Odd Contraption
When I was last at Coal Creek Armory, I saw one of these odd weapons. It’s a bullpup Kalashnikov.
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July 16th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Now if Tromix could do that with a Saiga shotgun…
July 16th, 2007 at 11:43 am
My friend Jason and I made one of those. There’s a kit they sell to do it, but I can’t remember where he got it. The only downside is the trigger pull, because it’s operated with a rod that runs back, is really sloppy. We used a Maddi as a base, if I recall.
July 16th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Want.
July 16th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I used to have one of these. It’s about the loudest damn thing I’ve ever shot.
July 16th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
You know, that looks like the 20 round mag would work a lot better.
An AKs in general are just loud. The OPFOR we use for our training events have their own WASRs, and even with blank adapters (screws on in place of the slant brake) they’re thunderous. Fire one inside a building (they’re all concrete or cinder block) and sweet mother of pearl…
Not hard to tell the AKs from the AR popguns.
July 16th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
That’s the AKU-94 stock kit from K-Var:
http://www.k-var.com/shop/product.php?productid=16254&cat=0&page=1
A clever design I suppose. You can see the wire that connects the forward trigger to the original trigger.
The bullpuk AK isn’t going to be any louder than a standard AK, since the barrel length is unaffected. What will be different is that your face is going to be closer to the muzzle when firing it. Oh, and you better be firing it right-handed unless you want to end up with a new body piercing.
One of our customers put the forward mount on one, making for a pretty cool setup I guess, but I haven’t tried it. The iron sights have to be elevated considerably, and on a rifle that already has a high sight axis. That’s because your new comb is above the receiver dust cover:
http://www.ultimak.com/pic10.htm
I guess its about $2K less than a Styer AUG, but the Styer can be configured for either RH or LH eject.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
various folks have been trying to bullpup the AK for at least 20-odd years. i know Finland’s Valmet tried something that looked superficially similar to this kit.
it almost never works, and usually fails because of the safety switch being where it is on the AK. operating the safety just gets to be too much of a PITA, and of course the rifle gets even less ambidextrous than it usually is, with no obvious solution.
me, i’m waiting for the kel-tec RFB. that’s still in the pipeline, right…?