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I would love for Brandon to put out a series of him just fixing cursed AKs…

Some people rescue humans, others rescue animals. But Brandon, well, Brandon rescues cursed AK builds.

This guy managed to add a bolt lock to his AK.. a true visionary

Where is video where it’s fixed?!?!

The rifle not wanting to chamber a round is trying to tell you “You really don’t want to shoot me. Please shoot any other rifle.” It’s a not-so-subtle suggestion.

Wow, whoever built this went all out. He went straight past adding a last round bolt hold open to the AK and added a FIRST round bolt hold open!

16:53 How it feels when you pick up a SCAV weapon in Tarkov... while the SCAV itself had no problem mag dumping it at you

I feel like this is the equivalent of the controller you give to your sibling when they wanna co-op

+1 to the idea of brandon having a small series of "AK rescue" where he buys just the shoddiest, worst AKs ever touched by Bubba

Gun builder: "I can make an AK no problemo" Brandon: "But it was all problemo."

Brandon:*shakes ak to show how bad it is* Me a soldier: that’s what my M4 in basic sounded like

One year later and still no happy ending......

This is like one of Gordon Ramsey's old shows where he goes to terrible restaurants and tries to fix them. It's like Brandon is the Gordon Ramsey of AKs.

That ricochet taking off like a jet flying away at the 19 min mark was insane. I would've called it quits there too 🤣🤣🤣

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first ever single shot bolt action AK-47 😂

Did this gun ever get salvaged? Would love to see it brought back to life.

You gotta admit, it’s a little bit impressive that someone who clearly has zero idea what he’s doing can still manage to cobble it together and get it to actually shoot.

Gun: sails a round off into Narnia AK Guy: looks up nervously. And that's how the first casualty of the Space Force occurred.

Just saw this vid and wow! I saw one like that a few years ago that was only screwed together, not a single rivet on the whole build and it was loose front and back just like that one. I have built 2 myself A Romanian RPK and a Bulgarian 74. I used the proper stuff to build mine, all build tools and rivets from AK Builder.I have been subscribed for about a year here so..... Keep up the good work Brandon

Brendon Herreras nightmares brought to life, the “cursed Ak47 builds”

watching brandon rack the slide over and over was like watching peter griffin try to pick the frog up off the floor using nothing but the lid of a shoebox and fail repeatedly

If everyone had the same dedication to fixing the problems plaguing thier fields of interest that Brandon just showed... there is hope for this world.

18:55 too the moon billy

I’m just learning about guns. So I’m sure firing an AK is way outside my experience zone. I just have to say as I’m watching Brandon fight with the cycling is cracking me up. I’m just thinking if it was me in a real life or death situation, I’d be like “ hey guys could you slow down I’m trying to kill you and this gun isn’t getting the next round set up right, do you mind?” Yep I’m dead.

I like how it makes a rattle sound when it's merely handled, like every Hollywood gun (including handguns), whenever someone grabs them. Authentic! LOL

this gun is basically: "when you have arts and crafts at 8 but have to join a militia at 9"

Awesome video as always Brandon. And you didn't disappoint with the numerous innuendos. Good luck with your congressional race.

I imagine that the guy that built the receiver didnt expect anyone to really shoot the gun

Somehow, they managed to turn an AK into a less reliable Mosin variant.

I feel like the great Shovel AK is a significant step up above this thing.

To this day, i have nightmares of buying an ak, and bubba breaking into my house at night and doing what he does

Coming back and watching Brandon's alcoholic decent into madness is mildy relatable

When the video flipped to him wearing a Ballistic Helmet with a Face Shield I damn near woke up my family from laughing, plus the “Scott Insurance” add on was pure gold

Congratulations to the gunsmith. He was able to create an unreliable AK.

Can’t wait to see the video of you bringing that thing back to life

thanks for the laughs & educated breakdowns. stay good

Forgotten Weapons Ian: "This is undoubtedly the worst AK I have ever seen" Bubba: "Hold my beer"

My M16 in basic sounded exactly like that when you shook it. There was 1/8" of play between the upper and lower. How I qualified sharpshooter is beyond me.

Honestly as someone who has never even fired or owned a firearm before I've never experienced how painful experiencing being in the presence of something like that AK is.

