@traviscochran6280 yeah, I missed the ones Atlantic had, kinda glad I did. Just happened to notice my email at the right time from Aim Surplus and was able to snag one.
Very nice. I bought my Century M70AB2 over 10 years ago. Came with battle worn wood hand guard and bake a lite grip. Also came with a certification from Zastava Arms. Parkerized in black. No issues, only the front sight was canted. Shop where I bought it from rectified that. I did buy new tritium tubes for the night sights, which are a nice thing to have.
Brother it's been awhile since I've talked with ya' but I have to say you have such a beautiful collection, I've been following you for awhile now, and seeing all your project rifles, handgun kits and things to be finished. I really enjoy your channel and would love to see your collection if that's something you would ever share, and I totally understand if you didn't. But my friend, just beautiful for what I've seen from ya' I hope you and your family are happy and healthy God Bless you and thanks for sharing your beautiful collection
@V8SKULLS yes sir it has been a while, I was quite bust for a few months traveling for work and didn't get much time for content unfortunately. I appreciate the kind words as well. I'm not quite ready to show off the collection yet, my current house doesn't really have the best setup for it, but we are hoping to build over the next couple of years and fully intend on having a basement with a nice man cave where everything can be displayed properly. It'll just take some time lol, like my projects. My family and I are happy and healthy, and I hope you and yours are as well. God bless.
@The_Casual_Collector I hear you on the house and not ready yet, mine too is more like a storage unit. Had some major set backs, work, Massive auto accident, my youngest daughter going thru a divorce and her and grandkids moving in. It's Life and family. So thankful to be alive, slowly becoming healthy, and many hours or days of physical therapy in my future. But with God's help, I will Good to hear from you, God Bless 🤗
@V8SKULLS oh wow, I'm really sorry to hear that, I was wondering why I hadn't seen you in the comments as much. Hopefully, you're doing much better and on the mend. May God allow you to heal quickly. It is always a pleasure to talk with you. Cherish those kiddos while you can. You may be the only light in their lives in this difficult time. Thanks, and God bless.
@The_Casual_Collector thank you my friend, and yes' God Will always take care of me and make everything better, I thank you for the Caring words and prayers, your ate a good friend God bless you 🙏 Daren'
@tonywang2071 very nice you did get lucky! BTW, be careful with the grenade launching sight, mine is extremely tight, or possibly seized up...I nearly bent it trying to fold it up.
@@The_Casual_Collector a lot of eastern block surplus blanks and ammunition is corrosive and if they they used them instead of commercially made ones (mixed with no cleaning if BFA's were welded on, proper cleaning would be almost impossible) that would cause it 🙁
Mine ( from aim) has some mild by comparison grinding at the rear of the chamber where the rim of the case would be . It's about a fingernail width wide and only on one side. Going to shoot it soon and see what if any problems arise. Thing was royal tiger levels of filthy.
@estright9293 oh yeah, totally agree, the fact that they didn't originally have chrome lined barrels certainly isn't doing them any favors...gonna take a lot of cleaning for sure.
It's sad they originally marketed these as being US military trade-ins. They definitely were never owned by the military. It would be nice to know which contractor owned them, so we'd know where they were used.
@@The_Casual_Collectorwere these built in early 2000? I remember seeing M70s in all black furniture back then. A company called Centerfiresystem was selling them for 450.00 also made by Century.
@@The_Casual_Collector bought two VZ58s from them for 350.00 each. They had the natural wood, no beaver barf. Good shooters. No problems at all. I’m just now seeing you post after 1 month. RUclips notifications not always good.
Probably not going to be an issue, but when checking the headspace on an AK (go, no-go, field, ect) it should all be done with the firing pin and the extractor removed for the most accurate reading.
Nice score brother you cant go wrong with zastava. I wonder where exactly these were used? Either way, looks good! Edit: dang that thing is ICKY! Ah man bad hit. I think once everything is cleaned up and it gets a little love, it'll be just how you want it. It's an AK and one from zastava at that, that thing won't die even if you kill it
@Triangle26 thanks! If you have time, check out the following video on the SKSs I got from Hunter's Lodge, I'm have a little trouble identifying the "Romanian" one. ruclips.net/video/nwCUmai5PYU/видео.html I am also hoping to film the video on my 1951 Tula SKS that I sent you pictures on soon.
