TYPE 81 folding stock more pictures (DAY 6 Update "a bent rifle")

Visleguy said:
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!

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Just tape a vertical toothpick perfectly centered at the rear of the receiver, center the rear sight and sight
through to the front sight. All three should be in perfect alignment, front sight should be centered but should be easy to judge center.
 
762mm said:
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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Marstar brought in Yugo leftovers from the communist regime in the years immediately after the civil war when the former yugo republics were under disarmament sanctions from the UN. They were motivated sellers of stuff produced with communist labour by the millions, years in advance.

Apples and oranges.

Though Zastava still makes commercial AKs today and sells them for significantly more than that.
 
FWIW, the butt should be fixable. You would have to remove the stock, shave some off the right side of the trunion insert, add a shim on the left, plug the pin holes with dowels, install and re-drill the pin holes.
 
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