to break off, you could run that receiver over with a tank it will not crush or break or crack ever most likely even you being a high round count shooter, that's why you bought the Sam in the first place right, so you didn't have to worry about things that could be problematic in an ak.." They said its normal wear for milled aks. He said welcome to the milled club, that is just how they wear, get over it or sell it. It is fine. So ya I feel like an ass for one, two-stupid, three, I'm just gonna shut my mouth for a while around here and read a little more. Thanks for all the help.
Ummm...that's what the members here said already...ALOT of the members....
Please try to keep in mind that you have come to the best ak website with the most knowledgable members so next time take their words with more validity.
Ya I apologize. I have some personality traits that aren't so cool all the time. I know I worry too much. I have always worried about something on every firearm I have ever owned and come to think of it, it is really hard to enjoy them when I just worry about them. So I am sorry, I didn't mean any disrespect to anybody.
Does this look normal for a milled receiver Ak for wear since the carrier contacts the right side. The 2 pictures show the receiver, one is a close up of the side of the receiver and the other is the actual contact spot for the carrier. Probobly more like 1300 rounds. Thanks for looking I just have no experience with milled aks as this is my first.
FWIW, I would expect a customer service agent at Arsenal to tell you whatever it takes to get you off the phone.
Your picture is too out of focus for me to see, so would you please look at the flat side in the area adjacent to the pad where the carrier strikes? Are there any tiny dimples that aren't merely texture in the steel? If not, are there any dimples anywhere on the receiver?
That's a new, un-assembled Bulgarian receiver. Never had a carrier installed.
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