@HTownWerewolf thank you sir, I appreciate it, I subbed to yours as well. Your channel has grown pretty quickly over a short period, so kudos on that. I also hope to attend Shot Show one day as well. Looking forward to your video. Hoping to do some test firing with my M70AB2...once I finally get it cleaned up lol.
I'm glad the gun community has been very fast to respond and make videos on this. It helps everyone!
@@DogeMcLovin thanks, and thanks for watching!
They were sold out before I ever heard about them.
Watched Aimsurplus video on RUclips, found it sold out😂
@@stoegerstewie8351 Same here. I also got an email from Atlantic, and they were sold out before I could check it out.
castle arms still had them in stock but they want over 1k each.
@traviscochran6280 yeah, I missed the ones Atlantic had, kinda glad I did. Just happened to notice my email at the right time from Aim Surplus and was able to snag one.
@karlhoffman1985 wow...that's insane...
Looks like some of those that we used at Fort Ord back in the mid 80's to mid 90's. Great video!
@@RobbieGraybeal cool, thank you! We're they built by Century? Thanks for sharing!
Very nice. I bought my Century M70AB2 over 10 years ago. Came with battle worn wood hand guard and bake a lite grip. Also came with a certification from Zastava Arms. Parkerized in black. No issues, only the front sight was canted. Shop where I bought it from rectified that. I did buy new tritium tubes for the night sights, which are a nice thing to have.
@Later2u very cool, thanks for sharing!
Brother it's been awhile since I've talked with ya' but I have to say you have such a beautiful collection, I've been following you for awhile now, and seeing all your project rifles, handgun kits and things to be finished. I really enjoy your channel and would love to see your collection if that's something you would ever share, and I totally understand if you didn't.
But my friend, just beautiful for what I've seen from ya'
I hope you and your family are happy and healthy
God Bless you and thanks for sharing your beautiful collection
@V8SKULLS yes sir it has been a while, I was quite bust for a few months traveling for work and didn't get much time for content unfortunately. I appreciate the kind words as well. I'm not quite ready to show off the collection yet, my current house doesn't really have the best setup for it, but we are hoping to build over the next couple of years and fully intend on having a basement with a nice man cave where everything can be displayed properly. It'll just take some time lol, like my projects. My family and I are happy and healthy, and I hope you and yours are as well. God bless.
@The_Casual_Collector I hear you on the house and not ready yet, mine too is more like a storage unit. Had some major set backs, work, Massive auto accident, my youngest daughter going thru a divorce and her and grandkids moving in. It's Life and family. So thankful to be alive, slowly becoming healthy, and many hours or days of physical therapy in my future. But with God's help, I will
Good to hear from you,
God Bless 🤗
@V8SKULLS oh wow, I'm really sorry to hear that, I was wondering why I hadn't seen you in the comments as much. Hopefully, you're doing much better and on the mend. May God allow you to heal quickly. It is always a pleasure to talk with you. Cherish those kiddos while you can. You may be the only light in their lives in this difficult time. Thanks, and God bless.
@The_Casual_Collector thank you my friend, and yes' God Will always take care of me and make everything better, I thank you for the Caring words and prayers, your ate a good friend
God bless you 🙏
Daren'
Keep rocking and rolling guys 🤙
I got one from BUDS, just delivered to FFL today, they send me a picture of the chamber, looks like no grinding marks, lucky
@tonywang2071 very nice you did get lucky! BTW, be careful with the grenade launching sight, mine is extremely tight, or possibly seized up...I nearly bent it trying to fold it up.
@@The_Casual_Collector thank you, will do, please let us know once you get chance to shoot it
I just ordered Zastava M70 UF Serbian Red and Zasatava ZPAP92 with the quadrail etc. first-ever AK I bought.
@@x-moe6563 Zastava probably the best you can find in the market right now
@@x-moe6563congrats! I got my first Chinese AK with German wire folding stock for 450.00 back in early 2002.
You can use brake cleaner and get it clean on first wipe
@@ぷらぐ interesting, I hadn't thought about that, thanks!
Yep
looks like the blanks had corrosive primers/propellent , good luck with the cleaning 👍
@chrisgosling6083 thanks. Yeah that's possible, who knows.
