Well, the weather this morning was a little breezy and cold, but sunny.
I decided to git 'er done and try out the new Classic.
I knew when I bought this rifle it would be mostly a safe queen, but I do plan to shoot it once in a while also. Let the SA M7 Carbine get blood, sweat, and tears on it. The Classic gets the babying.
I decided to shoot Federal American Eagle FMJ's in it. No way ComBloc ammo is touching this baby.
I went to an old rock quarry about thirty minutes from where I live. Distances are around 100 yards, give or take.
The rifle was more or less perfectly sighted in at the factory. I didn't touch the elevation or windage. I had a few misses, but I suspect it was me pulling the shots. I caught myself jerking the trigger a couple of times.
Still, when the sights were perfect and I did my part, the rifle hit the target every time.
I was also pleasantly surprised to find that my Classic has a two-stage trigger. All of my Arsenal AK's have the new Metal Injection Molded hammer and disconnector, and what appears to be a Bulgarian trigger.
Only the Classic, however, has a two-stage trigger. Either this is a happy accident, or Arsenal took the extra time to equip all the Classics with two-stage triggers.
Out in the bright sunlight, I noticed the stock had a couple of dents in it.
Oh well. I'm not sure whether to blame Arsenal or Jensen, but those dents are there even though they don't appear to be anything more than cosmetic. That baby-shit yellow furniture is going to have to go someday anyway, I think.
Reliability, of course, was 100%.
Overall, I'm glad I got the rifle.
Good Lord willing and the crick don't rise, I plan to make this my last milled Arsenal AK.
I see no better way to bring this part of my collection to a close than to end with the version of the SA M7 rifle that first attracted me to start buying Arsenal's Las Vegas made guns back in 2002.
I decided to git 'er done and try out the new Classic.
I knew when I bought this rifle it would be mostly a safe queen, but I do plan to shoot it once in a while also. Let the SA M7 Carbine get blood, sweat, and tears on it. The Classic gets the babying.
I decided to shoot Federal American Eagle FMJ's in it. No way ComBloc ammo is touching this baby.
I went to an old rock quarry about thirty minutes from where I live. Distances are around 100 yards, give or take.
The rifle was more or less perfectly sighted in at the factory. I didn't touch the elevation or windage. I had a few misses, but I suspect it was me pulling the shots. I caught myself jerking the trigger a couple of times.
Still, when the sights were perfect and I did my part, the rifle hit the target every time.
I was also pleasantly surprised to find that my Classic has a two-stage trigger. All of my Arsenal AK's have the new Metal Injection Molded hammer and disconnector, and what appears to be a Bulgarian trigger.
Only the Classic, however, has a two-stage trigger. Either this is a happy accident, or Arsenal took the extra time to equip all the Classics with two-stage triggers.
Out in the bright sunlight, I noticed the stock had a couple of dents in it.
Oh well. I'm not sure whether to blame Arsenal or Jensen, but those dents are there even though they don't appear to be anything more than cosmetic. That baby-shit yellow furniture is going to have to go someday anyway, I think.
Reliability, of course, was 100%.
Overall, I'm glad I got the rifle.
Good Lord willing and the crick don't rise, I plan to make this my last milled Arsenal AK.
I see no better way to bring this part of my collection to a close than to end with the version of the SA M7 rifle that first attracted me to start buying Arsenal's Las Vegas made guns back in 2002.