I bought a CZ858 for 250$ that had 100 rounds of corrosive ammo shot and never cleaned. The barrel looked like a tank drove thru it and the piston was rusted in place. Took hours of cleaning with JB bore paste and JB bore bright to get it back to shooting condition.
AK47 mag fed rifles in CANADA. Am I missing smth?
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I bought a CZ858 for 250$ that had 100 rounds of corrosive ammo shot and never cleaned. The barrel looked like a tank drove thru it and the piston was rusted in place. Took hours of cleaning with JB bore paste and JB bore bright to get it back to shooting condition.
If maintained properly, it will look just as good as a non-corrosive shooting rifle. Corrosive ammo is not sulfuric acid that eats thru your rifle. But as DILLIGAF said, let it go without cleaning and you'll get a very rough looking rifle in no time
blaxsun
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The only reason there's a hard-on for the AK-47 is due to three words: cheap f*cking ammo. Truthfully, even if you could obtain AK-47s in Canada they'd be priced well above the price of a CZ and everyone would still be b*tching about how they're more expensive than an SKS...
It's exactly the same take down as the m305b if you're familiar with it. Not hard once you are
used to it. As far as mags go I'm using the stock norinco mags one is perfect out of the box the other I had to file a bit to allow the rifle to cycle by hand and only holds 4 rounds (im thinking the spring is caught on something inside and binding up, I'm still yet to pull it apart and see) and only 200 rounds from it now without a single issue bang every time. And the stocks are interchangeable only thing I noticed is the 305b had a recessed grove for a small pin to sit in the 305a does not but 10 seconds with a file it would fit.
If you clean there will be no problem . My cz858,sks and xcr-l all see corrosive 99% of the time and they are like new
thanks for your input.
Did you think about changing the stock or you are happy with what it came with?
I saw some ppl buy remington folding stock and hand grip and chop M14 stock to make it a tactical one with glueing/ screwing, not sure if it looks nice.. but I have not seen normal looking, functional and normally priced stocks for M14/305a
Agree, corrosive ammo can be a big disavantage in a SHTF scenario. The first firearm I bought many years ago was a k98. I bought some ''non corrosive surplus ammo'' for it. First time I shoot with my rifle, I don't clean it. Few days later, the bore of my rifle is totally covered by a very thick layer of rust. Corrosive ammo is fine if you have time to disassemble your rifle and clean it at the end of the day.
How about second hand experience with WW2 rifles? 6 years of war, neglected and often not cleaned properly and in time. I would have expected corrosive ammo totally annihilated them by now, but here they are, still alive and kickin'.
