What AK do you guys use?

A question we get many times daily is "What AK do you guys use?"

I'll go first.. Lately I use a Romanian G kit built on a Ewbank Receiver by Chris Horn in Flagstaff, AZ  I have it made up to look like a German (sort of) with German AK47 wood forends, and a German side folding stock. I use a standard slant break, made in the US by Chris Horn. It's got some US parts to keep it 922r complaint. I  choose the Receiver, Gas piston, three trigger parts, slant break, and to be extra safe I use US  made followers and floor plates  in my mags. This puts me well into the required 5 or 6 parts and let's me use the cool looking German furniture and cheap steel magazine bodies.

	This AK47 is designed to be a fighting gun, however I use it for training and I plan to use it in a competition to see how I can do with  it. I've made a few modifications to it. I've shaved down many of the sharp edges (I still wear gloves with it though) I added an extended charging handle. And modified the rear sight and the  sling
	This AK47 bolt carrier handle (charging handle) can be a finger biter, so I  use a time tested and highly elaborate modification, I  put a spent  casing  on the handle. It is a tight fit, and needs to be hammered on, but makes charging the AK a piece of cake. Plus it looks cool.
	The rear sights are a weak link  for the AK, I modified the rear sight to a large round area which  I line up with the front sight to make  a quick easy to acquire sight picture
	To feed the AK, I have been testing a Chinese chest rig, slightly  modified to be a shoulder bag. This is designed to be  a simple bag that can be  thrown over the shoulder with the basic supplies needed in a fight. Ammo, first  aid, and a knife Here's a full review of this Improvised Bug out Bag
	This AK47 uses two standard (Romanian?) slings. I am big and need more than one standard sling, so I use two, threaded together, which are very strong, easy to manipulate and cheap.

I used this AK in a Shooting match in June with an Eagle chest rig. I was surprised I was able to put two AK mags bullets down into the chest rig I assumed was designed for AR mags. This is eight 30 round mags, for a total of 240 rounds, It was not light, but not too heavy either

I also used a VTAC padded sling (in tan), which worked very well for the match. Also added a grenade pad to the folding stock to give me a more 'sticky' grip on my shoulder


I did get a burn on my wrist from the barrel of the AK, 2nd degree (some blistering) it hit my arm and burned where it was uncovered, but the Hatch (nomex) gloves protected me from a larger wound

I shoot ARs also, but you have to respect a gun that can take abuse like this and  work flawlessly. The only time these things really only stop working when they run out of ammo. When they do  fail it's easy to  get them running again, and if they break, parts are cheap and easy to fix in many cases