Comments for Sandman's Whatziss. Really, whatziss?

Sandman's Whatziss. Really, whatziss?

2007-04-20T14:36:13Z

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:

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?

Comment from Biggame223 on 2007-04-21

2007-04-21T18:33:41Z

"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!

Comment from sandman6actual on 2007-04-21

2007-04-21T05:37:15Z

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-04-20

2007-04-21T01:22:30Z

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!

Comment from Pogue on 2007-04-20

2007-04-21T00:27:52Z

Biggame223, that makes sense to me. I wonder how it got into an AK...

Comment from Biggame223 on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T22:52:11Z

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

Comment from Pogue on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T22:02:11Z

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!

Comment from Maggie on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T21:18:20Z

WK - You are a bad influence.

Comment from WereKitten on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T20:23:16Z

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

Comment from sandman6actual on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T20:10:46Z

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??