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huntinkillin:
Got into a huge debate with my buddy who just recently purchased a Century RAS47. I have a new production WASR in the mail right now and he said that for the money the RAS was better. After a heated debate of why cast parts are not milspec he said that all WASRs that come in the country are not even milspec anyway because they filed military inspection in Romanian.

I knew that the old WASR 10/63 were rejected military rifles but I still got one and it has served me well for years. I knew that just because something failed inspection did not mean that it was still not built to military spec. But that did get met thinking - are the new WASR rifles Romanian rejects or are they fit for service? I would be a bit concerned if they had so many rejects from new production rifles to fill an entire market in the US with enough supply.

Bottoz:
Ask him what military uses the RAS47.

And for the money... uh... they're priced about the same. For the same, with the WASR, you're getting CL CHF barrel. For the money, the Mighty WASR always wins.

Hodgie:
Cast parts are used in milspec AR15's there is an entire thread going on over on another site right now and a factory in Poland has confirmed it. That being said Cugar has been making military grade rifles for decades VS Century's whole 2 years in the AK game. The 1st GWB RAS has received fitment issues which Century confirmed to be true. The 2nd GWB resolved those however users have been reporting abnormally fast wear on key parts like the bolt, hammer, as well as a reported and proven fracked from trunion within the 1st 300 rounds.

Like it or not Century is new to the AK production game and they are going to have a lot of growing pains and those pains are going to be felt buy the buyers of their AK's. What they did do right was make sure to flood all of the most popular YouTube channels with their rifles and ammo too ensure we hear about them 500 times a week.

Would I buy one? Nope I would not until they are proven reliable for thousands and thousands of rounds.

korkster:
I'll vote Wasr as well. I bought one recently and it's got tight tolerances. Built very well in my opinion, more so than they used to be. Plus theyre built overseas, which gives it a cool factor over the RAS47. Why on earth would anyone want an American built AK? 8)

huntinkillin:
I'm fully set on the WASR - but are the new ones rejected military rifles (doesn't really matter to me but I just wanted to check his sources).

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