This rifle first came to my attention when someone
decided to try firing it while I was watching, and the entire gas block assembly went downrange. On further inspection, this is in fact I think the most
horrific example of gunsmithing I've ever seen in my life. Let me show you. By outward appearances this is a
5.56mm version of an AKS-47U "Krinkov". And the first bad sign: Pro Mag. Next up: they didn't bother to
install the latch that holds the stock. That's supposed to be the rivet hole for it, that's
supposed to be a little catch that holds the stock in place. But that's really the least of this thing's problems. Rivets. Rivets are supposed to look more
or less like this. This is not a proper rivet. This is definitely not a proper rivet.
That's more like a pin. On this side we're really no better.
This is just useless and horrible. This one looks kind of like a nail.
And that one's actually, like, that's good. That means there's one rivet on this side at
least that's going to hold the rear trunnion in place. Selector lever notches? Nyah, we'll just cut those in there
with a cut-off wheel from a Dremel tool. That'll work. Some of you are gunsmiths and can
already see what the problem is here. Those of you who are not, these parts
are supposed to be flush with each other. The whole point of putting in rivets is
that you tighten things down together and then keep them there. These not so much. And because they weren't able to get them
very close, it appears that this top plate ended up being too thick for the rivets.
So rather than fix the original real problem, they simply ground down both sides of
the trigger guard here to make them thinner. Hence the bare metal there where, I mean,
obviously there's no refinishing going on here, this is just Dremel-o-matic. This is the essence of the Wile E. Coyote
School of Gunsmithing, or WECSOG. Obviously this gun wasn't inspected
closely before it was first fired, because well, that's where the whole horror show started. That is not the muzzle end of an AK barrel, holy cow. Just I ... literally I have never seen anything like that. Someone has ground the barrel diameter down so that it would fit the gas block and
muzzle brake assembly from a Krinkov. So some of ... these parts are very well made,
like these, because they came from a parts kit. The horrible parts of this are the ones that were installed or modified in the process of
building this parts kit into a full-on firearm. Now if we pull off the booster, ... see that's not carbon. I think someone took some sort of barrel,
and I don't know exactly what kind, but it sure wasn't a proper Krinkov barrel,
and they didn't even bother to drill out the holes that are supposed to be used for the
two pins that hold the gas block in place. Those are just solid, and rather than
trying to even just use a hand drill to put the proper ... slots in the
barrel to pin this on, instead, I think they brazed the gas block to
the front end of the barrel instead. ... It never even occurred to me that someone
might do something that incredibly stupid. Let's take a closer look inside, shall we? Recoil spring's great. Bolt carrier's OK. The bolt itself is not OK. In order, I suspect, to headspace this gun, they
went in and ground off the back of the locking lugs. ... You can see they almost took off the
beginning of the first serial number digit here. That is tremendously dangerous, among other things. And like, holy cow, who does this sort of thing? But we shall press on and look at the rest of the barrel. There we go, let's take the handguard retainer off. Yup, sure enough, what's supposed
to be a nice little clean cutout there for the front handguard is once again ground
out with some sort of Dremel or Dremel-like tool. In fact the whole barrel is a bit of a mystery
to me here, because it's been turned down, it's still in the white, but it's
clearly had lathe work on it here. And it's been turned down on a machine this far,
but then it's been turned down with some sort of like angry beaver grinding tool out for the last two inches. There is a gas port in it which
appears to be indexed properly. This just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Like, ah, sorry, I'm kind of at a loss for words here. ... It's almost like one person started this project badly,
and another person finished it worse. I wonder if, well, obviously this kit was
a 5.45mm parts kit, or it appears to be, where the gun that was built is in 5.56, or actually, if we look at the markings on the
receiver, it is actually in .223 millimetre.
[ Builder name hidden to protect the guilty. ] While I've got the parts out we'll take a look here, you can see the inside [of the] rivets
are just as bad as the outside of the rivets. Not flush, stuff ground off in there. The inside of that rivet is not at all hammered
down, like the outside of that one looks OK, but that's because ... when you get a
rivet it comes with one side nicely domed, and you put that through and then you're supposed to
hammer the other side into a similar dome. Or press it. They put the nice one on the outside there,
and the crap ones on the inside. This is what they did. That one's kind of crummy at both ends. We can't really get a good view down
on the inside of these unfortunately. Or fortunately, like you don't need to see more of this. I don't really have any particularly
philosophical ending for this video. Just this gun is literally so awful in so
many ways, and at so many levels, that I've never seen something this bad.
I have truly never seen something this bad. And it was so spectacularly bad that I had
to put it on video and show it to you guys. Like, if you think your guns badly put together,
take some heart, it could be worse. If you built this gun, just please stop.
Please stop. Don't do this to anyone else. Hope you guys enjoyed the show,
hope this guy gets his money back. Thanks for watching. [ sub by sk cn2 ]
“.223MM”
Anybody identify the builder? I want to steer clear
I’m at a loss for words after watching this
Anyone know who the builder is?
Did no one see the third axis pin or was it just me?
I’d totally buy this POS and scrap the thing for a complete rebuild. Probably could get a good deal on what usable parts remain.
“And if you are the person behind this, stop. Like, like please just stop. Stop.”
Bubbalicious
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