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MAK90 Reborn


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A friend of mine recently gave me a MAK90 Sporter in mint condition. Many thanks to him. I did not like the thumbhole stock, so I decided to renovate. 

 

MAK90 with Tapco G2 trigger, Ultimak furniture and SOE sling:

 

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The trigger was pretty simple. Out with the old and in with the new, simple drop in.

 

The stock and hand guard was trickier. The top hand guard went right in, no worries. The bottom hand guard required significant grinding and filing to fit but is now rock solid. The stock also required grinding and filing and is in solid, too. However, we had trouble with the Chinese screws for the stock, so we substituted good ole 'merican wood screws.

 

With thanks to Jim Fuller, James Yeager and Dr. Sherman House for technical assistance; John Willis/Original Special Operations Equipment (SOE) for the sling and my dad for some sweat equity and access to his tools and shop.

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I agree, MAK90's are definately under-rated in the AK community, mostly due to the awful ergonomics of the thumbhole stocks that Norinco/Polytech slapped on them in order to comply with the "sporting purpose" regulations.

Once the thumbhole furniture is swapped out for American made 3 piece AK furniture they do have some features which sets them apart from most European made AK's, such as very good 2-stage trigger groups, thicker sheet-metal recievers, thicker diameter barrels & above average accuracy, especially when shooting good quality ammunition.

IMHO they are fantastic AK variants, so I wouldn't hesitate to rely on one in a post-shtf scenario, so congratulations on the new to you MAK90 man.
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