Let's see your Chinese AKs!

[TB215]

I'll start with my Polytech Underfolders. The top is a stamped "Double Folder" and the bottom is a milled.

[pacpiper]

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I'll start with my Polytech Underfolders. The top is a stamped "Double Folder" and the bottom is a milled.

Nice. The double folder is one that I must have one day.

[Mity2]

Ahhh the Chinese AK's... I have some sad story about Chinese AK and I...

my very first AK was Mac 90 with spike bayonet and 30round mag with full accessory I bought back in 1994 when I lived in Upstate NY for I think was $299(Hard to believe, ain't it? it was different time back then...).

I loved the stinking thing - I was like the coolest kid in the high school.
I used to go buy a several 20rds Chinese 7.62x39 pkg(IIRC, it was like $3.99...), and go up to my buddy's farm(his family owned huge farm), and shoot up everything from tin cans to busted up 1964 AMC Rambler 770 Classic sitting on the cinder blocks...
I was saving up to buy a proper wod stock set to replace the ghey ass sporter stock mine came with.

Then all the fun ended when I got the call from the gunshop wanting me to bring my pride and joy back to check something.

Turned out that my Mac90 - an early 1990's import - had a what is commonly known as a "evil 3rd hole", and there for it was illegal according to ATF.
He took the gun back to ship it back to importer I believe, then gave me a Type56 instead.

While SKS was okay, it just wasn't the same....

[Calzonewdippingsauce]

Ahhh the Chinese AK's... I have some sad story about Chinese AK and I...

my very first AK was Mac 90 with spike bayonet and 30round mag with full accessory I bought back in 1994 when I lived in Upstate NY for I think was $299(Hard to believe, ain't it? it was different time back then...).

I loved the stinking thing - I was like the coolest kid in the high school.
I used to go buy a several 20rds Chinese 7.62x39 pkg(IIRC, it was like $3.99...), and go up to my buddy's farm(his family owned huge farm), and shoot up everything from tin cans to busted up 1964 AMC Rambler 770 Classic sitting on the cinder blocks...
I was saving up to buy a proper wod stock set to replace the ghey ass sporter stock mine came with.

Then all the fun ended when I got the call from the gunshop wanting me to bring my pride and joy back to check something.

Turned out that my Mac90 - an early 1990's import - had a what is commonly known as a "evil 3rd hole", and there for it was illegal according to ATF.
He took the gun back to ship it back to importer I believe, then gave me a Type56 instead.

While SKS was okay, it just wasn't the same....

Im a pretty clumsy guy. If that happened to me I would have probably dropped it overboard on the boat ride back to the gun shop.

[Mity2]

Im a pretty clumsy guy. If that happened to me I would have probably dropped it overboard on the boat ride back to the gun shop.

Ya... I was just dumb high school kid didn't know anything. Not to mention there was no body of water near where i was...
to be honest, i didn't even know what he meant by the auto sear hole until many years later.
I've seen a many pictures of Mac90 with 3rd hole since then, which holes were welded over(guess that's still no good in ATF's eyes), but I'm pretty sure mine wasn't welded over. But rather had a rivet went through the receiver...

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Im a pretty clumsy guy. If that happened to me I would have probably dropped it overboard on the boat ride back to the gun shop.

May I ask why? What benefit of keeping it would out weigh the possibility of getting caught with it?

[bogey1]

May I ask why? What benefit of keeping it would out weigh the possibility of getting caught with it?

Life in prison without the possibility of parole. Or,,, move to new jersey.
You make the call

[jeep]

What is the evil 3rd hole ?

[DHR27PA]

What is the evil 3rd hole ?

it makes it easier to install an auto sear piece (is that what its called?) to convert the rifle into a select fire rifle (full auto capabilities)
I hardly know anything about the subject.