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<blockquote data-quote="aestus" data-source="post: 2583000" data-attributes="member: 2989"><p>AK's don't have lock back. It's not part of the design. </p><p></p><p>You can "fake" lockback by buying magazines with special followers that hold the bolt open when the mag is empty (Yugo magazines). However, as soon as you pull the magazine out, the bolt will slam forward as AK's don't have lockback capability in the design. You will then have to rack the bolt to load a bullet from a freshly loaded mag.</p><p></p><p>I don't like Yugo style magazines that hold the bolt open while empty because it makes doing fast reloads harder. The bolt is putting a lot of pressure on the magazine follower, so doing fast reloads like using the new magazine to slap the mag catch to knock the empty mag out is harder to do with the bolt now also applying pressure to the magazine.</p><p></p><p>Don't expect to run your AK like an AR. You'll have to learn the new weapons system and battery of arms. You'll learn to immediately reload when you hear the "click" of an empty chamber and quickly insert a new mag and then reach under or over to rack the charging handle back with each new reload. Just the reality of running an AK.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aestus, post: 2583000, member: 2989"] AK's don't have lock back. It's not part of the design. You can "fake" lockback by buying magazines with special followers that hold the bolt open when the mag is empty (Yugo magazines). However, as soon as you pull the magazine out, the bolt will slam forward as AK's don't have lockback capability in the design. You will then have to rack the bolt to load a bullet from a freshly loaded mag. I don't like Yugo style magazines that hold the bolt open while empty because it makes doing fast reloads harder. The bolt is putting a lot of pressure on the magazine follower, so doing fast reloads like using the new magazine to slap the mag catch to knock the empty mag out is harder to do with the bolt now also applying pressure to the magazine. Don't expect to run your AK like an AR. You'll have to learn the new weapons system and battery of arms. You'll learn to immediately reload when you hear the "click" of an empty chamber and quickly insert a new mag and then reach under or over to rack the charging handle back with each new reload. Just the reality of running an AK. [/QUOTE]
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