Ian's Customs: The Terrible Krinkov
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Published 2021-08-03
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Since you all seemed to enjoy the first installment in the series, today we have another of Ian's Customs...
This is my "Krinkov" - not a proper name for a short-barreled factory AK (the AKS-74U, specifically), but a word that I think fits this gun just fine. It is a registered SBR that I put together myself about 10 years ago using a Nodak Spud receiver, Romanian "G" kit, cheap-o Chinese airgun stock, and a new set of front end parts. It has a barrel just 9.5 inches long, poorly set rivets, a kludged rear trunnion, and requires one of the recoil buffer plugs to keep the bolt carrier from jumping off its tracks. But it's my first NFA item, and for all its awfulness I really like it.
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All Comments (21)
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“Hey, why’s everybody sending me the link to Ian’s new vi-….OH LAWD”
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There is a joke in Romania: a guy was working at a bicycle factory and was stealing parts to make his son a bicycle. He tried to assemble the parts at home but no mater how much he tried, he was always ending up with an AK.
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AR guys: "Eww, is that a scratch on your AR?" AK guys: "that thing is hideous and I LOVE it!"
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Ian: don't show Brandon Herrera Everyone: showing Brandon Herrera
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"No one show Brandon Herrera this" Ian said. Briefly forgetting how the internet works. "Why do I have 10 thousand emails?" Brandon Herrera asked as he was reminded as to how the internet works.
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“No one show Brandon Herrera this” Now Ian has said it the AK man will definitely react to this.
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That is some crazy "I've got a bucket of spare parts and a welder" post-apocalyptic engineering and I kind of like it.
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10:30 "...in this case, it has sort of an unanticipated function of keeping the bolt carrier from falling out of the gun " had me in tears
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"it's nine inches, it might look shorter" I swear no one believes anyone that says this.
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Someone needs to make this children’s book: “My horrible, horrible, adorable little Krinkov.” It’ll teach valuable lessons like how you can appreciate and love something even though it isn’t the best or the newest just because you made it and it is yours.
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"In a predominance of caution, I decided to make this 922R compliant." You got a new dog?
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this is everything i love about custom gun builds "there was no reason to do this. this has no application. this is barely cobbled together. but it's funny."
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Such affection in his voice when he says, "My horrible, horrible, adorable little Krinkov!"
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I can't believe Ian would take an AK from their mother when they still aren't fully grown. And all this time I thought he respected firearms.
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I can't get over the fact that the stock uses a knife handle as a cheek rest.
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This brings to mind a gun I encountered some years ago. A previous owner had attempted to make a 'scout' rifle,...out of a .30-06-chambered '98K. It had a barrel of about 16" and the stock was shortened and pared down a bit, as well. It weighed about 5-6 pounds and when you fired it a fireball the size of a pumpkin popped out of the barrel, followed by leaves and twigs 10-15 feet downrange dancing in the muzzle blast. I fired it exactly once.
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A hundred or more years from now, this gun will pass through an auction house and completely baffle gun experts from around the world.
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This is the AK equivalent of unearthing a picture of Ian in parachute pants, a lime-green mesh T-shirt, and a mohawk.
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The airgun is so forgotten that Ian had forgotten it.
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A waiter in black-tie livery approaches the range table: “If the gentleman should like to place an optic mount on the gentleman’s rifle, may I suggest the “Elysium holo-sight”? It pairs nicely with self-riveted receivers and allows the aesthetic to fully bloom.”
