I bought one from classic a few months ago, came with a pretty bad crack in the stock.
I spread the crack with toothpicks and flushed the whole stock with boiling water a few times to melt the cosmoline out.
Used some superglue for the crack and sanded down the beat to hell stock and stained and...
I saw this rifle at franklins the other day, good looking rifle that I would have bought if it were 7.62x39.
I just had hesitations due to being 223and my lack of knowledge about this variant.
Let us know how it turns out
Oh yeah it was also the only ak in the store, most of the racks were...