US made AKs are hot garbage other than like PSA and Kalashnikov USA. Former combloc countries are the experts when it comes to building AKs. I bought a Century RAS 47 and the rifle was starting to eat itself alive after 200 rounds, where I promptly dumped it at a pawn shop and bought a proper AK.
Century is an importer of a ton of firearms that are fine as can be, just make sure it’s imported by them and not assembled, because their shit will blow up.
If anyone is wondering why that is, it's because the tooling to create a stamped receiver requires a huge up-front investment that takes several years to amortize over the life of a product. Since the Soviets produced so many Kalashnikovs (and the machinery to manufacture them), the required initial investment was made several decades ago by a communist government that was using other people's money.
So in order for American produced parts to be cost competitive with rifles built from parts kits sourced from former Eastern Bloc countries, American manufactures have to make a lot of cost-cutting compromises, otherwise their rifles would be significantly more expensive (and if you're going to invest in the tooling to produce a proper Kalashnikov from scratch, you'd probably be better off choosing a more modern rifle... as cool as the AK is, it's a pretty dated design).
US made AKs are hot garbage other than like PSA and Kalashnikov USA. Former combloc countries are the experts when it comes to building AKs. I bought a Century RAS 47 and the rifle was starting to eat itself alive after 200 rounds, where I promptly dumped it at a pawn shop and bought a proper AK.
The guns that they just import rather than build themselves are mostly ok.
Century is an importer of a ton of firearms that are fine as can be, just make sure it’s imported by them and not assembled, because their shit will blow up.
Might be, but I will never buy something out of Russia. If the money ain't going into the American economy, I'm not buying.
If anyone is wondering why that is, it's because the tooling to create a stamped receiver requires a huge up-front investment that takes several years to amortize over the life of a product. Since the Soviets produced so many Kalashnikovs (and the machinery to manufacture them), the required initial investment was made several decades ago by a communist government that was using other people's money.
So in order for American produced parts to be cost competitive with rifles built from parts kits sourced from former Eastern Bloc countries, American manufactures have to make a lot of cost-cutting compromises, otherwise their rifles would be significantly more expensive (and if you're going to invest in the tooling to produce a proper Kalashnikov from scratch, you'd probably be better off choosing a more modern rifle... as cool as the AK is, it's a pretty dated design).