Future of the 5.45mm in trhe USA

[GlockViking]

With Arsenal not having ANY 5.45mm rifles in their inventory and the lack of 5.45mm spare parts at K-VAR, I am beginning to wonder if 5.45mm is on its way out?

Arsenal couldn't make enough of the rifles when I bought my SLR-105 three years ago...I had to get on a waiting list.

Now all of those rifles are discontinued/out of stock. What gives?

Anyone got the scoop on this?

[CnRnut]

That is a very good thing. Maybe the price of 5.45x39 ammo will
drop if they stop making them.

CnRnut

[graveman]

....the WASR2 is still being imported :upeyes:

I am guessing the Arsenal 5.45's didn't go well because all the ammo comes from outside the US; also the cost of the rifles, even though lower than most of the 7.62x39 models ( for which ammo is available at Wally World ), had probably something to do with it. I managed to buy one of the last SLR-105's in the spring..... most accurate AK I've fired, but a lot of it has to do with the round itself.

GlockViking,
What do you call "spare 5.45 parts" ? Aside from bolt, barrel ( why? barrel wears out, an AK is trashed, and more importantly how does one wear a barrel out :shocked: ), carrier ( although one could use a AK-100 series that takes the "skinny bolt" ), extractor and firing pin ( again, 1000's of rounds before either of these goes to crap if proper care is exercised ..... you're not at war so clean your AK every now and then .:supergrin: ), and of course magazines, all other parts are interchangable between AK's.

[GlockViking]

Originally posted by graveman
....the WASR2 is still being imported :upeyes:

I am guessing the Arsenal 5.45's didn't go well because all the ammo comes from outside the US; also the cost of the rifles, even though lower than most of the 7.62x39 models ( for which ammo is available at Wally World ), had probably something to do with it. I managed to buy one of the last SLR-105's in the spring..... most accurate AK I've fired, but a lot of it has to do with the round itself.

GlockViking,
What do you call "spare 5.45 parts" ? Aside from bolt, barrel ( why? barrel wears out, an AK is trashed, and more importantly how does one wear a barrel out :shocked: ), carrier ( although one could use a AK-100 series that takes the "skinny bolt" ), extractor and firing pin ( again, 1000's of rounds before either of these goes to crap if proper care is exercised ..... you're not at war so clean your AK every now and then .:supergrin: ), and of course magazines, all other parts are interchangable between AK's.

Spares are always a good thing to have...not that I am paranoid!!! Ha ha

[m4arc]

Originally posted by CnRnut
That is a very good thing. Maybe the price of 5.45x39 ammo will
drop if they stop making them.

CnRnut

I've already seen this happening in my area. One of my local shops received a couple of pallets of Wolf 5.45 and when no one (except for me) was buying it they dropped the price to $140 per case.

While that's not as good as it once was it's better than it was.

[mjd932]

I sure hope the price of ammo goes down. I bought a WASR-2 and just recently finally found rounds for it. I ended up paying a crapload though. I don't think there are any good deals left on 5.45 and I haven't even gotten to shoot mine yet! :sad: