We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:30:03 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:36:13 -0600 "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! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59291 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59291 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:33:41 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59282 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59282 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:37:15 -0600 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! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59274 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59274 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:22:30 -0600 Biggame223, that makes sense to me. I wonder how it got into an AK... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59272 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59272 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:27:52 -0600 http://www.militarygunsupply.com/images/PARTS/hunPKMKIT.jpg]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59269 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59269 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:52:11 -0600 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! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59266 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59266 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:02:11 -0600 WK - You are a bad influence. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59264 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59264 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:18:20 -0600 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 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59262 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59262 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:23:16 -0600 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?? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59260 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/sandmans_whatzi.html#comment-59260 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:10:46 -0600