You don’t see a lot of these. I snagged it just before the ban. Very few had cleared Customs so I knew it would go up.

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Those are fairly rare. Nice example! I really like the red phenolic furniture.

Very nice! I've been keeping my eye out for a VZ 58 but not much out there. The wood impregnated plastic furniture (aka beaver barf) on some of them is unique.

Nice; the only way that gets better is with a milled receiver and spike.

A very nice example. I have one that I had for several years before I discovered the little cleaning kit located in the stock insert. Surprised the heck out of me when I pushed in the little pin and the spring loaded kit popped out.

That's a beauty

Nice! I own one too, specifically the example shown in the Vickers AK47 book.

Very nice!
I've got a friend that has a Norinco double under-folder (spike in front, stock in back) I've been trying to get from him for years ...

He said he wouldn't sell it to me for what its worth because he'd feel bad, I told him to sell it to me for what he paid and 3% interest, its more than the bank would pay.

He laughed, said he'd give it to me in his will ... but I'll probably die before he does!

Here are mine.
One is a factory Chinese build (the one pictured in the Vickers book) and the other was imported as an unfired demilled kit and built stateside (since parted with to help offset the proper Chinese rifle purchase)

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Originally posted by PGT:
Nice! I own one too, specifically the example shown in the Vickers AK47 book.

Cool. I don’t have the book but I assume we’re talking about same model, unless by specifically you mean you bought #86 from Larry Vicker’s collection at the auction linked below. If so, wow! Mine was part of the same run at PLA arsenal 416 and was imported in the same batch by Keng’s Firearms Specialty. Others were made at factory 386, and Sile also managed to got some in before the ban.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/876476603

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Originally posted by P210:

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Originally posted by PGT:
Nice! I own one too, specifically the example shown in the Vickers AK47 book.

Cool. I don’t have the book but I assume we’re talking about same model, unless by specifically you mean you bought #86 from Larry Vicker’s collection at the auction linked below. If so, wow! Mine was part of the same run at PLA arsenal 416 and was imported in the same batch by Keng’s Firearms Specialty. Others were made at factory 386, and Sile also managed to got some in before the ban.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/876476603

No, the guns in his books are not all his. A friend knows him and the photog and loaned his NIB one to them for the book. I posted pics above...mine's a Poly Tech vs. Norinco rollmarked gun; you can tell by the standard grip shape vs. the profiled one on Norinco marked guns.

Nice AK!

Beautiful

Stunning AK P210! Thank you for sharing.

Side question. Do you find the side folders harder to shoot than a fixed stock rifle?

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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
Side question. Do you find the side folders harder to shoot than a fixed stock rifle?

Speaking for myself, those and the triangle sidefolders are decent. Underfolders and the Hungarian single-strut sidefolders not so much.

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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
Side question. Do you find the side folders harder to shoot than a fixed stock rifle?

Not at all. They “lifted” it from Israel’s Galil variant so it’s quite good plus has better length of pull, an inch longer than wood and under fold stocks.

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Originally posted by PGT:
No, the guns in his books are not all his. A friend knows him and the photog and loaned his NIB one to them for the book. I posted pics above...mine's a Poly Tech vs. Norinco rollmarked gun; you can tell by the standard grip shape vs. the profiled one on Norinco marked guns.

So I take it yours was in the same batch from 416. Interesting considering how few. I have the box and everything too but it has about 200 rounds through it. Unlike you I couldn’t resist. It’s been in storage for 30 years since though and has only been out a couple times for inspection and wipe down.

As I recall the Norinco ones were built for export from the start while ours actually came off the military assembly line which had very high standards and stringent quality control, and thus a commensurate quality difference.

Norinco models also lack some not obvious features such as, for example, a spring retained firing pin. Not a big issue with hard primers used in military machine gun ammo but with softer commercial primers it’s a nice to have safety feature.

Nice. I have the box too and an original sealed Poly Tech magazine but the +2 and bayo and manual are long since separated. The box was in such tatters from water damage during storage, I drove 3hrs ea way to meet my buddy at a shooting event (he works for Dead Air Silencers) to pick it up (he shipped the rifle itself to my FFL).