just a thought, the parts are readily available, why not buy an American made receiver and just build one from scratch?

I assume the barrel is the most expensive part, but don't they make them in the US now?

Because in America, everyone need AR-15. Russia only need one AK.

It's so that you don't buy a painted up one for cheap and try to return it to a manufacturer for "MSRP" without actually experiencing a defect.

There is no comparison when talking about a century built polish tantal kitted gun and a actual built in poland rifle.
The new rifles will be worth every penny. I just spent 2k the same day the add came up from atlantic. I would of bought 2 if i hadn't spent so much earlier in the day.

Some are built much nicer than others.

Has the price of shovels shot up?

http://militaryhumor.net/homemade-ak-47-made-from-shovel/#

I love that thread

Glad I have many quality AK'S and won't be buying anymore at these prices. My opinion is they are overpriced, but I guess others think they are not.

"Cheap' is still available... depends on how much work you wish to put into it. What do you consider a good price? Heck, there was one here on Waguns (mac90) for $650...

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/201 ... Newsletter

Guy built his for $500 and won a competition.

Same Same.
I was going to link to it until I saw Scott's post.

Kits are the expensive part, they are $300 now(galils are about the same price, so why not galil?) Barrels can be had in the $50-100 range, imported polish barrels are in the $200 range. Also 80% receivers are still a thing(flats or prebent), even ones that are already riveted to trunnions. Really you are talking $500-600 total for any common build these days, but you come out with a rifle that may have seen some shit in the past and you can also get some neat variants that arent commonly availible. My 1st build was a Egyptian crutch folder, my yugo guns all have a ton of carvings and names in the stocks.

They arent a standard AR build, they are kinda difficult, lots of riveting and pressing. To do it right you need presses and such. I've built 1/2 a dozen.

That said, i hate riveting, i'm going milled weldups from here out. I have a pair of milled yugo m70 recievers on the bench that i welded up a while back just waiting for the time to finish.

BTW look into tortort 80% milled receivers, they are good. I may go one of those on one of my galils. The other is getting a m70 yugo front stub and galil rear welded togather and i have a yugo x39 krink barrel

I really need to get back to my 7.62x25 bullpup ak/pps43 mutt