SAR-1 Saved From Bubba

**mak47** · April 11th, 2010, 02:08 AM

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I stumbled on a bubbafied SAR-1 at Kinsey's in Elizabethtown the other day and the price was right so I brought it home to nurse back to health.

As always, I was in such a rush to get to work on it, I neglected to take before pictures. It had a beat to hell ATI Fiberforce thumbhole stock, a scuffed wood upper handguard that had been painted black, and a weird ak-74 looking black rubber lower handguard (with no heatshield). It needed a good cleaning but was mechanically sound.

I polished the bolt carrier and put on a Romanian stock set that I'd picked up from www.centerfiresystems.com and now we have a respectable looking gun.

It is of course still ugly, as any Romanian AK should be in my opinion. It looks like a junkyard dog. You don't want to pet it, and you're kind of afraid of what you might catch from it, or that it will become spontaneously violent at any moment.

I can't help it, there's just something great about an ugly as sin AK.

**freddy g** · April 11th, 2010, 05:10 PM

Cool, you should have got some before and after pics! and yes i like the ugly(but in a good way) romanian AKs too, i never liked AKs always looked real cheaply made and junkie! but after recently holding one im kinda liken um,i guess i will have to get one.

**mike_yorkPA** · April 11th, 2010, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by mak47

sar1.jpgI can't help it, there's just something great about an ugly as sin AK.

Agree 100%

**brian** · April 11th, 2010, 08:19 PM

how is it ugly, if beauty is in the eye of beholder?

and to think the sar series was looked down on as being "junk".....they're head and shoulders above the wasr's that replaced them.

**Stooperzero** · April 11th, 2010, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by brian

how is it ugly, if beauty is in the eye of beholder?

and to think the sar series was looked down on as being "junk".....they're head and shoulders above the wasr's that replaced them.

The SAR series is/was the Top of the Line STAMPED AK Variant ever to be imported to our country.

I built my Bulgy 5.45 Krink off a SAR-3

**mak47** · April 11th, 2010, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by freddy g

Cool, you should have got some before and after pics! and yes i like the ugly(but in a good way) romanian AKs too, i never liked AKs always looked real cheaply made and junkie! but after recently holding one im kinda liken um,i guess i will have to get one.

Yeah, I know. I always do that, then I kick myself for it.

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