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Sandman's Whatziss. Really, whatziss?

By The Armorer on April 20, 2007 | | Comments (9)

Yesterday, I put up a pic that Sandman6 (a deployed Marine) sent in for a whatziss challenge.

Truth - the thing stumps me, because it if's what Sandman says it is - it's a completely new version of that type of bolt to me.

Sandman says it's the bolt to this:

Chinese (?) AK variant.

Roughly double-sized pic here.

To see the rest of the carrier - click here.

This is the bolt and carrier from one of the Castle's Romanian WASR rifles.

Certainly, the Whatziss looks like an AK-style bolt and carrier - but I've never seen one like that - and I've thus far been unable to find a pic or diagram of an RPK bolt and carrier. Mebbe one of you guys in the Sandboxes can get a gander at one?

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By sandman6actual on April 20, 2007 3:10 PM
WOOHOO!!! One of my whatzeedoos made it!! I'm so happy I could just (*jump up and down, making others stare and point while snickering behind their hands*) That bolt/carrier assembly came out of that thar rifle, I promise. I wasn't terribly familiar with the AK/PKM/whatever series of weapons, so I was afraid I was gonna break something, it didn't want to go in properly, so I had to use a little force.....but come to find out, the harder you are on those things, the more they like it, I guess......DYK you can clean the bolt on those with sand??
 
By WereKitten on April 20, 2007 3:23 PM
Sandman... if you haven't done it yet, you really should go check out the picture of the 3rd SB Brigade supplied by Bill in the original whatziss post... hee
 
By Maggie on April 20, 2007 4:18 PM
WK - You are a bad influence.
 
By Pogue on April 20, 2007 5:02 PM
Sandman, do you think you could get a picture of the inards of the reciever? I'd like to see what that thing below the bolt is engaging. Is it a rate reducer or some kind of different sear? The pin placement on the side of the rifle looks like it has the standard AK sear... Oh, yeah, we used sand to clean the carbon off the op rod on our SAWs. Worked great!
 
By Biggame223 on April 20, 2007 5:52 PM
Goto this link, the carrier group in question is pictured. The claw above the bolt is to extract the 7.62X54R RIMMED cartridge from the non-desintergrating PKM belt..... I have taken so many apart I have lost count.... Only thing it has in common w/ the AK in the post is that they were designed by the same man, and it shows in the designs... http://www.militarygunsupply.com/images/PARTS/hunPKMKIT.jpg
 
By Pogue on April 20, 2007 7:27 PM
Biggame223, that makes sense to me. I wonder how it got into an AK...
 
By John of Argghhh! on April 20, 2007 8:22 PM
BigGame - I was partial to your PKM answer from yesterday, and I'm grumpy I couldn't google my way to the link you provided! Ah, I see my mistake. Here I was googling PKM bolt, etc, and shoulda been googling PKMkit!
 
By sandman6actual on April 21, 2007 12:37 AM
Pogue: No go, that was a one-time deal. Glad to see someone figured it out, heck, I thought all along that it was just an AK bolt, never thought it would bring up this level of discussion.
 
By Biggame223 on April 21, 2007 1:33 PM
"Glad to see someone figured it out, heck, I thought all along that it was just an AK bolt.." No worries sandman, I have been training Marines on this wep system CONUS for a couple of years now, guess you were not in my class.. 8^p Stay safe!
 
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