I found this picture on the Web. The Iraqi soldier marching directly at us seems to have a milled-receiver rifle with a plastic East German buttstock (!) somehow grafted onto it. (Yugo or Tabuk pistol grip, too).
I have never seen this stamped-receiver buttstock modified for a milled rifle before. Anyone know how or why they would do so?
I found this picture on the Web. The Iraqi soldier marching directly at us seems to have a milled-receiver rifle with a plastic East German buttstock (!) somehow grafted onto it. (Yugo or Tabuk pistol grip, too).
I have never seen this stamped-receiver buttstock modified for a milled rifle before. Anyone know how or why they would do so?
The Iraqi Army has been getting a lot of those Arsenal AK's but sadly many are still making their way into the hands of bad guys due to officers selling them, working with them, or unfortunately getting killed and being stripped of them by someone.
The general Iraqi male is very adamant to choose the Russian AK's when available and they're about $700 these days here. A Chinese is about $400. They don't like the Chinese AK and it seems everyone has a story about why. But it's funny - I had an Iraqi once holding a milled Chinese AK and he was bragging about how his "Russian" rifle was way better than the Chinese ones as it has not failed him yet. Some seem to think that the milled rifles are Russian and the many of the stamped ones are Chinese, etc.
An LT here has a Romanian AKM with an East German folding stock, a Chinese wood upper handguard, and a Russian lower. But I guess we should be thankful - at least the Iraqi who didn't need it anymore was clever enough to find a folding buttstock instead of leaving it without one as they often do here.
Yes, possibly an Arsenal milled rifle, or maybe a ChiCom Type 56 as Rayman1 mentioned.
What I find remarkable is the buttstock. The East German's didn't make the pebbled plastic butts for milled rifles, and a stamped-receiver buttstock (pictured below) won't fit onto a standard milled receiver without some serious surgery. I'm wondering why they would bother.
You will also note that the buttstock in that picture is black, not brown. I swear I remeber hearing something about black pebbled buttstocks that were U.S. made, but for the life of me I can't remeber where I read that...
This pic of the pebble stock on the milled rifle has been out there a long time. I just don't know. It's possible someone managed to fit a plastic pebble stock into a milled receiver with some serious modifications, and this seems the most likely explanation.
There's no indication the DDR ever made plastic pebble buttstocks for milled rifles.
Many of the export rifles built from 88 on had them. Unfortunately most of the nations they went to, like Iran, aren't going to send a flood of parts kits to us anytime soon.
Many of the export rifles built from 88 on had them. Unfortunately most of the nations they went to, like Iran, aren't going to send a flood of parts kits to us anytime soon.
Many of the export rifles built from 88 on had them. Unfortunately most of the nations they went to, like Iran, aren't going to send a flood of parts kits to us anytime soon.
Yeah,that sucks big eggs.
Im curious as to why none of the American guys who make stock sets have not thought of it and made an American EG stocksets in other colors.Maybe its too small of a market.
I saw a polytech legend about 3 years ago walking thru a phoenix gunshow with a Romanian g buttstock cobbled onto it. an early diamond checkered type 2 pistol grip and black polymer forarms kinda drove me nuts. the guy had just bought it and wouldn't sell me the grip for 200 bucks said he would think about it my last higher 3rd offer. yow! the stamped black ddr buttstock could be fitted but the bottom front screw has nothing to screw into from looking inside. the stocks are now made in iran nextdoor.
More than likely and armorer fit the stock to the gun too make it work, not a terribly uncommon thing over there- saw things like that a few times there and Afghanistan.
If you blow the photo up you can see that the joint line between the rear of the receiver and the wrist of the stock is not aligned correctly and there is a rather large gap there that should not be. Did they remove the bottom tang for the butt stock- I don't know or did they do a little chisel and file work on the stock to make it fit?
If you look close enough, you will see the guy behind him has the same stock, but a Hungarian grip. There is a second hungarian grip behind him as well and one in the other line.
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