Yeah, I'd have the same concerns. These are not $300 rifles, after all.... which is the price Marst@r used to sell brand new AK's to properly licensed entities like 10 years ago....
TYPE 81 folding stock more pictures (DAY 6 Update "a bent rifle")
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Yeah, I'd have the same concerns. These are not $300 rifles, after all.... which is the price Marst@r used to sell brand new AK's to properly licensed entities like 10 years ago....
Pictures not my strong point,
Still dont got this, will work on it.
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#1bcshooter
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******There is a new milsurp presale in the works******Just waiting on a FRT
Maybe try to look at the positive side, it could almost be an ergonomic advantage if it bends the right way for you,
I haven't even looked at my fixed stock model, I've shot it and Bubba'd my rifle so it makes no difference to me now. It's good enough and you really can't expect perfection from these rifles. A couple of them definitely looked like they needed to be replaced but if it's just a little crooked I wouldn't worry about it as long as it functions fine, it's probably not worth the hassle of sending it back and waiting for a new one.
I haven't even looked at my fixed stock model, I've shot it and Bubba'd my rifle so it makes no difference to me now. It's good enough and you really can't expect perfection from these rifles. A couple of them definitely looked like they needed to be replaced but if it's just a little crooked I wouldn't worry about it as long as it functions fine, it's probably not worth the hassle of sending it back and waiting for a new one.
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Yeah Mine thankfully isn't bent either. It may not be 100% perfectly straight but it's close enough that I cannot tell either way.
Functions fine. got to my house in like 2 days as well.
I was hoping they would be a bit better fit/finish but is what it is.
I mean, my lower hand guard was hap hazardly cut with a hand saw, you can see chatter marks...
Plenty functional but leaves some to be desired.
BeaverMeat
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Yeah, I'd have the same concerns. These are not $300 rifles, after all.... which is the price Marst@r used to sell brand new AK's to properly licensed entities like 10 years ago....
Well... prohibs have a limited market hence the low price. Bad example.
When you say you "just" got the tracking numbers do you mean that literally as in five minutes ago or earlier today or? I'm just trying to gauge when to stop checking my e-mail lol.
Actually... it's an excellent example. It shows you that there was still money to be made at $300 retail when there weren't thousands of "take my money" folks lining up to buy these (they were being sold to properly licensed individuals and entities only, like movie productions, law enforcement, etc). There wasn't a huge market for those guns, but there was a market nevertheless.
So, if the gun cost $300 retail and still generates profit in a balanced market, they probably bought them at $100 a piece from the manufacturer. If I remember correctly, these were Yugo manufacture (so much better QC than Chinese by default).
Anyway, the more we learn, the less I'm confident in this whole "T81 venture". The wait was one thing, but the reported banana guns are a whole new, much more serious issue.
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Travis Bickle
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Maybe try to look at the positive side, it could almost be an ergonomic advantage if it bends the right way for you,
I haven't even looked at my fixed stock model, I've shot it and Bubba'd my rifle so it makes no difference to me now. It's good enough and you really can't expect perfection from these rifles. A couple of them definitely looked like they needed to be replaced but if it's just a little crooked I wouldn't worry about it as long as it functions fine, it's probably not worth the hassle of sending it back and waiting for a new one.
Maybe but how much does the offside barrel translate to the POA/POI?
Not that these are MOA guns by any means but no amount of sight adjustment is ever going to calibrate the offset because the rear sight is on a straight axis on the receiver and the front post is on a barrel which is now offset from the axis of the rear sight considerably.
Even if you could zero it at 50 meters, at 100 meters it would likely be missing a 12" steel plate at 80 to 100 meters because you would only be able to zero it horizontally at one fixed point assuming it's not off so bad you even can get the rear and front sights to line up and be POI at any practical distance.
Should be zero effect on POI, both of the sights are mounted on the barrel so as long as you can line them up it should be fine as long as it cycles smoothly. The biggest concern would be that the carrier is not riding on the receiver correctly and causes excess wear and/or binding.
So I made a jig as I said I would. I centered the barrel then made several measurements. I might just keep this rifle after all. My last pic of my Rottie agrees! lol. He knows the butt stock is out by a half inch too!
Nicely done. I think the dust covers make them appear to be bent. Optical delusion
