Guns and Ammo Thread

[SampsonandDelilah]

Is your MAK90 made by Maadi Arms?

No, it’s actually a Norinco. Has a milled receiver and has been one of the most reliable firearms I’ve ever owned. The cheaper the ammo, the better.

The Maadi’s are beautiful though and tough to find. The Egyptians did that the right way. I’ve passed on a few over the years and kick myself now. The only other AK’s in my collection are WASR-10’s and they don’t have near the quality. They do go bang every time though

[almostgone]

No, it’s actually a Norinco. Has a milled receiver and has been one of the most reliable firearms I’ve ever owned. The cheaper the ammo, the better.

The Maadi’s are beautiful though and tough to find. The Egyptians did that the right way. I’ve passed on a few over the years and kick myself now. The only other AK’s in my collection are WASR-10’s and they don’t have near the quality. They do go bang every time though

I snagged a Maadi back in the mid 90s or so. It seems to eat about any 7.62x39 ammo I've found. The sights are a tad lacking, but so is my eyesight. Fun to shoot, though.

[SampsonandDelilah]

The mid 90’s is when I got my Norinco too. I think I paid 150$ for it. They go between 800-1k now. Same with the Maadi’s. Most of the Maadi’s I’ve seen had the nicer furniture and a more traditional pistol grip and hand guard (is yours this way?).

The Norinco came with this god awful “thumb hole stock” (often called the butthole stock), a filed down bayonet lug and a couple other modifications that made it a “sporting” rifle rather than an “assault rifle” (good old Clinton). Like yours the sights leave something to be desired but it was never meant to be a precision shooter. Load them up with steel cased ammo and then watch them do their job.

You could get kits though and convert it full auto in a flash.

I’ve seen some Maadi’s that are priced well over a thousand dollars. Hold on to it!

If only I knew then that these sub 200$ AK’s would be so highly sought after and that they’d maintain every bit of their functionality, I would’ve loaded up on them. My MAK 90, was my first purchase into that world and I remember the day I bought. I thought it was SO cool! I would field strip it and admire it every week, lol.

I’ve used that lesson to fuel some of my current purchases...telling myself “who the hell knows what the future holds”.

I have some “fancy” military style long guns in my safe, but I’m telling you...as far as something I would trust my life on to go bang every time and knowing I could always find an abundance of ammo (brass, steel or whatever) it would be hard for me not to grab that MAK if I could only bring one (same would go if I had a Maadi).