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Wow.
It's lucky that AKs are easy to fix because I see some profound misconceptions being shared by AK fans.
You don't use crap ammo to figure out if your gun is picky about ammo.
I can't imagine how you could design a gun to work better with steel cased ammo than brass cased.
The genius of the AK design is that it functions despite crap ammo.
If you are trying to eliminate ammo as a variable, you need to use known good ammo. That means clean brass cased surplus or good commercial brass cased ammo. If it still jams with known good ammo, then you know it's not the ammo.
There is nothing magic about a Russian AK, there are plenty of "vodka builds" that don't run right.
I don't know about the problems that I.O.'s have but there is no reason why they can not produce a good AK, apparently they just don't. Maybe they have something stronger than vodka, like salvia?
Once you eliminate ammo and magazines as the cause, then you've got to actually look at what is going on inside the gun. Once you understand how the fire control group is supposed to work, you should be able to figure out why the trigger does not reset every time. After that look at the ejection.
You might discover some other issue while you are looking at the trigger and ejection, after you know everything that is wrong, you can determine the best solution.
Remember, any gun you shoot has to contain a small explosion just inches from your face. You are taking a big risk if you don't understand exactly what's going on in there.
Stalin probably didn't care if some Russian conscript or an African communist had an AK blow up in their face. I take an interest in making sure my face does not get blown up.
You should be concerned too.
It's lucky that AKs are easy to fix because I see some profound misconceptions being shared by AK fans.
You don't use crap ammo to figure out if your gun is picky about ammo.
I can't imagine how you could design a gun to work better with steel cased ammo than brass cased.
The genius of the AK design is that it functions despite crap ammo.
If you are trying to eliminate ammo as a variable, you need to use known good ammo. That means clean brass cased surplus or good commercial brass cased ammo. If it still jams with known good ammo, then you know it's not the ammo.
There is nothing magic about a Russian AK, there are plenty of "vodka builds" that don't run right.
I don't know about the problems that I.O.'s have but there is no reason why they can not produce a good AK, apparently they just don't. Maybe they have something stronger than vodka, like salvia?
Once you eliminate ammo and magazines as the cause, then you've got to actually look at what is going on inside the gun. Once you understand how the fire control group is supposed to work, you should be able to figure out why the trigger does not reset every time. After that look at the ejection.
You might discover some other issue while you are looking at the trigger and ejection, after you know everything that is wrong, you can determine the best solution.
Remember, any gun you shoot has to contain a small explosion just inches from your face. You are taking a big risk if you don't understand exactly what's going on in there.
Stalin probably didn't care if some Russian conscript or an African communist had an AK blow up in their face. I take an interest in making sure my face does not get blown up.
You should be concerned too.
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