My Top 6 Under Estimated AKs: More Stories, Bits Of Trivia, & Some Conspiracy Theories

[@BNatoAk]

Great idea doing this AK specific channel.

[@bigshug3127]

Much love Misha. You have incredible knowledge, its not "trendy" or "what's in style" I got the glocks, got the ars with all the toys its.. fine. I love my pac hellpup. Especially once it was dressed with a brace and linear comp. I'm getting a 16in next, thinking one of the nicer wbps. The hellpup is just a bit much on the ears for hog hunting

[@liamhunter071]

Enjoying the new channel! The amount of your knowledge is kick ass!

[@GunSperg]

One of my friends who is an AK fanatic like me bought a WBP Fox earlier import, I too was a little skeptical, he talked me in to picking up a Jack and the rifle has probably the nicest fit & finish I’ve seen. One of my close relatives was looking in to getting an AK “pistol” and I suggested the Mini Jack, it is very nice, perfect fit and finish, very accurate. Everyone who has handled a WBP seems to become a believer lol. The Beryls are probably the highest quality imports available right now honestly, I think a lot of people will look back and regret not picking one up in 5.56, 7.62x39, and a mini. I missed out on the KP9 and KR104. I do plan on trying to locate at least a KP9 in the near future if possible

[@slatertyler]

Glad to find this channel - I've heard you talk about this new project but this is the first time I have seen it in my Suggested feed. Let's see all the lists! Love 'em.

[@JJW3]

My Bulgarian AKS-74 parts kit has the double-rivet bullet guide and Tula forge code on the trunnion. What is also interesting is that the area where the serial number is located was shaved down before being marked with the Bulgarian circle 10, date code, and serial number.

[@misha5670]

Looking at the Bulgarian RPK74 kits we got in some years back, I'd bet anything those parts were originally made by Molot. Perhaps the wood furniture could have ben Bulgie but some kits came with plum polymer stuff, and that was definitely made in Russia.

[@michaelbirdsong196]

Love the new channel ! I have many regrets during my time in the variant of Aks . But I’m glad with the kits I do have and the ones being built at the moment ! Great video

[@scottjackson4473]

Love the new channel

[@GunpowderNitro]

I 100% agree about wbp i was a little sketch buying my wbp jack rifle but was honestly amazed at the build quality for the money defanatly one to buy and put under the bed once these babies r gone everyone will wish they hadnt listened to people that dosent or havent ever owned one. loving the ak content man 💯

[@letsgetit90]

Did you put the KNS pistol on it?

[@surferofthesynthwaves4710]

It's commercial. Plus the trunnion isn't spec correct

[@GunpowderNitro]

@@surferofthesynthwaves4710 and psa kusa riley all commercial the only real choice is arsenal these days the beryl is the ugliest ak made to date not to mention it has alot of proprietary parts so u have speced every wbp trunnion and there not correct that what's your trying to sell get out of here with that here say u tell me what makes them out of spec what's wrong with them go on tell me the diffrence. I will wait on your reply and wisdom

[@GunpowderNitro]

@@letsgetit90 no my jack is the 7.62 variant

[@misha5670]

@@surferofthesynthwaves4710 How is the trunnion not spec correct?

[@alexander1902]

Great vid, Misha. I know somewhere in that AK room you have an off the books Vietnam bringback AKM.

[@misha5670]

You can't proove anything though, now can you? Besides....attics are beter for such things...theoretically.

[@aaronfarnsworth7653]

@@misha5670 Uncle Ho said it was an artistic peace pipe. Kind of an industrial/woodland fusion. It has that big rectangular bowl with the spring loaded ash release handle.

[@misha5670]

@@aaronfarnsworth7653 "display gun" and "relic" lol

[@stonehalo1632]

What's your favorite ak or sks sling, canvas vs leather, or metal clips vs leather tabs? Maybe the pros and cons of each? I don't know what channel that would fall under, but still an interesting and rather entertaining topic for another episode.

[@user-oj5jr8rm4z]

I hear kusa was bought and is currently going through a management restructure and switching factories

[@EnlightenedAtheistPhotog-mh1ty]

I really hope they don't go bust. PSA, pioneer, and century are not the benchmark for a domestic AK. If KUSA got their **** together they would be.