That gun straight up looks like something you would pick up off the ground after a gunfight in Far Cry 2.

That AK looks like it's been through all of the yugoslav wars, on all of the most intensive fronts... at the same time

No no no Brandon. This is an amazingly built gun with variable magazine positioning, variable trunnion positioning and it’s actually UK legal as it isn’t capable of semi-auto fire

That AK looked like it was built on the show: Forged In Fire, but the guy who built it, failed to move past Round 2.

I Think the Fact it functioned at all was a minor miracle. RIP Mikhail Kalashnikov, Father of the Modern Assault Rifle.

18:55 there’s just something about this implying this AK messed up the round’s trajectory and caused it to madly ricochet, the whistle and Brandon’s reaction just make it pure gold to me

Brandon is just showing a forgotten weapon, the “Ak Bolt Action”

Love your videos and sense of humor

Nice one brandon I love your new bolt action AK!

what some may see as non-proper cycling due to the receiver being """slightly""" out of spec, others see as an over-zealous last round bolt hold open feature

In Poland, we have a saying : "It doesn't need to be perfectly straight, It's not meant for shooting" (hope I translated it correctly). I bet that's what the guy making this rifle thought

Still waiting for that repair video because each day it's not repaired is a day where that AK cries out in pain from its misshapen organs...

When homemade paper guns are actually better than your first real AK build

If you’re a 40k dork (like me) you know what I mean when I say this is what Ork auto rifles look like, literally working through pure force of belief

The first two seconds of seeing the gun were incredible. 1. "Well, that's not so-" 2. "DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT" And it just got worse from there. It's like a blindfolded orc tried to make an AK in Khyber Pass #akgnotificationsquad

Thats soooo funny man -good work!!!

That last round ricocheting off to god knows where and Brandon's reaction like 'yeah I'm done' just had me rolling

I think Brandon has misunderstood the genius of this bubba fuckery. The bashed in bulge is to make it more aerodynamic. The lack of rivets is for weight savings. This gun was built for speed, and every feature serves that purpose. This isn't cursed, this is top tier craftsmanship for elite operations.

Just realised that because of the way feeding barely works, you have to manually force the bolt carrier forward, essentialy making this a 7.62x39 garand

This video was A blast to watch

You could at least give the engineer who put this AK together SOME credit. The bolt hold-open feature worked EVERY TIME.

The last round sailing off into the distance gave me just the right amount of anxiety

the recoil pulse feels like an bolt because it is one in essence

That gun looks like it needs a nap

Finally, a "fully semi-automatic" weapon. Capable of full auto, but only in theory!

"The AK is the most reliable platform you can build" Whoever built this gun: "is that a challenge?"

you are more in danger shooting this thing than the person being shot at 😂😂

I love that at multiple points, you can tell he is honestly angry about this gun. I agree, It is a travesty. Like when people try to make the original Ak-47 a "modern gun."

Cons: - ugly - has more play and creak than a $2 water gun - functions 1/10 times - is essentially bolt action - cycles as reliably as my 25 year old washing machine - gassed worse than an empty propane tank - bends it like beckham - probably will explode more reliably than an IED Pros: - is gun

I would like to see the dynamic chemistry when Brandon joins Zach and Mike (the two dudes (i think) who made Zach Gun Rants of Fallout). I think both Brandon and Zach ( I might have mixed up the two) would share two braincells together when they see a hacked off AK.

you are so good brandon that the gun REALLY tried to not fail on you

Reminds me of an Ork weapon in 40k 😂 Just smashing some metal together and make it work with pure willpower

Ah don't worry, I'm sure literally everyone you hand that to would flinch when shooting it. Kinda hard not to when you're holding an Ork-made grenade.

Everyone: "You can't make a bolt-action AK47!" The guy who bubba-fucked this M70: "Hold my beer"

did not expect brandon herrera to make a markiplier reference, but here we are! truly the crossover of the two most handsome men on youtube of all time also that poor, poor M70 did, genuinely, get worse as it went on

This bears a strange resemblance to those 'your brain is trying to recognise an object but can't' images.

Airport security: Sir, do you have a gun in that bag? Brandon: formally, yes. AS: what do you mean by formally? B:I mean that technically it can under certain circumstances and under some definitions count as a gun. AS: and what does it count as outside that? B: heresy? Health hazard? A bom...

