Reasonably-priced ambi safety?

lew · November 13, 2018, 19:02

I'm looking for an AK safety that can be manipulated by the firing hand thumb (left side). Doesn't need a bolt hold open notch or anything fancy on the dust cover side.

slavicshooter · November 14, 2018, 11:03

Lew, check your email. ~ss

slavicshooter · November 15, 2018, 00:19

http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152744
~ss

lew · November 15, 2018, 11:35

Again, spasibo, tovarisch!

FNfreak · November 15, 2018, 21:55

Buy a Tantal....

lew · November 19, 2018, 12:25

Why?

FNfreak · November 26, 2018, 18:46

Tantal is one of the only AK designs specifically designed with a safety on the left side. It is comfortable and easy to access although STIFF because you are not only manipulating left side small safety lever but ALSO the large rightside dustcover/safety lever. It's a LOT OF MASS/FRICTION TO MOVE WITH JUST A FLICK OF THE THUMB. There are few accessories that improve the function of an AK...a ambi safety is definitely LOW on the list and 100% NOT an improvement unless adding a tedious and difficult to use procedure is your idea of "improving" something.

I am NOT slamming you for wanting the safety improved. Just "improving" such a simple "platform" with TACTICAL features often does NOT give desired results. Some form of decent rail will give you 100x more benefit to the function of an AK than a safety "upgrade" or mag release extension.

The AK is a brutally simple machine... trying to turn it into something more only takes YOU and the design BACKWARDS....learn the system and accommodate it. Trying to force an AK to be a AR15 or something else more "tactical" is a mistake. Embrace the simplicity and use it to your advantage. Force it to become something it is not....and it will fail you

lew · November 28, 2018, 20:26

The AK is a range toy, nothing more. While I am competent with its handling, I have AR's and an XCR for the tacticool stuff. I'd take my G3 or MAS 49-56's for anything serious long before I reached for the AK. The safety is simply a point of irritation, If I don't do anything about it, no harm, no foul. If I can improve that area of operation cheaply and effectively, excellent. Peace!

nopec · December 02, 2018, 19:41

For what it's worth, I just drilled with mine until I could operate the selector with my support hand.

lew · December 03, 2018, 15:49

Reaching under the rifle with the support hand (presumably the left) to activate /deactivate the safety? Hadn't thought of that.

November 13, 2018, 19:02	#1
lew Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 16727 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 8,179	Reasonably-priced ambi safety? I'm looking for an AK safety that can be manipulated by the firing hand thumb (left side). Doesn't need a bolt hold open notch or anything fancy on the dust cover side. __________________ Statism: Ideas so great, they're mandatory. "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens

November 14, 2018, 11:03	#2
slavicshooter Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 74022 Join Date: May 2014 Location: Hannibal, Mo. Posts: 3,450	Lew, check your email. ~ss __________________ " In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from the devil. It binds us to God. All other freedoms are illusory, false, that is to say, they are all, in fact, slavery."~St. Justin Popovitch " Slavs are fueled by booze. I thought this was common knowledge."~lew юродивый

November 15, 2018, 00:19	#3
slavicshooter Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 74022 Join Date: May 2014 Location: Hannibal, Mo. Posts: 3,450	http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152744 ~ss __________________ " In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from the devil. It binds us to God. All other freedoms are illusory, false, that is to say, they are all, in fact, slavery."~St. Justin Popovitch " Slavs are fueled by booze. I thought this was common knowledge."~lew юродивый

November 15, 2018, 11:35	#4
lew Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 16727 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 8,179	Again, spasibo, tovarisch! __________________ Statism: Ideas so great, they're mandatory. "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens

November 19, 2018, 12:25	#6
lew Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 16727 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 8,179	Why? __________________ Statism: Ideas so great, they're mandatory. "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens

November 15, 2018, 21:55	#5
FNfreak Registered FALaholic #: 1081 Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Georgia on my mind.... Posts: 980	Buy a Tantal....

November 26, 2018, 18:46	#7
FNfreak Registered FALaholic #: 1081 Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Georgia on my mind.... Posts: 980	Tantal is one of the only AK designs specifically designed with a safety on the left side. It is comfortable and easy to access although STIFF because you are not only manipulating left side small safety lever but ALSO the large rightside dustcover/safety lever. It's a LOT OF MASS/FRICTION TO MOVE WITH JUST A FLICK OF THE THUMB. There are few accessories that improve the function of an AK...a ambi safety is definitely LOW on the list and 100% NOT an improvement unless adding a tedious and difficult to use procedure is your idea of "improving" something. I am NOT slamming you for wanting the safety improved. Just "improving" such a simple "platform" with TACTICAL features often does NOT give desired results. Some form of decent rail will give you 100x more benefit to the function of an AK than a safety "upgrade" or mag release extension. The AK is a brutally simple machine... trying to turn it into something more only takes YOU and the design BACKWARDS....learn the system and accommodate it. Trying to force an AK to be a AR15 or something else more "tactical" is a mistake. Embrace the simplicity and use it to your advantage. Force it to become something it is not....and it will fail you

November 28, 2018, 20:26	#8
lew Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 16727 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 8,179	The AK is a range toy, nothing more. While I am competent with its handling, I have AR's and an XCR for the tacticool stuff. I'd take my G3 or MAS 49-56's for anything serious long before I reached for the AK. The safety is simply a point of irritation, If I don't do anything about it, no harm, no foul. If I can improve that area of operation cheaply and effectively, excellent. Peace! __________________ Statism: Ideas so great, they're mandatory. "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens

December 02, 2018, 19:41	#9
nopec Registered FALaholic #: 72693 Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Claysville, PA Posts: 401	For what it's worth, I just drilled with mine until I could operate the selector with my support hand.

December 03, 2018, 15:49	#10
lew Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 16727 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 8,179	Reaching under the rifle with the support hand (presumably the left) to activate /deactivate the safety? Hadn't thought of that. __________________ Statism: Ideas so great, they're mandatory. "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens

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