The rifle has smoothed itself out amazingly well, a true pleasure to shoot.
With no foresight on it's collective properties and first high power rifle in my collection, I managed to cycle over 3K surplus rounds through it with no failures, camped with it and as much as I hate to admit, even conducted several bumpfire mag dump. Chinese AK variants are going up due to the ban on Chinese imports and the number of new people getting into the sport who want one of. Also to be noted, all numbers are stamped (not electropenciled). taking into account the condition of the rifle in the sale as the one you are getting is used with no box or accessories. Any info on these numbers and relation is greatly appreciated. The barrel also have 4 numbers running vertically (under the gas tube) but they do not match the serialization. The top-cover (rear, under the recoil spring, lug opening). This unit did not come with a blued/dark bolt & carrier, it came with a gray, phosphate type finish. side and it was manufactured at the Min Shan factory. The entire rifle is blued, the dust cover has the warning stamped on the L.
With a price tag of $400, it came with 3 blued magazines, green plastic oil bottle, cleaning rod & cleaning kit, green canvas type sling and a bayonet W/scabbard with matching Black/dark Green bakelite scales. Chinese AK-47 Muzzle Breaks, Polytech Muzzle Nut, Norinco 56 Slant, 84S Bird Cage Flash Hider, RPK Type 87S Break, Cone Flash Hider, Type 74 Muzzle Break, and Type 86S Bullpup Fish Lips I wanted to make a post to show off the various Chinese Muzzle breaks in one forum. He bought what he thought was a rare breed at that time, (a Hungarian AK) and I decided to go with the only underfolder in the shop which turned out to be a Clayco Sports import.
Back in the mid 80's, a friend of mine and I decided on our first high power rifles and AKs were on top of the list.