This is a Romanian AK built on a Recreator Blanks FORTY-7 receiver in 7.62x39mm and carrying the correct Romanian markings, the kit dated 1988 and numbered ACM 0735 on the left of the receiver and again on the gas block. The barrel is the original Romanian chrome-lined barrel, bright with sharp rifling, and the kit numbers match throughout. The bayonet, marked HP 1567, is not numbered to the rifle. The selector is marked FA and FF, an AK side sight rail is fitted, and the furniture is Romanian wood with the forward-canted vertical foregrip. The left side of that foregrip carries what look like tally marks, five vertical lines in total, with further scribed marks alongside them, all left as found. The rifle carries serial RJ208xx and comes with a leather sling, bayonet, Romanian magazine, cleaning kit, oiler and a three-cell magazine pouch.
Romanian AK parts kits come off the Pistol Mitraliera model 1963 and its folding-stock sibling the model 1965, built at the Cugir Arms Factory in Alba County under Soviet licence from 1963 and regarded as a close copy of the AKM, differing only in minor details. Both are chambered in 7.62x39mm and feed from a 30-round detachable box magazine. The feature collectors key on is the wooden vertical foregrip, canted forward on the md. 63 and raked back on the md. 65 so the underfolding stock clears it; the export versions went out as the AIM and the AIMS. Large numbers left Romania after 1989 and reached the United States as demilled kits with the original receiver torch-cut, which is why Romanian steel so regularly turns up on American-made receivers. This rifle is one of those builds, carrying its original barrel and matching kit numbers on a new American receiver.
Specifications
Country of origin: Receiver United States, parts kit Romania
Configuration: AK-pattern rifle, fixed stock, forward vertical foregrip
Action: Gas-operated semi-automatic, long-stroke piston
Bolt carrier: Original military surplus configuration, full-auto sear trip intact
Caliber: 7.62x39mm
Serial: RJ208xx
Receiver: Recreator Blanks FORTY-7, Fallsington, Pennsylvania
Parts kit: Romanian, dated 1988 and marked ACM 0735
Matching: All numbers matching, except the bayonet, which is not numbered to the rifle
Barrel: Original Romanian, chrome lined
Bore: Bright with sharp rifling
Furniture: Romanian wood stock, handguards and forward vertical foregrip
Sights: Front post, adjustable rear
Optic mount: AK side sight rail installed
Features: Selector marked FA and FF; what look like tally marks on the left side of the vertical foregrip, five vertical lines in total, with further scribed marks alongside, left as found; bayonet marked HP 1567
Included: Leather sling, bayonet, Romanian magazine, cleaning kit, oiler, three-cell magazine pouch
The rifle is semi-automatic, and the bolt carrier group is left in its original military surplus configuration with the full-auto sear trip intact.
These rifles are built with military surplus kits and are not cosmetically perfect, as the parts have seen service. Each gun has been test fired to ensure functionality, and the rivets and headspace have been checked and are well within spec. These are not cosmetically perfect guns, and that is part of the appeal of these guns.
