Romak-3/SSG-97 stock question?

[saigasniper]

i want to get the SSG-97 that is on sale at Inter Ordnance, but I WTK if i can change the buttstock and forend to something other than the wood, maybe switch the forend to the all black one on the Tigr/SVD?just wondering

[smokingman]

Don't know about the buttstock, but the forends are totally different. I'm looking for a synthetic for the ssg.
I have e-mailed choate and a couple of other places but so far no one has replacements for them.
The buttstocks really need to be longer on the ssg's.

[sfc ret]

the SVD forearms will not fit the SSG......nor will the SVD buttstock . the SVD buttstock is profiled around the SVD receiver, not a AK. those forearms on the SSG are unique to that rifle.

I looked at a SSG at the last gun show, and it's the same "dragunov" style buttstock that is on the romanian WUM rifles

[saigasniper]

ok, if not the SVD buttstock or forend, what can i use to switch with the original stock and forend. if the reciever is like an AK, can i use Romanian AK stock sets?

[ED4]

You can use standard fitting AK butstock.

Forend you'll have to get from FPK/PSL since they're longer.
http://www.k-varcorp.com/spare/spimages/FPK-003.jpg

If you go to add a pistol grip stock you'll have to add U.S. parts to it and because it has a muzzle brake you'll need 6 U.S. parts. Pistol grip, buttstock, hammer, trigger, disconnector. Are the only parts I can think of that will fit. If you remove the muzzle brake it will be legal.

[saigasniper]

so, i could put in a pistol grip and one of those buttstocks on ACE.Ltd website, they look like the skeletal folding ones. and all i have to do is get the ome made for a romanian AK?

[Danny Boy]

If the WUM stock is the exact same them wouldn't a Drag type AK stock work? That might be different, with some black handguards, it may look real good, or it might not.

[GUNSMOKE]

Dannyboy,
Thw WUM stock is cut differently for the AK stamped receiver they will NOT interchange with the RPK receiver.

SVD buttstocks and U/L forends do not cross applicate.

[ED4]

This is from dragunov.net
http://www.dragunov.net/Romak3.jpg

See the buttstock? Now make your' own decision.

[Danny Boy]

I was under the assumtion that the AKM and SSG-97 were based on the same reciever. From the looks of the original SSG stock the recievers are cut like some of the Romanian AKs so they can't be changed to use a pistol grip and stock.
I should just wait till I get my rifle before trying to figure what's what. Basically that pic is what I want to do with mine when I get it, but with black handguards.

[ED4]

Danny Boy I've not seen any handguards available for them in black. So you'll probably have to stain or paint the originals. The only handguards I've seen forsale for them is from K-Var.

[Otto Skorzeny]

Actually the back end is an add-on to the RPK receiver to accomodate the larger round. A regular stock will fit although on some receivers you might have to cut a hole for the pistol grip nut, which is easily done with a dremmel,cut-off wheel & a small file. The SAR-1 stock is long enough as not to leave a gap.
http://www.gunsnet.net/album/data/500/13637Romak_III_1.jpg But you still need 6 US made parts to be compliant. Here is a pic with US made Stock, Pistol Grip, handguards & US made FCG.
http://www.gunsnet.net/album/data/500/13637SoupBowl2.JPG

[Harquebus]

I always wondered how a standard AKM buttstock would look fitted to the Romak 3 since it has the circular cuts at the rear of the receiver like the WUM-1's. The stocks in the pics that Otto and ED4 posted look like they might accomodate the cut-outs with a radiused area that fits them. Is that the case?

Otherwise a standard AKM buttstock will look funny on a Romak 3 since it has a 90° vertical "ledge" that's supposed to be flush against the rear of a 90° AKM receiver.

BTW: I am saying the WUM-1 and SAR-1 have different receivers folks. The SAR-1 is a standard configured AKM. The WUM-1 is a strange variant produced to better handle those thumbhole stocked AK's that we saw so much about 6-7 years ago.

:ak:

[Otto Skorzeny]

Harquebus,
The top picture is a stock from a SAR-1 It doesn't look too goofy. You could always rasp the vertical edge off if you wanted to. But still need 6 US parts to comply.

[Sivar]

so le tme get this straight, you could use say a buttstock and pistol grip from an ak 100 series stock set and all you would have to do is cut it up a little to make it fit and look decent?