amoebicmagician
Samopal Goblin
+1. For that price I would rather buy a WASR plus a bunch of ammo/mags.
Say what you want about WASR's but at least they are built in an actual AK arsenal that has been building them for 51 years for their military and uses new hammer forged chrome-lined barrels of known quality. Even after their quality took a nose dive after their 1983 purges it is still better than a lot of the crap American builders are coming out with today. The only reason I sold mine was because I came to find out I did not like underfolders at least on a 7.62x39 rifle since shooting it sucked with that stock for me.
I give the well-known domestic boutique assemblers a pass (Krebs, etc.) because they care but the others I refuse to give them my time or energy.
My first AK was a Cugir assembled WASR, not the ones that century pieced together but made and manufactured at cugir and imported only the conversion to double stack magazines.
Still have that gun, it has never failed me. In thousands of rounds the only failures I've had were from a steel magazine that was dented so the follower could not rise past a certain point in the body. The machining in the cam channel for the bolt looks crude, but functions 100%. I thought that was shoddy workmanship until I saw an arsenal that had visible machine marks of the same type, if of slightly smoother affect.
WASRs get shit on too much.