[@donjohnson5172]

Pioneer isn't even domestic tho

[@Adam-zi5se]

@@donjohnson5172pioneer is still ass

[@EnlightenedAtheistPhotog-mh1ty]

@@donjohnson5172 You are right, I guess it's similar to the century cgr. My hope is some company can build AK properly in the US and cheapers options would follow suit. The cost cutting is always killing domestic made.

[@SeeFourSandwiches]

How do you clean your rifles? I usually listen to your videos while I'm cleaning mine. It's never occurred to me to ask how you clean yours.

[@cmdrcriton]

I kick myself for not buying a slr-105....... that stock set on yours is beautiful.

[@jasonkerbs806]

If i was too buy an 7.62x39 AK today, that is readily available, that has a large after market pool, what is the best quality AK? Dont say arsenal or some other nonesense i cant get my hands on, i mean available to buy at the moment

[@Adam-zi5se]

Arsenals are available still.

[@letsgetit90]

The wasr-10 are solid, and after-market parts are affordable and available. I got mine for 700, even tho I live in California. I will swap out the stock and get a Magpul, the handrail, and the amount. Some folks like and dislike PSA. But I have many more positive reviews on their GF Gen 5 ak. I don't have one, but I heard you can use many after-market parts. The m70 is another excellent choice. It might be tricky depending on what parts you are trying to get, but you can mostly get most of the parts. I have the m90, and the m90, m70, and other guns all use similar accessories. So far, I have bought a mount for it, and the price was decent. I have the Beryl in 5.56, and the gun is a fantastic shooter, but the accessories can only be swapped with Polish parts. My dam mount cost 150! If you want to swap and update the parts, it will cost you an arm and a leg compared to a wars-10 and other guns. I don't have a Jack or a Fox, but I know they only take Polish parts, so the after-market parts for the Polish guns and Zavsta firearms are limited to their markets.

[@misha5670]

@@letsgetit90 Nope, the Jack takes the same parts as a WASR10.

[@jasonkerbs806]

@@paullllehtx good to know, I'll check it out, thanks

[@CharlesConover]

545 Gone the way of the dodo

[@misha5670]

Really no worse than it was when it got into it with my SAR2 in 2002-2003. It was always going to be an obscure caliber in North America.

[@surferofthesynthwaves4710]

🦤

[@aaronfarnsworth7653]

@@misha5670 Its funny, when I see the 6 ARC and 22 ARC I immediately think of the 5.45. Short fat appearing cases with long skinny bullets. Rather like the 6.5 Grendel and the x39. Now the russians are working on various 6mm versions of cartridges. The never ending circle of one side copying or adapting the other's ideas and vice versa. lol

[@Front-Toward-Enemy]

The Arsenal slr-107cr was the AK I regret getting rid of the most. Sold it for $1400. They go for $3000+ now so buying another one is out of the question.

[@luked2767]

