I just tried out my AK-74 rifle for the first time after cleaning a thin layer of Cosmoline off of it with mineral spirits, running a brush and patch a few times down the barrel, and hitting it with break free. This cleaning made the action very smooth and deliberate with no hang ups. I have several standard 30 round magazines for it, and they are the real Bulgarian ones and not aftermarket as far as I am aware. The magazines are all the plastic body jobs, which, as far as I know, is standard. Some of the magazines are brown, and some are black.
The rifle is a Bulgarian model, was purchased at Atlantic Firearms, is one of those jobs where the assembly is done in the US and has, I believe, some US made parts. Is similar to, but is not the same, as this one:
http://www.atlanticfirearms.com/programming/expand.asp?Prodid=483
When I was on the line, the rifle would not re-chamber a following round correctly every three to five rounds, but this would only happen with some of the magazines. For some reason, and I wouldn’t think that this would matter, the rifle only misfed when I was using the black magazines. The rifle functioned flawlessly with the brown magazines. Some of the mis chambered rounds ended up scraped up some on the shell casing, and the top part of the black mags looked a little scraped, as though the piece with the firing pin which does the re-chambering was getting caught and not catching the round correctly. I haven’t tested all of the magazines yet, but plan to as soon as I can.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Can anyone offer any advice? Any good advice is deeply appreciated. Thanks!
The rifle is a Bulgarian model, was purchased at Atlantic Firearms, is one of those jobs where the assembly is done in the US and has, I believe, some US made parts. Is similar to, but is not the same, as this one:
http://www.atlanticfirearms.com/programming/expand.asp?Prodid=483
When I was on the line, the rifle would not re-chamber a following round correctly every three to five rounds, but this would only happen with some of the magazines. For some reason, and I wouldn’t think that this would matter, the rifle only misfed when I was using the black magazines. The rifle functioned flawlessly with the brown magazines. Some of the mis chambered rounds ended up scraped up some on the shell casing, and the top part of the black mags looked a little scraped, as though the piece with the firing pin which does the re-chambering was getting caught and not catching the round correctly. I haven’t tested all of the magazines yet, but plan to as soon as I can.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Can anyone offer any advice? Any good advice is deeply appreciated. Thanks!