Well... After all these years, I finally got my first AK... A buddy of mine bough it new late last year, put a few hundred rounds through it, and decided he wasn't an AK guy. He buys and trades stuff all the time just to try it out, so nothing wrong with the gun, he just wanted the stuff I had to upgrade his other rifles. Worked out good for me. He knew I had a bunch of extra scopes I'd pulled off of stuff that were collecting dusk, so I traded him a couple of scopes and some other random parts I had laying around. Not a bad trade. I wasn't using any of that stuff, and probably would never use any of it again, so I figured might as well declutter somewhat and get something useful and different to add to the collection.
While some might snark because of the brand, let me tell you, i'm extremely impressed with the build-quality and quality of the parts in this thing. It's the top-of-the-line AK that PSA offers, the model is the GF5. It has an FN Herstal CHF 16.1" barrel with bore-centric threads (14x1LH), ALG Defense trigger group (best AK trigger I've ever felt). He also added (aftermarket) a Midwest Industries Alpha 10" MLOK rail and optic mount, a Magpul Zhukov folding stock, and Hogue overmold grip. I pulled the whole gun apart (complete strip) cleaned everything & inspected it, greased the bolt & rails and contact points with Aeroshell 33, and reassembled it. Then, I added the new Vortex SPARC 1x red dot that I had sitting new in the box from a combo deal I got with my BRN-180 upper. And yesterday I ordered my JMac Customs 14x1LH KeyMicro 360 for it, so I can run my Sandman-S on it. It should arrive this week. I might end up ordering the Midwest hinged railed top cover for it, but not sure if I want to drop that $250 into it yet. We'll see how good the threads are, and how well it shoots first. Then I'll decide. If it shoots well, I'll probably pull off the Magpul stock, add a 1913 rear trunnion, and put a JMac Customs AB-8R folder like I have on my BRN-180 build.
While some might snark because of the brand, let me tell you, i'm extremely impressed with the build-quality and quality of the parts in this thing. It's the top-of-the-line AK that PSA offers, the model is the GF5. It has an FN Herstal CHF 16.1" barrel with bore-centric threads (14x1LH), ALG Defense trigger group (best AK trigger I've ever felt). He also added (aftermarket) a Midwest Industries Alpha 10" MLOK rail and optic mount, a Magpul Zhukov folding stock, and Hogue overmold grip. I pulled the whole gun apart (complete strip) cleaned everything & inspected it, greased the bolt & rails and contact points with Aeroshell 33, and reassembled it. Then, I added the new Vortex SPARC 1x red dot that I had sitting new in the box from a combo deal I got with my BRN-180 upper. And yesterday I ordered my JMac Customs 14x1LH KeyMicro 360 for it, so I can run my Sandman-S on it. It should arrive this week. I might end up ordering the Midwest hinged railed top cover for it, but not sure if I want to drop that $250 into it yet. We'll see how good the threads are, and how well it shoots first. Then I'll decide. If it shoots well, I'll probably pull off the Magpul stock, add a 1913 rear trunnion, and put a JMac Customs AB-8R folder like I have on my BRN-180 build.
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