AK-100 series polymer 5.5mm trunnion stock - Izhmash logo?

Firebolt1176 · Apr 14, 2020

From what I've read/heard, AK-74Ms (and other AK-100 series issued in limited numbers) in Russian military service lack the Cyrillic Izhmash logo on the stock, just behind the scope rail cutout.

However, civilian - and, what I'm more interested in, export rifles even for military contracts - DO have this Izhmash logo, pictured below.

https://i.imgur.com/e050DBX.jpg

Can someone confirm on this either way? I'm working on a Venezuelan AK-103 clone from supposedly a "Venezuelan contract overrun" Saiga 2006 and would like to know which is more "correct" for that particular rifle.

Stottman · Apr 14, 2020

From buying and selling allot of the 5.5mm AK100 stocks during the early 2000s, the logoed stock was the rarer of the two. All the stocks I was dealing with were sold as factory "spare parts" for the "Saiga" in Izhevsk.....

Knowing the Russians though, they probably used whatever was in stock.

Firebolt1176 · Apr 14, 2020

Thanks a bunch. So in your opinion, either one would be ok for an export Venezuelan AK-103 build? (I can definitely see the Russians using whatever is available, given that a lot of their AK-74Ms in the Crimea takeover seemed to be updated AKS-74s.)

AK-100 series polymer 5.5mm trunnion stock - Izhmash logo?

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