SargeMO
10-14-2012, 10:43 PM
I swapped into a ‘new’ 2008 WASR-10/63. It’s the basic Romanian AK with the plain, threaded muzzle with a nut on it. The wood is ugly by any standards. Its biggest asset is the G2 trigger which breaks right at 4 pounds.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/WASR-10_1.jpg
The front sight base was too crooked to attain zero so I spent the last couple of days ironing that out. I finally got a decent rough-zero with the index marks on the front sight aligned. I also recrowned the muzzle while I had it apart. It’s shooting real well now; these are three rounds of Wolf FMJ at 100 yards, fired while adjusting the windage. This stuff has never been particularly accurate in my rifles, but this one grouped it in 2 MOA when I didn’t screw anything up. I simply can’t shoot stock AK sights any better than that.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/WASR_3at100.jpg
When I got the zero pretty close I moved back to the edge of the field, or about 190 yards. I had three rounds of Wolf FMJ left so I fired them at an 8” bull. One of them didn’t feel right and I’m assuming that is the one that landed left; the gun was shooting a froghair right at 100. The two rounds at five o’clock tell me the rifle is probably outshooting me.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/WASR_3at190.jpg
I’ll probably add some better irons and a siderail that puts the glass over the bore. I’ll have to scope it at some point, to tell how well it’s shooting. A stock configured to fit a full-grown human would help immensely. The best shooting FMJ I’ve used is Barnaul Silver Bear, so some of that is on the ‘get’ list.
It ran through about 100 rounds of Wolf ball & HP w/o any malfs; but being an AK, I'd expect that. I’m real satisfied with this gun.… except for one sharp edge on the dustcover. Sumbich bit me. ;)
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/Bite_Me_Ivan.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/WASR-10_1.jpg
The front sight base was too crooked to attain zero so I spent the last couple of days ironing that out. I finally got a decent rough-zero with the index marks on the front sight aligned. I also recrowned the muzzle while I had it apart. It’s shooting real well now; these are three rounds of Wolf FMJ at 100 yards, fired while adjusting the windage. This stuff has never been particularly accurate in my rifles, but this one grouped it in 2 MOA when I didn’t screw anything up. I simply can’t shoot stock AK sights any better than that.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/WASR_3at100.jpg
When I got the zero pretty close I moved back to the edge of the field, or about 190 yards. I had three rounds of Wolf FMJ left so I fired them at an 8” bull. One of them didn’t feel right and I’m assuming that is the one that landed left; the gun was shooting a froghair right at 100. The two rounds at five o’clock tell me the rifle is probably outshooting me.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/WASR_3at190.jpg
I’ll probably add some better irons and a siderail that puts the glass over the bore. I’ll have to scope it at some point, to tell how well it’s shooting. A stock configured to fit a full-grown human would help immensely. The best shooting FMJ I’ve used is Barnaul Silver Bear, so some of that is on the ‘get’ list.
It ran through about 100 rounds of Wolf ball & HP w/o any malfs; but being an AK, I'd expect that. I’m real satisfied with this gun.… except for one sharp edge on the dustcover. Sumbich bit me. ;)
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/Bite_Me_Ivan.jpg