Yugo Ak problems

[jfowl31]

OK... here's the story. A buddy of mine goes into a gunshop... they have a Century Yugo underfolder (sorry not up with model numbers) marked $650. Sounds high to me, so he passes. A week later, its gone, a young guy bought it. A week later, its BACK, but now marked $550. Seems the guy bought it, and after shooting it, immediately traded it back in..... REAL fishy. So then my buddy goes back and buys it later! You smell the problem coming?

OK, well he gets home, has to wait a while cuz its too wet outside, and then gets to shoot it a few days later. Backs up to 50 yards, aims, fires 5 rounds... walks to target... NOTHING. Moves up to 25... same result... moves up to 15, same result... 10... now hes got 5 rounds tightly grouped at the VERY bottom of the target. So he cranks his sight as low as it will go, and is still 6" low at 10 yards.

What are we looking at here possibly? a crappy build? sights messed up? wrong sights? Ive never seen anything like it. It functions fine, just shoots REALLY low.

And... are these CIA builds or just imported by CIA? I may have given too little information, so Ill try to get more.

garcias
Jfowl

[Global Gunsmithing]

it is possible the barrel could be bent from pressing it in, if you know of anyone with a lazer bore sighter that fits in the chamber thats the best way to tell, instead of having a crisp clean red dot it will be distorted if the barrels bent

[nalioth]

And... are these CIA builds or just imported by CIA? I may have given too little information, so Ill try to get more.
These are built by Century from parts kits from Yugoslavia. New US barrels are used along with the US receivers, and the other 4 parts necessary for compliance.

[jfowl31]

that could explain a lot. I never even handled it, he just told me it was imported by CIA.

[M1 Tanker]

Jfowl,

I would try to get the AK to zero at 25meters. If you are sure the barrel is straight and the crown is square, then file down the front sight post a little at a time until you are on at 25 meters.

You sure the front sight post is bottomed out already?

[k98k792]

Also check out the muzzle brake.Take it off and shoot it.

[jfowl31]

I havent personally fired it... but he says it's bottomed out, and he's not an idiot... except for buying a CIA AK.

Ill be trouble shooting it with him in the next couple weeks. I told him to just demand a refund, but he doesnt want to for whatever reason. Ill get some more info tonight, I was just wondering if anyone had heard of that happening with a CAI yugo before.

[Seattlefungus]

I have one from Cent. I lucked out, it's a beauty and shoots fine and a decent tack driver from 200 and closer. But I'd also bought a kit from them. The front sight mount was not off a Yugo AK 47, it was off an AK74... I got the right part from them but... Who knows how it would of effected the build. The barrel diameter was the same, but the 74 was thiner and taller and was missing the bayonet lug and flip-up night sight. I think it was one of the parts they were using for the WASERs. I wonder if the receiver rivet holes in the Trunion were set properly. That would put the whole elevation out of wack. When I've seen miss aligned flash suppressors, the rifle most times can't fire a group. I don't know that a lazer bore sighter will tell you about the barrel being bent. When I was an armorer, we used a barrel straightness gage. A lazer beam will just show you where the barrel's pointed. A straightness gage is a machined stainless steel rod with a .001 land clearance and about 7 inches long. You just drop it down the barrel and if passes through, the barrel is straight. If it stops in the barrel, the barrel is bent. There are straightening presses. But if it's new from Cent, I'd have them fix it. I sure like mine. Sometimes they get it right.

[Anthropy]

Send it back to the angry butchers...er beavers and make them fit it. Either that or take it back to the gun shop or ask the shop to ship it to them for repair.

[Seattlefungus]

I bet if you send it back with a gallon of Maddog 20/20 they'll fix it right good fur ya... LOL

[Planning]

before cutting on the sites;
remove the front site. clean out the hole, sometime these fill up with carbon, grease, cosmolene, etc. clean the threads on the site and reinstall.


look at the rear site and see where he has the slide bar set at.

look at the slide bar on the site, sometimes these get bent down when they press the barrel in or out. ( i did this on one of mine not watching closely when i pressed in the barrel and it got caught on the plate and got bent a little.)


jflow; you shoot it, some people just don't understand the site line up on the ak.


like someone said, check the muzzle break ( take it off and shoot it)

good luck:airtight: