Armory USA, Houston TX underfolder

woodstock31 · October 09, 2019, 21:38

Have a chance to look at a Polish Circle 11 underfolder on an Armory USA reciever. Anyone have experience or opinions on these? Supposedly it is in excellent shape although it has plastic hand guards. Worth $700? Seems a little high but I'm not sure. Thanks!

2barearms · October 09, 2019, 22:07

So they’ve been gone for at least 10 years or more. They built a lot of AKs and they sold thousands of receivers. Andy Varrin was a good friend of mine and had training by Mr Kalashnikov himself.....700.00 sounds like a decent price. Their newer receivers were 1.6 mm thick. Much stronger. I would look closely at the rivets and the overall workmanship. If they assembled it, it should be exceptionally well built and would have nicely set rivets etc.

woodstock31 · October 09, 2019, 22:30

Thanks for the response!

Is it easy to tell how thick the reciever walls are by just looking at it? I hope to have pics this week.

2barearms · October 10, 2019, 20:45

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Originally Posted by woodstock31

Thanks for the response!

Is it easy to tell how thick the reciever walls are by just looking at it? I hope to have pics this week.

Just measure the thickness of the top bend.....

ftierson · October 11, 2019, 20:53

Having built several rifles on AUSA receivers (which were generally decent receivers), a couple of comments...

First, at one point in time, they had problems with the twisting (front to back) of their receivers (presumably during heat-treat)...

There were some problems with rusting/pitting at one point in time due to their heat-treat bath process...

I never liked their mag dimples on the receiver (too large and too shallow)...

Having said all that, they generally built up into decent rifles (although I can't speak to the riveting/build quality of others).

Forrest

October 09, 2019, 21:38	#1
woodstock31 Registered FALaholic #: 67795 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 133	Armory USA, Houston TX underfolder Have a chance to look at a Polish Circle 11 underfolder on an Armory USA reciever. Anyone have experience or opinions on these? Supposedly it is in excellent shape although it has plastic hand guards. Worth $700? Seems a little high but I'm not sure. Thanks!

October 09, 2019, 22:07	#2
2barearms Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 13866 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Somewhere in Amerika Posts: 15,751	So they’ve been gone for at least 10 years or more. They built a lot of AKs and they sold thousands of receivers. Andy Varrin was a good friend of mine and had training by Mr Kalashnikov himself.....700.00 sounds like a decent price. Their newer receivers were 1.6 mm thick. Much stronger. I would look closely at the rivets and the overall workmanship. If they assembled it, it should be exceptionally well built and would have nicely set rivets etc. __________________ "Owning a Firearm doesn't make you Armed any more than owning a Guitar makes you a Musician" Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker

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October 09, 2019, 22:30	#3
woodstock31 Registered FALaholic #: 67795 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 133	Thanks for the response! Is it easy to tell how thick the reciever walls are by just looking at it? I hope to have pics this week.

October 11, 2019, 20:53	#5
ftierson Registered FALaholic #: 13827 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 16,431	Having built several rifles on AUSA receivers (which were generally decent receivers), a couple of comments... First, at one point in time, they had problems with the twisting (front to back) of their receivers (presumably during heat-treat)... There were some problems with rusting/pitting at one point in time due to their heat-treat bath process... I never liked their mag dimples on the receiver (too large and too shallow)... Having said all that, they generally built up into decent rifles (although I can't speak to the riveting/build quality of others). Forrest