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Posted: 8/1/2007 8:01:56 PM EDT
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Hey everyone, first post here after my first day with my Vector AK. It was fun through the first magazine, then my day became very frustrating...ht I would be able to shoot through maybe 3-5 rounds, and then a misfire. There was a clear indent where the hammer struck, and it looked clean. I eventually gave up, as I couldn't shoot more than 5 rounds without one not working. Now I suppose there could be a problem with the hammer or something else as it was my first time shooting the gun...but I'm more inclined to think I got big box of duds. her EDIT: This is posted later on in the thread but the gun was the problem. Now I'm shooting GT with no problems at all. |
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i havent tried that stuff.. ive only fired SAPSAN, wolf, wolft mil classic, winchester, and some plain white box ammo and never had a misfire ever... come to think of it.. ive never had a misfire in any of my firearms. that is besides the 22 cal, but seriously that donest count |
| Golden Tiger has pretty hard primers I have had no problems with it in my guns I did have to change my pin in a yugo sks from a stock free floating to a murrays spring and pin (budget) and that took care of my problem but you should not have that problem with your ak I belive it's not free floating. |
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Its likely not relevant but I did have to change the hammer spring on my Vector built on a Polish kit right after I got it. It seemed to have occasional light primer hits and also had trigger slap even though it had a G2 trigger. I called Vector and they sent out a hammer spring so I didn't have to send in the gun. Of course, I would try some other ammo first to be sure that its not a bad batch of Golden Tiger. |
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Remove the bolt assembly and shake it. If the pin doesn't rattle freely back and forth then you may have some grease or cosmoline packed inside. Clean with kerosene and compressed air. Try a box of different ammo to determine if it is a rifle problem or a ammo problem (or a combination of only YOUR rifle and THAT ammo). Have another shooter fire a few rounds of your ammo in their AK/SKS/Mini30 and report. Vectors are GREAT builds but remember they are using 30+yo used parts from cut up guns so a bad spring or out of spec firing pin may not be beyond possibility. |
Is that true about the age of vector parts? 30+ years old sounds excessive... |
I believe the original Polish guns were made in the 1970s. Honestly, I do not know for sure. Does anybody have a reliable source for this information? |
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Logged in on the 13th. Daddy bought me an AK |
| A batch of 1000 rounds of Golden Tiger bought from AIM last spring yielded multiple pierced primers, the debris from which locked up both of my SKSs and damaged the bolt in one enough so that it required replacement. Rounds from the same batch fired fine in my AK, but I did find primer debris in the gun. |
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Bought 4k at Knob Creek and have fired about 1.5k without a single malfunction. Check the firing pin tunnel as the pin is free floating and grease etc can slow/bind it. Take out your bolt and shake it. The firing pin should move freely. Use brake cleaner and hose out the firing pin tunnel to remove debris. Remove firing pin and clean tunnel with bore brush if brake cleaner doesn't work. Check Romanian web page on how to dismantle bolt. The firing pin tunnel can be packed with grease, metal shavings etc.... Hope this helps. |
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Both of the SKSs affected had Murray firing pins and firing pin return springs. |
| I've fired roughly 1k of G.T. in my Yugo SKS and WASR-10, nary a hiccup or harprimer. All rounds feed reliably, no extraction problems, and the accuracy was spot on if not better than Wolf Poly Performance Black Box. I have probably only 500 left of my Golden Tiger, I'm hoping to come across some more reasonably priced GT down the road, but that probably won't happen... |
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Just reporting back to this thread as I said I would... Got my gun back from Vector; they said they test fired 90 rounds through it without problems, which was more than I ever could. So I took it to the range today, fired maybe 10-12 mags worth and didn't have a single misfire. So it's safe to say GT wasn't the problem (they changed out my bolt), and I'll be buying more of it if it keeps a good price. |
| You might want to check this thread. You might be having the same problem. |
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