So I decided to go to the range. I took my Ruger Precision rifle 308.
I got there and a guy had an AK 47 Russian made from parts kit.
I got 3 well aimed shots off and I noticed this guy 3 bays down mag dump 3 mags and was working on a 4th. I was thinking what a waste of ammo.... but it isn't mine so went back to shooting my rifle.
About 5 mins later this guy has his AK field stripped ramming a cleaning rod into it. He finally comes over ask me if I knew anything about AK47 I said a little.
So I walk over he said he got halfway through his 4th mag dump and it jammed so he thought it was dirty. He was going to clean it. I observed him take a patch and ram it hard into the gas tube. I yelled hold it, I said you do know that is the gas tube and not the barrel right? He said he thought it was the barrel. I took a flashlight looked inside it was packed with cleaning patches and you could see where he was scratching up the inside of the gas tube. He tried my needle nose pliers to get it out no joy. So we broke it on down and ran a rod the opposite direction finally got the patches out. He had some 3 Bulgarian mags and some cheap polymer mag. The polymer mag was when he had the feeding problem. I told him to just use the Bulgarian mags see if it worked without the feeding issue. It did. I went back to try and shoot my rifle some more.
About 15 mins later he came to me, and ask me if his grip was broken. He had what looked like a new Hogue grip on it. It was fine when I was over there earlier. Somehow he slammed the rifle down it hit the grip and he broke it inside and it was wobbly. I said you will need to buy a new grip because the plastic inside is all broken up.
I know an AK47 can take a lot of abuse but this guy literally was finding ways to make it not run. So I gave him some pointers, then ask why he was doing mag dumps. He said just in case the rioters attacked his home he could defend it. I told him the way he was shootin he would probably miss just about everything he was firing at. I pointed out he had around 10 hits on his target out of around 200rds fired. I said slow down aim each shot and fire.
Hopefully he tries that next time if his AK47 makes it to the range without him totally destroying it.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Sounds like a piece of junk rifle to me.
I would have offered him $200 cash for the scrap rifle....maybe 10 cents. round for his **** ammo that was as useless as his scrap rifle.