The old Romanian AK's are underrated for sure I picked up a lightly used SAR-1 last year for $399 at a local gun shop they had marked as an SKS

I’d say ban era AKs are worth it sometimes. It depends on how much someone wants to put into it to de-ban it. Obviously different models require different levels of work and money. However, they are all quality imports, so the bones of the rifle are good.

I'd love to go back 20 years, $200 would get you a SKS & a spam can 😔

I recently found a MAK90 at a local Gunshop/Pawn Shop for a steal, made in 92 mint rifles with original box and sling. I was talking to the shop owner he said the daughter of the guy sold it after he passed away with a bunch of other guns. I got lucky and the receiver was not slant cut so all I had to do was adapt some AKM furniture with a Dremel. It did not come with a threaded barrel so that's my next step.

I remember those very well! I bought several chinese MAK90’s with milled receivers for $225 and 2 MAK’s stamped with folding stock receivers for $189. I bought also the Chinese folding stocks at the same time. Milled guns were intended to be Legion series made at factory 386 where Legions were made. Just wanted to share. Thanks again for a great video

I have a Romak 2 in 545 and like my 386 I will never convert it . Both are amazing guns with amazing guts, especially the 386 . It was a weird time in US gun history but ban era AKs and SKSs are what i collect .

I love seeing when people show the guns they love and it’s especially cool to see it in a competition too😮

Those sorts of stocks are actually pretty neat - while they look a bit silly on firearms like an AK or AR they're about as close to a pistol grip and decent shoulder stock as you can get.

Romanian Aks we’re so under loved, they are actually one of my favorites the beautiful laminated wood and the kits were cheap! Them days are over glad I got my fix while it was decent my favorite is my aims74 build

I love the look of the wooden thumbhole stock, but after feeling one irl, I would never be able to run one nearly as fast as you could. Great shooting!

Im glad I inherited my nhm91 because damn they go for a lot nowadays! Naturally i replaced the grip and added an rpk stock because the original Chinese wood was oddly bulky...

I own a Romanian identical to that prior to your mods. It's one of my go to AKs that I own. Absolutely love it

Lately I've been thinking about picking up the few AKs most of us passed on over the years. The WUM, PAR, Single stack WASR-10, etc. Just because they're imports I'm missing. Why is my brain like this 😭

For my FEG made SA85ms, yes, it was worth it. Why? The bones are good and one doesn't have to worry about anything structural happening. I sent two of my builds to Historic preservation, Mario Freire and with AK63 parts and 922 upgrades, he made it a pre-ban SA85m AK63. The other was converted also with no issues.

I had an Egyptian/Chinese Frankenstein. The gun was very well used and ran like a well broken in rifle. However I couldn’t zero it and couldn’t change the stock without welding. It would have been too much to put into the gun for what it was worth so I sold it and bought a GF3. My son found a nice one with a milled receiver. His is just overall a nicer gun so we’re keeping that one and will upgrade it over time.

I finally settled on a Hungarian SA-85M. Can't beat old imports.

Hell I remember 75 dollar Chinese sks and 250 aks thanks for making me feel old.

Your video popped up in my feed... great video, I have pre ban era norinco nhm91 with a 21" barrel that came with a thumb hole stock that I bought 20 years ago for 200 $... It's still my favorite rifle. I updated it with modern furniture. Ridiculously heavy, but it's my baby.

I got a ban Mak90 a few years ago from a guy that bought a stack of them in the 90’s and just let them sit in a closet till the time was right. They were all pristine condition too. Shoots just great but my god the thumb hole stock is as ergonomic as a 2x4. Swapped out the furniture and need to fix the bayonet lug, muzzle thread, and straighten out the front sight. Looking forward to when I finally get around to undoing it 😂

Recently found a single stack, thumbhole NPAP Zastava. Square back receiver, so it'll take normal furniture. I only wish someone would make reliable 20-25 round single stack mags for it, the tens are on par with the SKS.

Missed this video but glad you’re re-uploading some of your deleted content man, you were my inspiration for making content on youtube😎

the MAK90 is a BEAST

Love my romy SAR1, no idea what it’s worth now but bought it EARLY March of 2020 before everything went to shit. Best part is Noo one wanted it. Was still there on the end of day 3 of a massive gun show. It was a PA show right near the NJ boarder & the seller had stacks of wasrs, on the bottom he had my sar1 w/ a sign stating it was “NJ legal”. For those that don’t know the 94 AWB never expired here in NJ so while somthing like a SAR1 is a total unicorn for me being a NJ resident & AK collector, most saw “NJ legal” & assumed it must be some super lame gun. Picked it up for $800 and is Deff my favorite gun in my collection. The one I’d take it I could only have 1

I have a WUN-1 from Century. The quality is better than some of the Chinese post ban I have own in the past. Yes China had some bad quality firearms. Back in the later 1990s or 2000 . Classic firearms had new Wum-1 parts kit with head space barrel. I purchase two kits for $189.00 each. I fix the thumbhole stock by reshape the grip for my hands ,at the trigger keeping the look of the thumbhole stock. There is a video that show how you can weld and fix the receiver half moon cut. Also I fire a Wum-2 in 5.45x39. That was a sweet shooting gun with no Muzzle brake or compensator. Just a welded nut on the end. of the barrel.The quality I seen on all the Wum riflers was very good,

Man I wish I would’ve stocked up on AK’s and SKS’s back in the day when they were cheap. Now a days you gotta pay to play. I own a couple well built AMD 65’s, very sweet guns that preform great.

