AK Trigger Function
I have a reasonable understanding of the workings of the AR but I always thought that the AK functioned by some sort of commie magic. But here’s how it works:
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January 12th, 2015 at 8:05 pm
It’s not commie magic. It’s basically the same mechanism as the M1 Garand which is in turn copied from the Remington model 8 by the great John Browning. The story (who knows if it’s true) is that the commie upper class favored the model 8 for hunting and Kalishnakov copied the safety and trigger to make his gun more appealing to them.
January 12th, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Mike beat me to it. I’ve always maintained that the commies got the idea from the Garand, but I was not aware of the Model 8 trigger design. I’d assumed that they were influenced by the W.W. II Garand and German StG 44, and melded the two together with some manufacturing techniques from the SKS and other Ruskie designs.
Likewise, an AK trigger can be set up as a two-stage, just like the Garand, by allowing the disconnector to kiss the hammer right before let-off. Robinson Armament was setting up their Verp IIs that way, many years ago (very nicely I might add) and I’ve done it on a few AKMs. It involves changing the forward position of the disconnector and altering its camming profile (against the hammer) accordingly. The AR trigger is very similar also.
Commie magic? Naw; the only “magic” in communism is in its power of intimidation, stagnation, dysfunctionality, hopelessness, death and destruction. But brutality isn’t really magic, now is it?
January 12th, 2015 at 10:39 pm
disappointed, thought it was going to show the auto parts too
January 13th, 2015 at 1:26 pm
It seems like just dremeling off the disconnector would leave you with a full-auto weapon. Maybe add a trigger return spring or something. Aside from, you know, going to prison, what would be the problem with doing that?
January 13th, 2015 at 3:50 pm
I once had three Russian rifles, a Mosin Nagant, and two Saiga AK’s, one in 7.62×39 and the other in .308. I still have the 7.62×39 AK and wished I had not sold the Mosin Nagant. I replaced my AK .308 with an M1A, an American-made upgrade, but I was impressed that the Ruskies made good reliable, easy-to-maintain, rugged rifles which helped provide “affordable” weaponry for the American militia.
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