Chi-Com Type 56 "spiker" AK

[1srelluc]

I picked this one up today. It's the first one I've seen for a halfway reasonable price for a long while. I traded a '44 Inland M1 Carbine for it.

Not too many were imported with the Type 56-2 features that still retained the spike bayonet.

You might remember the Type-56 from when Barnes got wasted in Platoon.

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[yidnar]

the AK is the most dependable combat rifle on the planet .. you can literally pull one out of a mud puddle and start firing with it ..

 

[odanny]

It looks brand new.

 

[1srelluc]

It looks brand new.

It came out of what we call "the derelict house". A guy (passed) lived in a old antebellum hotel, much of it has fell in.

He was a huge collector and about once a month his son digs out about a baker's dozen guns and consigns them to a shop I frequent just down the road from the derelict house.

The dead guy collected a lot of pre-ban stuff. I just missed a pre-ban Egyptian Maadi AK, it sold on GunPorker a couple minutes before I walked in.

He also brought in a Daewoo K2 and a couple of FALs, and a Yugo AK.....One FAL and the Yugo AK is all that was left besides the Type 56-2 AK I had him set back for me.

LOL....When derelict house guy shows up calls go out and it's a feeding frenzy. I just made the trade on the phone and reserved the AK till I could drop off the trade and pick it up today.

 

[JGalt]

the AK is the most dependable combat rifle on the planet .. you can literally pull one out of a mud puddle and start firing with it ..

The only issues I've ever had with one were feeding problems with cheap magazines.

 

[Chuz Life]

The only issues I've ever had with one were feeding problems with cheap magazines.

I don't believe in guns.

I used to - before that time I took em all fishing and lost them in that boating accident.

 

[JGalt]

I don't believe in guns.

I used to - before that time I took em all fishing and lost them in that boating accident.

You should believe in them. I've actually seen one a long time ago and trust me, they are real.

 

[Chuz Life]

It came out of what we call "the derelict house". A guy (passed) lived in a old antebellum hotel, much of it has fell in.

He was a huge collector and about once a month his son digs out about a baker's dozen guns and consigns them to a shop I frequent just down the road from the derelict house.

The dead guy collected a lot of pre-ban stuff. I just missed a pre-ban Egyptian Maadi AK, it sold on GunPorker a couple minutes before I walked in.

He also brought in a Daewoo K2 and a couple of FALs, and a Yugo AK.....One FAL and the Yugo AK is all that was left besides the Type 56-2 AK I had him set back for me.

LOL....When derelict house guy shows up calls go out and it's a feeding frenzy. I just made the trade on the phone and reserved the AK till I could drop off the trade and pick it up today.

Candy store!

 

[Chuz Life]

You should believe in them. I've actually seen one a long time ago and trust me, they are real.

The pictures look so real.

AI is getting serious!

 

[Invisibleflash]

I picked this one up today. It's the first one I've seen for a halfway reasonable price for a long while. I traded a '44 Inland M1 Carbine for it.

Not too many were imported with the Type 56-2 features that still retained the spike bayonet.

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You might remember the Type-56 from when Barnes got wasted in Platoon.

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Clean gun!

You are getting ready...

 

[JGalt]

Clean gun!

You are getting ready...


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If I had that AK, I'd get up on the roof and yell "Wolvereeens!

 

[1srelluc]

Candy store!

Sure is. I've picked up some nice pre-bans from him.

He also brought in a Detonics .45 ACP Combatmaster pistol.....It was already sold but I would have liked to have seen it.

LOL....According to the guys over on AK Files the sling it came with is very rare. They used a converted mortar sling with a "crab foot" hook.

 

[fncceo]

If I had that AK, I'd get up on the roof and yell "Wolvereeens!

I do that nearly every night. But I’m not holding my AK.

It’s led to issues with my neighbors.

 

[yidnar]

The only issues I've ever had with one were feeding problems with cheap magazines.

yep .. that's the magazine .. not the gun .. they don't jam ..

 

[1srelluc]

yep .. that's the magazine .. not the gun .. they don't jam ..

Back when Tapco was making parts (most were SKS junk) they did have two saving graces, their G2 trigger and their poly AK mags....I rate them as good a MagPul's poly AK mags but not as good as EU .mil poly mags like Polish and Bulgarian mags.

 

[yidnar]

Back when Tapco was making parts (most were SKS junk) they did have two saving graces, their G2 trigger and their poly AK mags....I rate them as good a MagPul's poly AK mags but not as good as EU .mil poly mags like Polish and Bulgarian mags.

MagPul is a tried and true maker of dependable mags .. never had a problem with em .. that being said .. a lot of gun owners don't realize that mags need to be cleaned occasionally too .

 

[yidnar]

Back when Tapco was making parts (most were SKS junk) they did have two saving graces, their G2 trigger and their poly AK mags....I rate them as good a MagPul's poly AK mags but not as good as EU .mil poly mags like Polish and Bulgarian mags.

in an interview Kalashnikov stated that he built the AK to be looser [the internal components not as tight ] than other combat rifles .. because of that he said you could bury the AK in wet sand and come back a few days later and simply knock the dirt off and out of it and fire it .. don't know if he meant it literally ,but you have to admit the things rarely jam or malfunction ..

 

[JGalt]

MagPul is a tried and true maker of dependable mags .. never had a problem with em .. that being said .. a lot of gun owners don't realize that mags need to be cleaned occasionally too .

I read somewhere that if you leave poly mags loaded for an extended length of time, the lips can eventually bend a little, causing feed problems. Not sure if this is true or not, but the only ones I keep loaded are the cheap Korean steel mags I was getting back before the pandemic. I have a few of them somewhere that I loaded with a tracer round five rounds from the end.

No idea where they're at though.

 

[1srelluc]

I read somewhere that if you leave poly mags loaded for an extended length of time, the lips can eventually bend a little, causing feed problems. Not sure if this is true or not, but the only ones I keep loaded are the cheap Korean steel mags I was getting back before the pandemic. I have a few of them somewhere that I loaded with a tracer round five rounds from the end.

No idea where they're at though.

When I got the Hungarian SA-85 AK form "derelict house guy" I grabbed a couple of Bulgarian Circle 10 poly mags that had been loaded for years to test it with....No issues at all.