This is an AK-pattern rifle in 7.62x39mm built on a new DDI 47SF stamped side-folding receiver, marked DDI, Knoxville, TN, USA, Caliber 7.62X39MM, Model 47SF. It is not a factory DDI rifle: the receiver is DDI's, and the rifle was assembled around it with a Bulgarian-pattern rear folding trunnion, a new US-made nitride barrel and a Romanian military parts kit, with 1984 NS 5338 on the rear sight block and SG 3976 on the gas block. Furniture is black polymer, with a ribbed handguard, a pistol grip and a skeletonized side-folding stock. An AK side sight rail is installed on the left of the receiver. The bore is bright with strong rifling. The rifle carries serial D0010xx and comes with one Romanian magazine and a sling.
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 bolts, carriers, gas systems and sight blocks so regularly turn up on American-made receivers. This rifle is one of those builds, the kit's arsenal-marked steel carried on new American parts with modern polymer furniture in place of the Romanian wood.
Specifications
Country of origin: Receiver United States, parts kit Romania
Configuration: AK-pattern side-folding rifle
Action: Gas-operated semi-automatic, long-stroke piston
Bolt carrier: Original military surplus configuration, full-auto sear trip intact
Caliber: 7.62x39mm
Serial: D0010xx
Receiver: New DDI 47SF stamped side-folding receiver, marked DDI Knoxville TN USA
Assembly: Built on the DDI receiver; not a factory DDI rifle
Trunnion: Bulgarian-pattern rear folding trunnion
Barrel: New US-made nitride barrel
Parts kit: Romanian, rear sight block marked 1984 NS 5338, gas block marked SG 3976
Furniture: Black polymer pistol grip and ribbed handguard, skeletonized side-folding stock
Sights: Front post, adjustable rear
Optic mount: AK side sight rail installed
Bore: Bright with strong rifling
Included: One Romanian magazine and a sling
Mechanical condition: Test fired for function; rivets and headspace checked and within spec
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.