The friggin nostalgia GAWD MAN.... GAWD

I have 2 ban era AKs, my Bulgarian SA93 and a Romac Mk2, definitely check headspace on the Romac’s, i’m probably gonna end up having to send mine out to Mario when I get some money because it fails the No go and Go gauges, and I asked around and a lot of people said that they failed headspace even when they were brand new

We had these in germany in that config too. Still some around

I love my Romak 992, I was able to score it half way converted (dong, no sporter stock, Chicom surplus sling) to an AIMS-74, Just need a wire folding stock!

Wish we had gun ranges like that around where I live.

Yeaaaah boy!!! My wum1 furniture has become my favorite furniture. I have the ventless though. Also great to see Crocker!!

I got an NMH90 with krebs safety and peep sight for 450 and a MAk-90 with ulitmak,, surefire 6p light and ace folder for 750 a month ago. Sold the light and mount for 280 on EBAY lol. The deals are out there. Take em when you can

Hey clayco you know anything about woodworking you could leave that thumbhole stock on there and easily finishing up that grip plenty you can mess around and checker it to i would love to have that gun welding a back corner wouldn't be to hard earned her although id probably put a flat back peace on also how pap pistols come without brace

I have several ban era AK's, I'm very fond of them. Still have my first thumbhole single stack Intrac Romy, was like $259 new IIRC.

still have Mac 90 bought it 1993 for180.00 all I've done is recoil spring.

My mac90 is the best shooting ak I own as of now and that includes several pre ban aks . It shoots 1 and half moa .

Can't wait to see you get your hands on a 5.56 WBP Jack and do a video on it. Great videos!

SAR3, MAK90, sar1… and trying to figure out how to let you shoot a spiker from the first Red Dawn movie

The type in and the type m and d SKS is that took AK mags were done around the same time 92 93

The beginning 😂😂😂😂 “okkkk let’s goooo” 😂😂

The one in the thumbnail is considered an assault rifle by the pinkos, it has a "thumbhole stock," a muzzle device, and a >10rnd magazine.

I love how you got so many penalties. It's reminiscent of when the Russian Спетсназ had to rescue people and instead just killed everything including the hostages. And were just like ""да товарищ" job completed

It is absolutely not cursed! I don’t know what it is about you, but you make everything look so fucking cool! Now I want this with the ban full stock. ❤

that cut receiver is a no go

Man, talk about digging through the way back machine to find that sucker.

Bad ass AK and nice shooting dude

I love that AK "SVD" style stock, I seen this basically same AK in the armory at Fort Hood in 2006... I don't remember what I was SUPPOSED to be doing, I just know that it's the AK that I wanted every since... and now I'm still trying to find out who to contact to see when I'm allowed to own firearms... because people in the government are dumb. ☕

Clinton Ban AK's are not my jam, but as usual, you make it look good!

I honestly love the look of the thumbholes hopefully in my lifetime I can have one of these in full auto maybe a type 56 or mak 90 gonna try to get a Hungarian 63 later this year

I know I’m going to get crapped on for this 😂but I like the look of your AK

Gotta love a nice imported AK.

I have a picture of my father with one of theses rifles and a dead javelin pictured with it!! Cool stuff

this is officially the channel of goofy rifle builds

The Maadi's with that big ass tree trunk thumbhole stock hit different 😂

I’ve always been a fan of the ‘90s post ban thumbhole stock AKs since a lot of them are very nice imports. I actually like the Norinco thumbhole stocks like the one on my BWK-92 because it is made out of the good quality Chu wood and it’s actually a very comfortable stock as it has a nice and thick grip, a solid cheek weld, and the rubber butt pad on it is very comfortable to have against your shoulder. My only gripe about the stock is the fact that it is a 2lb solid block of wood. It adds some weight to the rifle, though I don’t mind it too much because I have a decent amount of upper body strength. I may eventually get a Chinese pistol grip and stock on it because I prefer the aesthetic a little more and all of my AKs are unconverted imports.

“Can’t go fast with this” *blinked twice and missed all the firing*

I have two Arsenal USA Las Vegas AK’s. One is a SA-M7 sub 100 serial number. The other is a sub 500 serial number SA-M5S. I have not changed anything. The pinned and welded muzzle brakes seem to be very effective. No bayonet lug but who cares. For up close I have my Glock 17. I am running an Ultimak on the SA-M7. I kept the original gas tube. My big fear is doing a Bubba on these guns. The SA-M7 is a sub-MOA rifle. I have a Leupold Pistol scope for the Sam-7 but run a red dot. How collectible are these early ban guns? The furniture appears to be identical to latest imports. The SA-M7 came with a letter signed by all Bulgarian trained gunsmiths who worked on the gun. I think that is pretty cool.

the muzzle brake did reduce the recoil, looks so smooth but the front grip made you looks uncomfortable holding it

The sar1 was the first gun i bought myself paid 399.99 for it had a freind that worked on a nation wide hail team bought every gun i had its crazy to see these guns us older guys stinky fingered and didnt look at twice bring the money there bringing 💯💪

The prebands were cool

I love it even with the butt stock ! Very nice on the up grades!

