@IUKalash429 you sorta know my situation, made it even more shocking!!View attachment 186527
When my wife tells me not to trade one of my AK’s for over $2000 worth of silver… I’ll be looking for the second coming sooner than later. LOL
@IUKalash429 you sorta know my situation, made it even more shocking!!
We have just received word that our supplier will no longer have access to Romanian AK's. There are no more md.65 kits coming out of Romania while the Russia-Ukraine crisis stands.
NATO countries bordering Ukraine are donating all of their military surplus to fight Russia. Ukraine still uses 7.62x39 and fields AK-47's as their standard issue rifle. These md.65's only get de-milled after they are purchased are are stored as complete rifles.
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I know when they were asking people to come there and join their military, they said you could bring your own gun but said the only ammo they had to pass out was 5.45, so I don't know what to think.I thought the AK-74/5.45x39 was Ukraine's standard issue rifle/cartridge, but nevertheless they certainly have mountains of 7.62x39 blasters in service and reserves. But more is always better.
Here's another fun one - a Sino-Soviet SKS. It remains caked in cosmo, even after an hour-long heat gun treatment in the garage. The whole barrel, and I mean the entire thing, was plugged with the stuff. I managed to pull out a 20" strand of what looked like one of those Cow Tail candies (which somehow seems more disgusting than Cosmoline).
Lots left to clean and not much free time these days, but I'm excited to examine this thing a bit more closely. The stock is wonderfully beat up. Seriously, the repairs are quite interesting, but the metal is in surprisingly good shape. Also a surprise? All parts match - nothing forced here. And, it's a three-digit serial number. I've not seen that before with these guns, so that itself will require a bit more digging.
Anyway, enough typing...
Nice, have you ever used brake cleaner to clean off cosmoline? Very efficient, I've done many Mosins with brake cleaner and the stocks get a hot sun tan to leech the cosmoline out of the wood.
Love it. Sino's are the bees kneesHere's another fun one - a Sino-Soviet SKS. It remains caked in cosmo, even after an hour-long heat gun treatment in the garage. The whole barrel, and I mean the entire thing, was plugged with the stuff. I managed to pull out a 20" strand of what looked like one of those Cow Tail candies (which somehow seems more disgusting than Cosmoline).
Lots left to clean and not much free time these days, but I'm excited to examine this thing a bit more closely. The stock is wonderfully beat up. Seriously, the repairs are quite interesting, but the metal is in surprisingly good shape. Also a surprise? All parts match - nothing forced here. And, it's a three-digit serial number. I've not seen that before with these guns, so that itself will require a bit more digging.
Anyway, enough typing...