AK Corner: Zastava M19 MCS -Next Gen AK or Just another AR Frankenfish?
originally appeared on The Tactical Hermit
My Two Cents based off this military design:
- To me it looks like a SCAR and a M90 AK had a really messy one night stand.
- Not wild about the 360 degree change in the manual of arms with the SCAR style folding stock, HK style selector switch and the AR charging handle? Why must me try and make every gun look and function like an AR? Nope.
- Personally, the ability to change barrels and calibers does not excite me. It seems more of a feature for the military end-user. An AK-47 is a 7.62×39 weapon, an AK-74 a 5.45×39, period. Unlike the author, I do not think a 5.56/.300 Blackout version would be a big seller in the U.S. for the civilian market simply because of the price point. People would just buy a mid-range to high end AR.
- This weapon is a failure for the TRUE AK Purist. Why? Manual of Arms MATTERS! There is a reason AK aficionados and AR Geeks don’t get along and never the twain’ shall meet.
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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .
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GUNS N GEAR
I love the AK and the AR, but to me this is the classic solution in search of a problem.
But look at that high-speed DickMod(tm) handguard!
SCAR,Massad, this..thing…G36……and the others.
Not for me.
I do not understand this …Lets see how high we can get “height over bore.”
They can double as canoe paddles though.
I guess thats a plus.
I mean have a monolithic top rail on a AK would be cool. And such a thing would be doable without drastically changing the rifle manual of arms. But it’s like they couldn’t decide on what kind of gun they wanted to make…an updated AK or some new design that just happens to use a long stroke piston and dual locking lugs like an AK. So the thing is schizophrenic. A big indication is that they apparently kept an AK bolt carrier and ejection port design without including a dust cover. A neat feature of the AK is using the safety as a dust cover, which is necessary because the AK carrier leaves several gaps where dirt and debris can get into the action. They might have been able to mitigate this by redesigning the carrier to fully fill in in the ejection port when closed, but they didn’t. As is, this thing is going to get packed with dirt and rocks if being carried in the field. I mean it seems so half assed to worry about slapping a tapco looking SCAR stock on the thing but leave the action open to eating a shit sandwich.