Wot I did on the weekend...

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smyrna
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Re: Wot I did on the weekend...

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AndyC wrote:So we got a few guys together with AK kits and spent Saturday afternoon demilling AK kits near Alpine range in Ft Worth - grinding down the old rivets, drilling them down then punching them out. A hammer slipped only once but nobody lost any blood - so no WECSOG Awards were handed out (Wiley E Coyote School Of Gunsmithing).

For some reason my Blackberry's memory-card glitched so I don't have any pics of the event itself, but here's the end-result so far - my Yugo kit:

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I assume you are getting ready to build one from a sheet metal receiver? That seems to be all the rage these days because I see these kits, which are actually de-milled AKs, for sell everywhere. Just how easy (or hard) is it to do? Do you use pre-bent receivers or bend your own? Any special rules or regulations involved in building one?
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