It's back!! Dude I found one of these at one of my local shop. Cool but that want way to much it

I got one too, mine is with standard stock and grip though. Extremely accurate rifle. Only bad thing about it is its sidemount. The importer in my country put on it a weird, SVD-like mount which makes the optic ridiciulously high over bore. Thank God, no import ban here in Czech Republic.

I was fairly new to the AK platform during the ‘ban’ period. The thumbhole stocks fit my long fingers and I thought that they looked cool. I despise the mini pistol grips that fit a toddler. Too many guns are made for the lowest common denominator. 😮 Boomer Out! 🇺🇸

LGS has one of these for 600 a couple months ago! Should have scooped it =[

All time favorite is the Saiga 223's Just do rear conversion with ALG and thread muzzle for Jmac 360 and good to go for all your needs. PMC bronze 223 is best ammo. Amazingly accurate and 100% Russian gold. The AK purist's out there will cry for sure. Lol

1 more 4 the AlGoreRythem💪🤙🇺🇸

Great shooting! Thank you for video!

My SAR 1 and Romak 2 are two of my favorites

I personally dont see the reason to spend outrageous amounts of money to get "pre ban" or "ban era" stuff. I dont see how that gives it any inherent value. I have to say that i never really disliked the thumb hole stock. Should never be forced to have it, but the thumb hole stock, especially the one you have, looks kinda cool. Reminds me of the vintorez. I think thats what its called. The integrally suppressed gun that takes the 9x39. Looks like a chopped down Dragunov.

That thing is cleean, gotta be 40 yrs old. I get what your saying about the grip, compared to a stock ak pistol grip (which are tiny) that's gotta be double the size, length lol

If u could get a solid thumb hole stock that doesn't have the big square cut-out u can actually cut it down and shape it into a standard akm style stock. Seen a guy do it with a mac90 when he got done u could never tell it used to be a thumb hole stock that he made into a akm standard stock even mishaco recently did a video about Chinese aks he picked up one that the guy did the same thing

As one who agonized through the ban era, I never thought I would ever wonder if those poor, butchered guns have collector value in their own right. 🤔

I have been into AKs going back to 1988. I have owned more variety of AKs and shot more cheap AK ammo than most ever will in their lifetime. The thing killing the AK world today is lack of available and affordable ammo for working class people. That's what attracted people to this particular gun genre to begin with. The AK market today is for wealthy dilettantes and Unknowning wannabe East bloc larpers. PSA promised ammo 2 years ago, where is it?

How about some WBP JACK content?

That cut on the back of the receiver gives me bubble guts.

Hate to say it but those internals really are better than a Wasr. Why the QC dip? If Romarm is capable of machining like that, I don't get it.

What a fool I was during the AWB being not born for most of it instead of buying guns 😞

The strength of a thousand sons? Or a thousand Suns lol.

You Gun is awesome

I’ve got the slant cut milled MAK-91 from that era and finding conversion kits or even just nice furniture is damned near impossible… does anyone have any suggestions?

I came across one of these at the gun shop 2 weeks ago. Same stock , moon cut …. If anyone’s interested I’ll send ya the name of the shop

Normally I'd continue to say the ban era Aks were an abomination, but you slightly made it look cooler

Peoples hands were bigger during the ban era 😝

Lol that kid was unexpected. Still better party than I ever had

Needs a ultimak rail it goes great with the handguard

I have the best ban Era ak (milled mak 91) please reply if you have a sick ban model or name one better

I was just thinking about ban era rifles...

Mine is a Hungarian made ak that looks the same

You should tapco that thing out . Yeah baby goat status post tapco obviously lol.

Built like tank.... and genes of /!\ Wasr-10.... good day

thoughts on the MAK 90? i really love mine

Norinco 84S in 5.56 😊

She looks great 👍🏾

Very cool

Let's face it, the homie can will with a carrot.

Ban era AK'S are the ugliest in history personally I don't think collectabilty is there you can get Awesome deals on modern full feature guns although if you're collecting for historical purposes i can understand that

Put some shades on! Don't be batting dem big beautiful eyes at Me! 🤣

Where did you get the drum for the 74

They was a company I can't remember their name it's been a long time but they make rifle stocks across-the-board for a lot of boat actions and AR parts and what have you in stock sets but they made one for the AK47 lwork perfectThey was a company I can't remember their name it's been a long time but they make rifle stocks across the board for a lot of boat actions and AR parts and what have you in stock sets but they made 14 the AK47 fillwork perfect The moon cut on the back end worked perfect for the stock