Aggressive Perfector
08-16-2013, 03:06 AM
Hello all, like many here it seems, I have bought a WASR 10 as my first AK and have decided to discuss it in my first post. So call me generic, the shoe fits. :P I've had this rifle for a few months and though I have already spent a lot of time and over priced steel case ammo shooting it for fun, I have decided to make some improvements on it.
Naturally, I have spent hours reading material all over the net, and getting many conflicting "facts" and opinions about this rifle, and just a little bit of seemingly good information among mountains of utter shit. I mean really, this thing does exactly what I bought it to do. It'll take down a hog (or man, dare he enter my house without permission), has good enough accuracy to hit most anything I aim at (just not necessarily hit exactly where on the target I aim) and I can put a lot of lead down range quickly. It's a damn fun gun. But it has some "flaws" I would like to fix. Like many, I think the stock is uglier than hell, the lack of dimples and mildly excessive mag wobble bother me, and hollow points have a tendency to jam/ mis-feed... I was just going to have a gun smith polish a little bit of a feed ramp in it to help with feeding the hollow points, and was going to refinish the butt stock and hand guards and call it good. But the butt stock broke while I was attempting to remove it from the receiver.
So instead of just refinishing the crappy plywood stuff, or buying the pre-finished Timbersmith plywood stocks, I'm going to put a good hardwood butt stock and handguard set from Ironwood Designs. But then that leaves the receiver... I'm thinking about buying or building a new receiver with the correct dimples and rebuilding the rifle on the new receiver. I figure when I'm done the rifle will look more correct (like an SAR) and possibly cut out the occasional failure to feed caused by the jiggling of the magazine. Thoughts?
Naturally, I have spent hours reading material all over the net, and getting many conflicting "facts" and opinions about this rifle, and just a little bit of seemingly good information among mountains of utter shit. I mean really, this thing does exactly what I bought it to do. It'll take down a hog (or man, dare he enter my house without permission), has good enough accuracy to hit most anything I aim at (just not necessarily hit exactly where on the target I aim) and I can put a lot of lead down range quickly. It's a damn fun gun. But it has some "flaws" I would like to fix. Like many, I think the stock is uglier than hell, the lack of dimples and mildly excessive mag wobble bother me, and hollow points have a tendency to jam/ mis-feed... I was just going to have a gun smith polish a little bit of a feed ramp in it to help with feeding the hollow points, and was going to refinish the butt stock and hand guards and call it good. But the butt stock broke while I was attempting to remove it from the receiver.
So instead of just refinishing the crappy plywood stuff, or buying the pre-finished Timbersmith plywood stocks, I'm going to put a good hardwood butt stock and handguard set from Ironwood Designs. But then that leaves the receiver... I'm thinking about buying or building a new receiver with the correct dimples and rebuilding the rifle on the new receiver. I figure when I'm done the rifle will look more correct (like an SAR) and possibly cut out the occasional failure to feed caused by the jiggling of the magazine. Thoughts?