I feel like Brandon can make a whole channel just dedicated to fixing cursed shit lol

That AK is the equivalent of "Stay away from my man".... That Man

It should have been marketed as an “AK-911” and shipped wrapped in a “Stick a Thumb In It” t-shirt.

I've never seen someone accidentally build a bolt action AK before. Neat.

This reminds me of my DIY AK build, I got a romanian AK-47 receiver and Romanian AK-47 parts kit. I had everything but a bolt head which was aquired later on, the FFL said a "YUGO" would work just fine. Sadly I dont have the tooling to put it together myself, so that local FFL that does (questionable at best) gunsmithing said he could put it together no problem (prior to my learning he cant do good work). 400$-600$ later in gunsmithing fees I had an AK. (Which at the time, the cost of everything was still cheaper than an AK on the market and I didnt want century arms) Ugly but it seemed to function, later it would be revealed that the magazine couldn't reach far enough up into the mag well so the bolt could extract a round from the magazine. After widening a magazines feed lips on the backside and buying other mags along with having the FFL work on it a few more times, the entire cost of the failed AK would be around (Receiver + Parts Kit + Gunsmithing Fee's) 1200$-1500$. - Thankfully I was able to sell it for 950$ to someone else that wanted to take it on! BUT! "Almost" ONE YEAR LATER! I happened to be at the gunshop the transfer was done at for the buyer of said AK, the shop owner told me "Hey, interesting tid bit of information. We still have that AK you sold that guy. Its in the BACK! Curious I asked the owner why it was still there after almost a year. The owner informed me, that the buyer of my AK ended up in hot water and he cannot purchase firearms until he gets certain things taken care of. A week or so later I found the guy working between the town I live in and the next bigger town south of me, joking and knowly I asked him about the AK he doesn't have "Hey I remember you, how's the AK doing?" The guy claimed "Oh I took a file to it and its working great". A few days later I ended up at the same gunshop again and asked the shop owner if the AK was still there and I was told "Yep, the AK is still in the back and the guy is still in hot water" 😂😂😂 Next time I'm at the shop I should see about purchasing it back and have @Brandon Herrera do a "Cursed Romanian AK" video! 😂😂😂😂😂 (Sorry if this was a long post!)

Looking back at this it reminds me of the new AK12 where the mag has to be at an agnle for the weapon to work.

That smashed to shit receiver, shaky ass rear truneon, horrible chambering, and so much else about this poor AK is gonna give me nightmares😭

This gun is like when you don't repair a gun in fallout new vegas

"Recoil impulse is more like a bolt gun" And the operation of it certainly seems similar as well

Brandon went through the extreme to get that AK, it was so extreme, in fact, that it was a harder journey that what your parents described going to school was.

Glad you got a bolt action ak with a very cool backstory man!

That ricochet at the end of the range test was wild, just as cursed as the rifle it was fired from

I think I could make a better one with my eyes closed and my hands chopped off and my neck broken

Epic prank: Swap the mags from your friends rifle to only have 1 round in a mag but here’s the best part… Do it in war

Definitely want to see this restored, but this is clearly a job for Gun Jesus - who else could bring this Lazarus AK back to life.

I was seriously disappointed the test firing didn't involve a long pull string and a blast shield.

It just proves how horrible an AK has to be for it to fail to function. It looks like someone ran over the received with a tank, and then straightened it with a screwdriver and a hammer while replacing the lost rivets and with whatever was laying around.... yet, it still could send rounds down range, albeit restricted.

“Rapid unscheduled disassembly” I laughed way too hard at this. “Rapid unscheduled disassembly” I laughed way too hard at this.

I love how the guy who made the ak, turned a assault rifle into a bolt action in in order to fire the damn thing

I honestly don't understand all the hate for this gun. The safety features on it are so ahead of it's time! If there is too much pressure in the chamber, the gun will automatically disassemble itself to prevent harm to the user! Honestly a genius implementation to a firearm

Imagine if guns in Tarkov eventually degraded to this kind of condition as the durability goes down. 100% would love to see a breakdown and rework for this rifle. It desperately needs some real love.

bruh watching you trying to chamber that after each round, is HILARIOUS

The original builder unknowingly built a CA compliant rife