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[oak18]

Are you going to continue cycling through elementary questions/rebuttals until one works? Or?

[brianm767]

riley defense rifles are widely seen as junk rifles.

By who? you? This is not what I've seen.

[oak18]

By who? you? This is not what I've seen.

[Zoidberg]

[Zoidberg]

So I did manage to fix the rifle. You can read about it up too in my original post, which I updated to include the details, but to sum it up: Riley Defense misaligned the trigger guard when they riveted it which caused the edge to stick out into the magazine well space. Easy fix, but still annoying and should not happen!

[Jarhead]

Interesting reading https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tec...a-vs-russia-ak

What people do not know, however, is that most Kalashnikovs in circulation around the world have nothing to do with Russia or the Soviet Union. In fact, most were made in China, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Ethiopia, or one of the 20 other countries that produced different versions of the AK..........

What happened was that China also transferred technology to Albania, Sudan and Iran. Even today, Iranians make exact copies of Chinese AKs without any original markings on them........

[SVT-40]

So I did manage to fix the rifle. You can read about it up too in my original post, which I updated to include the details, but to sum it up: Riley Defense misaligned the trigger guard when they riveted it which caused the edge to stick out into the magazine well space. Easy fix, but still annoying and should not happen!

It wasn't the trigger guard that was misaligned, it was the safety stop which fits between receiver and the trigger guard. The safety stop also allows the rear magazine tab to fit properly beneath the magazine release lever whe the magazine is cammed into place. it also provides proper spacing for the magazine.

[Zoidberg]

It wasn't the trigger guard that was misaligned, it was the safety stop which fits between receiver and the trigger guard. The safety stop also allows the rear magazine tab to fit properly beneath the magazine release lever whe the magazine is cammed into place. it also provides proper spacing for the magazine.

You are right. I guess I just considered it part of the trigger guard but it’s a separate part altogether.

Has anyone here ever come across this problem before?

[Dan_Eastvale]

Update 12/29/20: So after a little deliberation, I decided I would not to send it back to Riley Defense, and I would try and fix the rifle myself. So for the first problem, all I did was take a little metal file, a little oil, and polish the hammer so the bolt would have less resistance when contacting the hammer. Seemed to smooth it up just fine. For the second problem, I just switched out the safety lever with a classic AKM lever, rather than try bending the Enhanced Safety Lever that the rifle comes with. I prefer the classic look anyway without the shelf for your index finger and the notch to hold the bolt open. Rifle is fine blyat!

The third problem was a little bit of a head scratcher at first. I took a closer look at the safety lever, and I wondered why the Magpul magazines would fit, but not the surplus magazines? Usually people have the opposite problem in their rifles, right? And I also wondered why no one else was having this problem. Well I looked closely, and I came to the conclusion that the problem was not with the safety lever, but it was with the trigger guard. It seems that Riley Defense riveted the trigger guard slightly forward, and it was not flush with the cut in the receiver for the magwell, which caused a little piece of metal to stick out slightly. Here, I took some pictures so you can take a closer look, and I included a picture from my other AK so you can see how it should normally look. https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...fvgE4joLQvHy_nOriginal Post, 12/26/20:https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...zdeO3A7nBGdP6J

Sloppy manufacturing!

[SVT-40]

You are right. I guess I just considered it part of the trigger guard but it’s a separate part altogether.

Has anyone here ever come across this problem before?

The safety stop is critical for proper magazine fit. It in conjunction with the mag release as well as front trunnion placement will determine if the magazines fit properly.

I hope the safety stop on your rifle wasn't placed to get the mag to fit when the front trunnion was improperly placed.

If all are not properly aligned mag fit will suffer. You can also get the rear of the mags to hit the receiver support if all is not done correctly.

A professionally build gun shouldn't have issues. I've built a bunch of AK's and had to make slight adjustments to get everything to fit properly. I've had one receiver just not work regardless of what I tried....

Try a bunch of different magazines to make sure removing metal from the safety stop didn't make the mag fit to loose.



Having a loose safety selector is an easy fix. All you do is bend the selector lever so it's tighter against the receiver. Try this with the Riley selector.

Smoothing the face of the hammer is a pretty common modification. I usually do this on all of my builds.

Good you are fixing issues yourself. AK's are pretty easy to fix. also shooting it will help smooth the action out.

[fnlrun]

Man thats weird. Mine has about 200 rounds through her and the ONLY problem I've had is that 3rd hole missing
Little AR humor for you purists lol

[Zoidberg]

The safety stop is critical for proper magazine fit. It in conjunction with the mag release as well as front trunnion placement will determine if the magazines fit properly.

I hope the safety stop on your rifle wasn't placed to get the mag to fit when the front trunnion was improperly placed.

If all are not properly aligned mag fit will suffer. You can also get the rear of the mags to hit the receiver support if all is not done correctly.

A professionally build gun shouldn't have issues. I've built a bunch of AK's and had to make slight adjustments to get everything to fit properly. I've had one receiver just not work regardless of what I tried....

Try a bunch of different magazines to make sure removing metal from the safety stop didn't make the mag fit to loose.



Having a loose safety selector is an easy fix. All you do is bend the selector lever so it's tighter against the receiver. Try this with the Riley selector.

Smoothing the face of the hammer is a pretty common modification. I usually do this on all of my builds.

Good you are fixing issues yourself. AK's are pretty easy to fix. also shooting it will help smooth the action out.

The mag fit was suffering because of that safety stop sticking out in front of the mag well and preventing the magazine from fully seating in place. I checked my 3 other rifles, and I encourage you to check yours. It shouldn’t be sticking out that far. I filed it down to make it not stick out, I didn’t file it to make it any thinner. Because you are correct that the magazine fit could suffer if I had done that. I have zero magazine fit problems after filing down that piece, and both P-Mag and Steel Yugo and Korean mags are able to seat and lock in just fine.

[Jarhead]

Man thats weird. Mine has about 200 rounds through her and the ONLY problem I've had is that 3rd hole missing
Little AR humor for you purists lol

[fnlrun]

Wanna run that by me again

[Jarhead]

Wanna run that by me again