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- Stephen’s M70 – Check Out the Wood!! October 14, 2015You have to love the traditional lines of a Zastava M70B1. Stephen did something neat with his – notice the M76 buttstock and great looking wood. I think it’s fantastic. We’re honored he picked one of our M70 grips to go on his rifle! If you are interested, our grip is online at: http://shop.roninsgrips.com/Yugoslavian-M70-M72-M85-M92-Grip-Yugo-M70-M72-M92.htm
- Check out Frank’s New Hog Rifle – A Vepr With Our Stock Set October 13, 2015Check out Frank’s New Hog Rifle – A slant back Vepr With Our Stock Set. What Frank did that I think is really neat is that he machined the slots into our Vepr handguard. The urethane pastic we use is glass fiber reinforced and acts like a hardwood – you can easily route or mill ...
- How to Install Our C39 Micro Handguard on a Micro Draco! May 31, 2015Hello folks! A friend did a great quick youtube video to show people the few quick modifications needed to fit our C39 Micro handguard onto a Draco Micro. I think he did a great job and sure appreciate his taking the time to make the video and share it with us! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIPDtOQI7GA Click here to open a ...
- Matt’s Wicked Vepr – This Rifle Is Stunning!! May 2, 2015Man, I like what Matt did here. The color, the PRS stock, handguard and our second generation Molot grip come together to really make quite an impressive rifle and to top it off, he has a Steiner scope!! Wow!
- How To Install Ronin’s Grips’ Vepr Furniture Set April 20, 2015Ronin’s Grips Vepr Furniture Installation Notes Version 1.7 1/27/2014 First and foremost, please ensure your rifle is unloaded and a round is not in the chamber. Please be safe! In general, the urethane plastic we use for the buttstock and handguard will behave like hardwood when it is being cut. Thus, if you choose to install something, follow ...
- Eugene’s 5.45 Vepr With Our Grip and Handguard April 9, 2015Eugene built this awesome looking 5.45×39 Vepr with a 20.5″ barrel. It has our second generation Molot grip and Vepr handguard. The rifle also sports a BeloMo PO3.5x21P optic and an Ace ARFX-E via a DPMS extender and Canis Design slant cut adapter. End results: One wicked looking rifle!!
- Chris Likes His Bulged M70 Handguards April 7, 2015Got my handguards today! Good god, they are fantastic. Just wanted to share these pics, I’m going to try to get you better pics, with mags & ammos & such, this weekend. I’ve always been a wood furniture guy on all of my guns, even my 1911s have wood grips, but your handguards are fantastic. ...
- Comparison Photos of Yugo M70 vs M72 Lower Handguards January 21, 2015Folks ask me if the Yugo M70 and M72 use the same handguards – in short, they do not. The upper gas tube cover is the same across all models of Yugos I have seen but the lower handguard on the M72 is very short and rectangular. This is especially true when it is next ...
- Check out Len’s Yugo M85 With Our Quick Takedown Pin! January 20, 2015Len’s Yugo M85 is looking pretty sweet! Here’s what he has to say about his weapon: Tungsten gray is the cerkote, Sight is a see all {from tandemkross}, key mod rail ,covers, and flash hider {Midwest Industries}, Sling adapter {RFT}, Inforce light, THE Pin Ronin’s grips, dust cover rail Storm Werkz. AR mag adapter PAP 85, ...
- Very Good AR Lower Assembly Guide Web Pages – Not videos December 25, 2014So in my last blog post, I gave you a number of Youtube videos you can watch to learn how to assemble an AR lower. In this post, I’ll give you some web pages where you can visit them and read step by step instructions with photos. This way, you can print you the pages ...
- Very Good AR Lower Receiver Assembly Videos on Youtube December 24, 2014Have you ever wondered how to assemble an AR lower receiver and were curious what free resources are available? I spent some time on Youtube and collected a list of videos that show the viewer how to assemble a lower receiver for an AR-type rifle. I would recommend watching several as each presenter’s methods has ...
- Cool M92 NPAP Pistol with Our Quick Takedown Pin December 23, 2014A customer sent in these cool photos of his M92 with our quick takedown pin so he can remove the dust cover quickly and easily. He reports he started with a basic Yugo NPAP M92 and then he finish it with cerakote OD green, a Magpul grip, Midwest rail, sling mount RFT, it’s shown with ...
- Joseph’s Sweet M77 With Our Bulgy Grip December 21, 2014Joseph’s Zastava M77 looks sweet! I really like how it turned out!!
- Custom Himalayan Imports Uddha Sword – 24″ Overall with a 16.5″ Blade by Bura December 20, 2014I bought a beat up HI Uddha sword about a year back where the handle was toast. The cool part was that the blade was made by Bura, who was one of the best kamis in Nepal. He had to retire due to health problems and his blades are collector’s items now. At any rate, ...
- Kevin’s badass Veprs with our Vepr handguards and second generation Molot grips December 20, 2014Kevin’s badass Veprs with our Vepr handguards and second generation Molot grips! The 2nd Generation Molot Grips are in our store at: http://shop.roninsgrips.com/Russian-Molot-Second-Generation-RussianMolot2ndGen.htm The Vepr handguards are in our store at: http://shop.roninsgrips.com/Vepr-Furniture_c16.htm
- The latest about the Vepr and Saiga import bans and the Kalashnikov Group Rebranding December 14, 2014As you may know, in July 2014 the owner, Rostec, of the Baikal, Saiga and Vepr brands was put on the US sanctions list to punish Russia. That apparently put a halt to about half of a 200,000 rifle deal being halted that they are now trying to find other buyers for and is hurting ...
- ATF Opinion Letter on AR Pistols – Some Key Considerations December 14, 2014In this ATF letter, the author asked the ATF’s opinion on a number of great AR pistol related questions. I am paraphrasing a few points I found important to help folks doing full text searches for opinions: 1) An AR lower receiver is neither pistol nor rifle until it is built the first time. If you ...
- Jeff’s Yugo M70 Underfolder with our Bulged Handguard Set December 6, 2014This is Jeff’s Yugo M70 underfolder with our bulged Yugo M70 handguard set: The handguard is based on a Zastava design that you will see on some of their import models. Our design has a reinforced bottom and uses an extra thick gas tube cover based on a wood M70 handguard set. The gas tube cover ...
- This is so cool – USAF Band does a flashmob at the Smithsonian December 6, 2014Every once in a while I see a cool music video and this is one of them – the USAF band does Jesu, the Joy of Man’s Desiring, at the Smithsonian air and space museum. I hope this gets everyone in the holiday spirit. I will be humming it in the shop today for sure!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKE8pyfcZc
- Scott Igert’s Custom Yugo M92 PAP with Dark Russian Plum Furniture December 5, 2014Scott Igert owns Modern Antique Firearms in Benton Harbor, MI, and is the force behind the Michigan Gun Exchange website. He replaced the furniture on the below Yugo M92 PAP: The grip is our ARM9 (which is my favorite grip by the way and use it on my own rifles) and he used a Yugo M92 ...