@@The_Casual_Collector a lot of eastern block surplus blanks and ammunition is corrosive and if they they used them instead of commercially made ones (mixed with no cleaning if BFA's were welded on, proper cleaning would be almost impossible) that would cause it 🙁
@chrisgosling6083 thanks for the insight, yeah, it's a shame they weren't better taken care of.
Mine ( from aim) has some mild by comparison grinding at the rear of the chamber where the rim of the case would be . It's about a fingernail width wide and only on one side. Going to shoot it soon and see what if any problems arise. Thing was royal tiger levels of filthy.
@estright9293 oh yeah, totally agree, the fact that they didn't originally have chrome lined barrels certainly isn't doing them any favors...gonna take a lot of cleaning for sure.
It's sad they originally marketed these as being US military trade-ins. They definitely were never owned by the military. It would be nice to know which contractor owned them, so we'd know where they were used.
@donwyoming1936 good point sir, that would be nice to know...it is certainly an odd AK for sure.
@@The_Casual_Collectorwere these built in early 2000? I remember seeing M70s in all black furniture back then. A company called Centerfiresystem was selling them for 450.00 also made by Century.
@Jason_556 honestly I'm really not sure when these were built, but I have seen those as well.
Had 2 Centerfiresystems “Batman” AKs. Mine were very well assembled….
@@The_Casual_Collector bought two VZ58s from them for 350.00 each. They had the natural wood, no beaver barf. Good shooters. No problems at all. I’m just now seeing you post after 1 month. RUclips notifications not always good.
Did you say that they welded on muzzle device?
@@ericjohnson9080 sort of, I said they welded on blank firing adapters, you can freely screw on and off the slanted muzzle brake that's on it.
Probably not going to be an issue, but when checking the headspace on an AK (go, no-go, field, ect) it should all be done with the firing pin and the extractor removed for the most accurate reading.
@benjaminkeepfer8968 you're right, in this case I figured it'd be okay since my gauges are hollow at the back where a primer would be on a live round.
Nice score brother you cant go wrong with zastava. I wonder where exactly these were used? Either way, looks good!
Edit: dang that thing is ICKY! Ah man bad hit. I think once everything is cleaned up and it gets a little love, it'll be just how you want it. It's an AK and one from zastava at that, that thing won't die even if you kill it
@ticket2space yeah it was pretty nasty lol, got it cleaned up today, plan on doing a post cleanup followup soon.
That's a good score man
@@BloxUndead thanks!
The breach of my barrel was modified and blowing out the brass cases, one round dislodged the top cover.
@mikemcgyver3254 holy crap...where did yours come from?
Im literally fight for one on GB now😂 auction wish me luck
@thetest8777 good luck! If its one on these OPFOR rifles, make sure the chamber hasn't been bubbafied and that it headspace checks ok.
Nice snag!
@Triangle26 thanks! If you have time, check out the following video on the SKSs I got from Hunter's Lodge, I'm have a little trouble identifying the "Romanian" one.
ruclips.net/video/nwCUmai5PYU/видео.html
I am also hoping to film the video on my 1951 Tula SKS that I sent you pictures on soon.
Great video brother, subscribed to the channel, my Yugo M70AB2 from Aim Surplus is on its way. I will also do a review on my channel. 👍
@HTownWerewolf thank you sir, I appreciate it, I subbed to yours as well. Your channel has grown pretty quickly over a short period, so kudos on that. I also hope to attend Shot Show one day as well. Looking forward to your video. Hoping to do some test firing with my M70AB2...once I finally get it cleaned up lol.
@@The_Casual_Collector Thank you for subbing amigo! I picked mine up this morning and it passed the head spacing! Woo hoo so its safe to shoot.
@HTownWerewolf awesome! Glad to hear it!
Century arms plus tapco is a NO NO... CENTURY: POOR QUALITY WORK - TAPCO: WILL PING DA SHII OUT IT. but I'm happy 4 you tho 💯
@surewill5141 lol, totally understand thanks!
I got the email, clicked the link, and they were gone lol
@Predator-yc5up yeah, I was driving, got the notification, pulled over and ordered it. I'm surprised my order actually went through.