RPK, what country?

[Planning]

RPK, what country?
i have some extra rifles i am going to sell, so as i dig them out to clean them i will descide which ones to keep and which ones are extras and sell them.

the very first one i got out i cannot remember what country it was made.
i looked at several sites and could not find a picture to match it up with.

any help?
i really use to know all this stuff, but as my memory is going i am forgetting a lot of stuff. thanks for any help.

ron

[Player]

doesn't the triangle w/ arrow mean somewhere Russian? Izhevsk?

[Perro Del Diablo]

romanian

[Planning]

romanian

thanks mike, i remember now.

ron

update:
i was going to cut the rpk up into a parts kit and sell it. the kit used on the rifle is near perfect and for some reason i thought it was a hungarian, bulgarian or polish rpk.

the receiver on it is a HESSE and it was welded on. i bought it to remove the receiver and rebuild it with another receiver, but just never got around to ordering another receiver for it. :rolleyes:

as i was setting here looking at it thinking about how much to sell it for i got to looking at the receiver and remembered i have a stash of romanian recievers in one of the safes. i found some of them ( nodak) and did some measurements. it will fit perfect. so soon i am going to cut off the old receiver and build me a new romanian RPK. :icon_biggrin:

HEY! what a deal.
sometimes things work out very good.
ron

[Arkane]

I thought all of the Romanian RPKs had bugled trunnions?

[SSwee]

I thought all of the Romanian RPKs had bugled trunnions?

Yugo's have the bulged trunnions.

[Global Gunsmithing]

Yugo's have the bulged trunnions.

I have 3 romy rpks here with bulged trunnions, Hesse may have milled off the bulge to fit the receiver

[Arkane]

Both of my Romys (AES10Bs) have bulged trunnions. Did some googling and there are some slick trunnion Romy RPKs (Century used some of the kits as a basis for their AES-10s - the one with the bipod in the wrong location). I know there were multiple factories cranking these out, so maybe one made slicks and the other made bulged.

[SSwee]

I stand corrected. All the bulged trunnions I have and have run across have been yugo's and the romy's have been flush. Learn something new all the time.
SS

[Planning]

i got this rpk back in the 90's sometime. maybe 97 or 98. i just shoved it into a safe, never fire it, not really even looked at it close. so this would be before the century AES-10s . i think they came out in the mid 2000's ( maybe 2005 or 2006) just not real sure.

thanks for the information.

ron

[Global Gunsmithing]

Both of my Romys (AES10Bs) have bulged trunnions. Did some googling and there are some slick trunnion Romy RPKs (Century used some of the kits as a basis for their AES-10s - the one with the bipod in the wrong location). I know there were multiple factories cranking these out, so maybe one made slicks and the other made bulged.

I have seen some yugos the same way

[AK74dad]

A good call to replace the receiver and keep the rifle. Ya never know when a longer range rifle might come in handy.

Bill

[mojo00]

Yugo, Romanian and Bulgarian RPK-RPK 74's have the correct bulged receivers at the front trunnion, but not the dimpled receiver necessarily.

Some early AES 10, pencil barrel (not AES 10B) imports and early U.S. made RPK's have AKM type receivers.

The one in the pic is a Romanian kit on a U.S. made AKM receiver

[SteelCore]

Trivia: The Iraqi firm that made AKs also have the oversized front trunnions, since their designs were all based on Yugoslavian designs and machinery. They have since ah....been put out of business. There was a good article in American Rifleman (The NRA mag) on the AKs of Iraq.

+1 on re-receivering that with rivets instead of welds.

[CGSteve]

doesn't the triangle w/ arrow mean somewhere Russian? Izhevsk?

If the arrow is fletched, then it is Russian Izhevsk arsenal. Arrows like the one pictured are Romanian, as already determined. The dating and lettering are also different on Russian marked firearms.