Bought my first AK today.

[Ghetto]

Well technically I guess it's a WASR-10 but whatever ;f

http://www.mustangmods.com/data/22/img_3468.jpg

Paid $319 for it with 2 mags,sling,bayonet etc...

It's a Century from Romania,can't wait to shoot it in the next few weeks,heck I've never even shot an AK before ;a

Thoughts/Comments?

What should I do to this thing?

[454]

Buy more ammo. If you can find any Barnaul Brown Bear--get it. It is cleaner that Wolf, and, at least in my AK, more accurate.

I just picked up 16 ga shotgun brush for cleaning gas tube. It is a very tight fit, but I think it will work well.

[creophus]

Congrats on your purchase. Definitely get tons of ammo and shoot, shoot shoot!

[Berretta9]

Good luck getting ANY ammo right now. I wrote the U.S. distributer for Brown Bear and got a reply today. He said they simply had a large in country order for their own militay and it would be another 45 to 60 days. I have found that my AK shoots fairly well with any brand ammo. My SKS however only likes the good stuff.

[SJRTX]

Go by Academy and pick up some of the Monarch in the 20rnd boxes. Its fairly cheap (2.87 a box I think), and made by Barnaul.

Wolf is good too so buy that stuff in bulk if you find it for a decent price.

[bigbore bob]

Congrats. You may also find www.ak-47.net useful. Many of the AK variants are imported with poorly machined fire contol parts. Do a search on this site and you can fix any trigger slap that it may have.
I have many different AKs but the Romanian is a fun shooter.

[bigbore bob]

one of my SAR-1's or the Romanian 7.62x39 has been used and abused. I ran over 20K rounds through it before I cleaned it. (I initially put axel grease on the slide and bolt). The extractor finally broke. I replaced it and it runs like new. The sloppy tolerances make for a very tough, extreme ammo eating rifle.