FWIW - I had a chance to shoot this rifle during my last trip to Houston. It was ok and didn't really stand out to me - the biggest advantage over a comblock rifle being the uninterrupted top rail. Also, the stamped metal lower feels very cheap in person.
Edit: The one thing that was interesting is that we had to keep letting the barrel cool after each magazine as it heated up really quick and was then getting erratic. The hot texas sun may have had something to do with the overheating, but now, on reflection, I find it odd that the ARs and the SCAR were fine.
It is a 12 (3) Converted Auto, brought into Canada in the 1980s. The story goes that it was a Israeli capture gun destined for the PLO ( hence the mint condition), that was sold as surplus to SIDEM Company in the UK for conversion and resale in Canada pre-C68 and C-15. It was a great shooter back in the day...."sigh"......
Very cool!
Im not familiar with the acceptable standards back in the day to convert one of these from full to semi, but i would assume that the auto sear (with its' axis) would need to be removed? Or did they just take a file to the disconnector and call it a day?
It's the DMR version, meant for slow deliberate fire. If you fire once every 45 seconds like a bench shooter, it will even outperform an SKS in a tapco plastic chassis.
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Gratuitous pic of my Russian 1977 AKMS - just because....
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Interesting points. Do you think it's still worth the price tag up here?
Wow can't even believe all this written on here! Just laughing and will love shooting mine big time!
Me too! I can't shoot my AKMS any more, so this will be it's new replacement.
Wow too much whinging and #####ing here. Another CGN thread based on conjecture and rumours with out the actually facts. Everything is based on speculation and you wonder why US manufactures don't want to deal with Canada. Is it worth the head ache and logistics for the handful of rifles that the Canadian market will sell? I literally mean handful because the few rifles that will be sold up here are just going to be a blip on their bottom line. Factor in the extra time, labour and extra wages for exporting is it really worth doing? Some people within the Canadian gun community have this stupid sense of entitlement. It reminds me once when I was taking to the Dept. Head at the US State Dept. He said you should be damn lucky you have anything to shoot because we don't have send you anything. Which in realty is true. No one has to deal with the Canadian market. The manufactures choose to. They can alway say no. So I don't know why you guys are sh!tting on manufacture when he is trying to support the Canadian gun community. It is a real pain in the a$$ to deal with Canadian and the rewards don't out weigh the benefits. The Remington General manager gave the best description of the Canadian market. He said that the smallest US state sells more Remington firearms than all of Canada. He said do we have to deal with Canada, no. Does it effect our bottomline, no. We choose to deal with Canada because they want to create a global brand. So when a manufacture wants to bring something to the Canadian market in a way you should be grateful. I don't know why everyone starts these bashing threads.