Thread: Anyone got one of the NHM 90 Norinco AK47's?

The Chinese AK's have thicker receivers and barrels than most others. The build quality is supposedly quite good compared to some European ones, namely the Romanian ones. Though their crappy rep probably has a lot to do with the monkeys at Century arms putting together pieces of shit from parts kits. A lot of yanks put the Norinco's up there with the Bulgarian ones. My own AK experience is limited to Saiga's, I've only ever handled a 56S (the NHM90's evil brother) at a service shoot. The quality seemed ok from what I could gather. AK's are capable of perfectly adequate service type accuracy, good enough for shooting shit at say 200m or less. For example, my .223 shot absolutely terrible off the bench, but I could still keep my shots inside a Figure 12 at 200m. At the last IMAS semi auto champ, another guy there had an AK103 type Saiga, 7.62X39, open sights and he was doing bloody good at 200m all things considered.

AK's by design do not have a bolt hold open feature. Saiga's have a little lever below the trigger group you can push up to lock the bolt open, but that's about it. My one broke and caused regular stoppages, so I shoved blue take in the receiver to wedge it down in typical commie peasant fashion. Some magazines apparently have followers which lock the bolt open on the last shot. If you really won't it, a bubba way of keeping the action open is to cut a notch in the dust cover for the charging handle to reside in, H&K/AUG style.

Also remember that a stock Norinco will be unfriendly to optics. This is easily solved by installing a Saiga type side mount on the receiver. The cheap UTG QD mounts work surprisingly well with the Saiga rails. Or you can get a Railed forend and use a red dot sight. A TWS mount would be the nicest option for optics.

Good luck