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Posted: 11/12/2007 8:11:13 AM EDT
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Is your Yugo handguard plastic or wood? My wood handguard does rather well at keeping the heat off my hand. I can feel the heat, but nothing that I cant handle even after a number of rounds. Try and find a wood set to trade for, or give Ironwood a call and see what they have. |
Plastic, and I'm not too big a fan of wood grips, so maybe I can find a way to lessen the heat. The wood, however, is a possible alternative. Thanks. |
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main reason why I dislike the yugos....your going to have a hard time finding furniture that works.....the galil style really is crappy they are to bulky, to ugly, and ratain heat way to much.......if it was a regular stamped AK I would tell you to go with the KVAR black polymer handguard with the heat shield in them.....300 rounds through the AK and I didnt feel anything.....now they really work........good luck on your search www.k-var.com/shop/product.php?productid=16391&cat=296&page=1 this is not the set just a good pic of what the heat shild looks like www.k-var.com/shop/product.php?productid=16717&cat=296&page=1 |
If you have poly for the Century US parts count, you need heat sheilding or wood. Heat sheilded poly with a space between the metal and poly is best at staying cool, followed by wood, followed by plain poly. Or epoxy alum can inside the plain polymer and use a leather yard glove. Costs next to zero to try... |
I'm not at all a fix-it kind of guy--maybe it's not that I'm not good, but it seems that they seem to break soon after I fix it--so I may not want to do that. Anyone else have any idea? Maybe using that heatshield mentioned earlier? Or should I just buy a good pair of gloves? |
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Having built a couple of NFA post-sample AKs, I've learned to hold the magazine like a forward pistol grip, as even a couple of mags on full auto fire will make wooden handguards too hot to touch. Since the handguards get too hot and replacing them isn't an option, moving your hand is all I can think of. 
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Thanks much, buddy. |
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Okay... Now I'm gonna chime in with better info since I've now gotten to SHOOT my AK build with Tapco Galil style front grip. First off - it has NO HEAT SHIELD -- But that DOESN'T MATTER! I got 500rds through that gun on Saturday, and I didn't have a single problem with any heat getting through the grip! The air vent in the top of the grip, and the large gap/space between the grip & the barrel kept me from feeling ANY HEAT on that gun. I've not had a single problem with mine... That said, it WAS being fired in Minnesota, with a temp around 30 degrees F! |
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It also depends a lot on how fast you fire. Somepeople consider a round every ten or fifteen seconds "rapid fire". when I think or the term , I am thinking as fast as I can pull the trigger and change mags. Two mags fired fast will make wood grips too hot to hold onto, the poly grips are a little worse, the polys with a heat shield do seem to work a little better. In the end much more than a couple of mags fired rapidly is going to make any of them hot, several mags fired quickly and you will find out exactly how well the material they are made of reisists heat and fire. |
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