It goes to show how costly a decent quality AK is to produce if you don't have a huge state owned factory like the ones in Russia. Any nation that has CNC machines. It would be cheaper to produce something based off the AR15 or a modernised AR18. Many friendly nations are moving away from AKs and especially standard AKMs I feel for most nations that don't have huge factory's AR15 type rifles or modular rifles are cheaper to produce with less man hours. Quite a few governments have purchased select fire AR15 type rifles that can take AK mags as they want to be able to use optics. Lights , lasers with their existing stockpile of ammunition. It would be really cool if a company like recreator made some parts so you could take a standard AKM WBP or Romanian kit and then have them make or modify the existing parts so it's more of rare clone build with engravings and markings on the receiver. While it would never be the real deal aslong as most of the main parts like the front and real reunion, bolt, bolt carrier, barrel and such is imported it would still be great. I was happy that PSA made a Chinese spiked as I had a slant back mak90 that was not threaded, I managed to buy some parts from PSA to do the front end conversion to a spiker, get a Chinese receiver with Chinese markings and some surplus parts, I did not get the barrel threaded as the PLA T56 rifles don't have threaded barrels. But it was nice that I was able to get all the parts to make it look like the real deal while the main componants of the rifle where still Chinese. I have quite a few kits left, some of the Romanian virgin kits I have as I already own quite a few Romanian rifles I have been playing with the idea of building, modifying and getting them engraved as "what if guns" for example having a Crystanantum on the front sight block, the Tokyo arsenal stamp on the trunion, 7.7mm short as the caliber designation, Type 35 as thebrifoe designation, maybe modifyig an existing bayonette so its more of one like an Arisaka and maybe even modifying the stock and front handguards. You could do it for any nation. I feel lucky I have a nice example of a matching east German with the original barrel, I could never hope to get a North Korean. It would be nice if FB or cugir imported barrels that you could profile. Recreator once sold a fully assembled virgin Romanian AK without any of the FCG holes drilled as an 80% and no FCG... If they did class front trunions as the receiver then a company like WBP could import the parts kits and build them then export them as sporters with an unthreaded barrel, and welds on the bayo lugs to be milled off with the furniture and FCG sent separately. I've allways felt AKs are so fun to shoot, they are modern but they still have the 1940s wood and steel vibe with alot of character and what used to be very cheap ammunition 7.62 has the same power as .30 30 but was 20c a round not long ago, 7N6 out of a 74 barrel has more power than most 5.56 out of a 14.5" - 16" and was under 8c a round in bulk, 54r a full powered rifle round used to be cheaper than 9mm. But at the moment I don't want to waste any 7N6 as it's so valuable and it will probably never come back. I think Vietnam could export if they wanted to as the US sells weapons to them and they make good AKs, Bangladesh also makes Type 81s Norinco sold most of its type 56 machining to African nations so no idea but I wonder if Albania can still produce.

[@aaronfarnsworth7653]

Maybe someone could go around the world buying the tooling for the various versions of ak? A new reformed KUSA producing correct versions, in all details, of the world of AK models.

[@CaptainCoons]

I've alway wondered why in Europe were no staped arsenal AKs. While in the USA there were. However there was ISD Bulgaria in Europe that has made stamped AKs. So where did the US get their stamped arsenals from?

[@skinwalkerhiddenvalleyranch]

Glad i got 5 quality imports before i bought ar's, bullpups etc

[@davehardesty3649]

With WBP doing 545 guns now, do you foresee them offering a side folder in 545?

[@misha5670]

A Polish side folding stock fits fine on the 545 Jack.

[@aaronfarnsworth7653]

I think I'd prefer Bonnie over Stormy.

[@АлакПатрова]

Love my 5.45 WBP

[@surferofthesynthwaves4710]

Just hope you never need to replace the barrel

[@АлакПатрова]

@@surferofthesynthwaves4710 why? You can readily find barrels in 5.45 plus I can't afford to shoot out a 5.45 barrel with current ammo prices

[@misha5670]

@@АлакПатрова Its possible a Romie PA86 spec barrel wouldn't work (at least not w/o mods) and a Polish Tantal would be pretty different; but I'd think a standard AK74 would work? That said, the WBP is based on the AKM more than the AK74 so I am not 100% sure they used the same barrel profile, but I don't know why they wouldn't?

[@ctnke]

bro has so many aks he can single handedly rearm the ussr military

[@calvinnewberry5915]

Don’t know what’s happening Kusa sent me a email offering a pre production one hundred series for order as a new product about to launch maybe they are not dead after all😊

[@markbilyeu6326]

I sold my FEG. Kicking my self😞

[@makidiaz3894]

You only live once, let’s hear more conspiracy theories

[@M81_WOODLAND]

As much as I'd like to think I've learned a lot about AKs, I don't know enough to hate on any of them. Buy what you can. I've realized this though: don't go on the internet if you didn't buy the right one, it's not Gucci or not "correct" because folks will come out of the woodwork to clown on you. The AK community isn't a forgiving or helpful bunch.

[@michaelbirdsong196]

You meant to say the Reddit community is not a helpful bunch . Those of us who know Aks love to help newcomers . I was there before .