Quote History Quoted:So my "perfect" AK has wood stocks and the sights it came with, nothing else.
So does that make me a "Fudd" AK guy?
@Dragynn
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Nope! There will always be a place in my heart and my collection for the classic AK, if I ever manage to find an original pre-ban Kassnar FEG that I can afford, I will never change a thing about it.
I left my 10/63 for the last few years in a set of plain ol' plum furniture, I didn't shoot it much but it sure looked good hanging on the wall.
But now I want to shoot it more, and just had to change some things, plus i'm about half-worried there's gonna be some damn SHTF event these days, and I want everything to be optimal for me and the wife to shoot our best, tin-foil stuff I know.
But I feel my idea has a lot of merit, been pondering on this for a long time now, studying, shooting, trying different configs on the rifles, different shooting styles, and making note of what works best. And I really feel that if such a rifle were built and people tried it, they'd be absolutely blown away with the whole she-bang.
And the smaller stuff i'm asking for too, don't want that to get thrown out, a better grip with around a 10-14 degree grip angle would be huge (for reference Magpul's K2 which does have some correction, is still 17 degrees), i've worked on this stuff extensively and wrist pronation is a big deal. And the same goes for gripping the front with whatever style and forward grip or handstop or even neither that works best for you, less pronation of the wrist makes for better and more comfortable shooting, and thus better practical accuracy.
And of course a better trigger, it's so simple in the end the mods that need to happen to make the simple original double-hook AK trigger perform sooooo much better, and nobody thinks to do it, they either make a copy of original single or double hook with all the travel and overtravel, or they go completely the other direction and try and re-engineer the whole thing. I'd be happy to take pics, detailed measurements, and even mail a couple of mine to any manufacturer that was interested in the concept. If you make it from the ground-up with the mods it won't cost you anymore than a simple OEM trigger to make/manufacture, and it's a VAST improvement.
I don't know what recoil springs a PSA uses, if it's original factory spec, but in general every AK i've owned/shot benefits from a slightly heavier spring, +5% over factory, it improves recoil, stops slamming/peening, and shoots softer, and while they're at it, bring back the milled telescoping guide rod, it's a lot better period, makes for more linearity in the stroke and with the tiny bit of added weight in the moving section combined with higher power spring it's just smoooooove shooting, and bonus you'll never have to worry about carrier jump.