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  • #16
    SVT-40
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Jan 2008
    • 12894

    So you've never seen plywood before?
    Poke'm with a stick!


    Originally posted by fiddletown
    What you believe and what is true in real life in the real world aren't necessarily the same thing. And what you believe doesn't change what is true in real life in the real world.

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    • #17
      plinker202020
      Senior Member
      • May 2020
      • 821

      To be fair though, it’s not the “grain” difference that was weird looking, it’s the color, which my pics don’t really show. The top of the hand guard is so much darker than the rest it looks like they ran out of parts and went into a parts bin with different furniture. The Atlantic pics above have the bayonet...the top of the hand guard is close in color to that.

      Like everyone else said though - it’s an AK so I’m not going to lose sleep over it. Can’t wait to get it out to the range to feed it some steel.

      Would buy again - this was not meant to be a knock on WBP or Atlantic!
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      • #18
        toiletfighter
        Veteran Member
        • Jan 2013
        • 3870

        Originally posted by plinker202020
        Indeed
        Chalk it up as a learning experience.

        Some of my favorite AKM and AK74 rifles have the most mismatched and ugly wood. I love it
        Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God

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        • #19
          ACfixer
          Calguns Addict
          • Feb 2012
          • 6053

          OP, to me that's kind of the "beauty" of an AK, they look like guns cobbled together for conscripts. Sure there are some higher on the pecking order, but in a strange way when it comes to garden variety AK's they look even better mismatched like that. If that one piece bothers you, order another for a few bucks. Then go take it out and blast it, then throw it in the bed of your truck. Get it dirty, give it some safe rash. Make it look like it came from a canvas tent in Nicaragua in 1984.

          Then go buy this hat. https://realdealbrazil.com/product/Cuba-Libre/TRDCL

          Last edited by ACfixer; 06-04-2021, 7:15 AM.
          Buy made in USA whenever possible.

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          • #20
            BrokerB
            Calguns Addict
            • Sep 2010
            • 5332

            Wow... I would be very suspect of that FFL.. is this their first wood ak?!
            Beans and Bullets

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            • #21
              plinker202020
              Senior Member
              • May 2020
              • 821

              Biggly impressed with Atlantic Firearms: just got an email from one of their team letting me know they’re shipping a new hand guard to my house today!

              How’s that for customer service? This is the second AK I have bought from them - highly recommended!
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              • #22
                BajaJames83
                Calguns Addict
                • Jun 2011
                • 6036

                pretty normal. While the price of the budget AK has gone up significantly they quality is still a budget AK.
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                USMC 2001-2012

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                James Mattis: Nothing, I keep other people awake at night.

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                • #23
                  ir0nclash86
                  Veteran Member
                  • May 2010
                  • 3601

                  Sounds like riflegear.

                  What if that second handguard comes back even darker than your original.....LOL. hope it works out though OP.

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                  • #24
                    kcheung2
                    Veteran Member
                    • Aug 2012
                    • 4387

                    If that mismatch is a concern, don't ever get a SCAR in fde, those 4 different shades of brown will drive you nuts!
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