People ask me why the color of our grips and handguards fades with age and that is a function of the thin liquid oil/wax finish I put on them. When I make a grip or handguard, it comes out a mold and then I need to sand it to get rid of seams. From there I blast it and just about any color winds up turning very white. To bring back the color, a top coat needs to be applied. I used to use Sno Seal, which works fantastic but after several thousand grips, it was too tough on my hands to work so I had to move to a liquid oil/wax finish that dries out over time. I would definitely recommend that you folks use Atsko Sno Seal if you want the color to come out and stay out plus it does a great job on sealing boots 🙂
Also, you can also use any light wax you want such as shoe or boot polish – just be sure it has wax in it. Lot’s of guys use black polish, a color close to what they want or a neutral to just bring out the color of the plastic. Heavy floor wax does not work well – it’s way too thick – don’t use that.
I hope this helps you out.
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The Garand is definitely an iconic rifle.  I was introduced to it by my father, who used it at the end of WWII in the 6th infantry.  My dad is sadly not here any longer and I needed to look up some info on how to care for a M1 Garand and thought I would share some resources with you in case you want to learn more about how to care and feed one.  There are a ton of videos on Youtube and I tend to learn faster if I can see someone do something so after a fun session of watching videos, I cherry picked some to share:
Here’s a nice video on shooting the M1:
This fellow shares some tips he has on how to load an M1:
M1 Garand Tips and Tricks – Quite Informative
This video on field stripping is nice and to the point:
Now for more detail around field stripping, cleaning, lubrication and reassembly, Brownells did a nice video series:
I hope this saves you a bit of time hunting for info on the M1 when it comes to care and feeding of the rifle. Â You’ll find a ton of videos on Youtube on the Garand if you want to learn more.
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Two Rivers Arms is an impressive group – they can really build Yugo rifles (and just about any other AK for that matter). I recently had them build a replica M72 RPK that looked like it came fresh from the factory. I also had them build this rifle and it took some creativity on their part and our’s.
I sent them a Yug0 M72B1 kit from Apex with a Green Mountain barrel, Tapco FCG, Nodak Spud NDS-9 receiver and asked that they turn the barrel down to 16.5″ and not bother with the bipod. I also asked Tim to fabricate a scope rail so I could mount my RS!Regulate rail system there. Thus, they got started and did their assembly and tuning of the rifle. As many of you know, AKs can be pretty gritty until they wear in. The guys at Two Rivers have tuning the AK down pat and when it arrived, everything was silky smooth. By the way, I had them put the original funky wood on it so it looked pretty funny when it arrived and then I went to work.
We’ve been working on a custom M72 RPK handguard set off and on all year. First we had problems with the gas tube and then the lower turned out to have issues twice! Finally, with this generation, we nailed the M72 handguard set and I am very happy. You’ll notice it is very thick as the mold was cast from wood originals and is a very snug fit.
What you see in these photos is the M72B1 rifle from Two Rivers but to it I have added our custom Yugo M72 handguard set, a custom Bulgy Arm-9 grip and one of the Magpul ZHUKOV-S butt stock with the 3/4″ riser as I needed to get my cheek into better position to look through one of my favorite Vortex Crossfire II 1-4x scopes. These are one of the best values in scopes in my opinion.
I also replaced the original Yugo hammer and operating springs with fresh ones from Falcon Arms to give everything a bit more life. To top it off, I added a Precision Armament M4-72 AK-47 Severe-Duty Compensator.
The rifle about 1/2″ groups at 50 yards with Golden Tiger FMJ. I am very happy with the results. The rifle handles great and between the weight and the aggressive Severe-Duty compensator, recoil was very, very mild.
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I’ve seen other animations in the past that didn’t get into as much detail as this one. Â In this video you get a pretty good demo of how the various parts work during the firing and automated loading of the AK-47 but they got the trigger wrong, etc. Â This one shows the disconnector and trigger hook operating in the right manner for example. Â I’m posting it because I think it always helps to understand what is going on inside a firearm for when you want to tune it, figure out what might be going wrong, and so forth.
