Global Machine and Tool was never an importer of AK’s…..They were/are a small machine shop in Texas that produced AK receivers.
Your AK is either a home built using a dimilled Yugo kit, or a Century Arms build doing the same. There is no real way to determine which by just looking at the rifle as Century didn’t stamp the receiver with their company info because, wait for it……it was never an import.
The real question in determining the value is the barrel source. Is it a OEM Yugo barrel that came with the kit or is it a “new” barrel? OEM Yugo barrels were at best dark bore and frosted (due to firing Yugo corrosive ammo in a bore not chrome lined) or dark bore and pitted (due to the same). The value form most valuable to least is
(1.) frosted
(2.) mildly pitted
(3.) new replacement US barrel
(4.) pitted.
Yugo kit builds with OEM Yugo barrels in good shape, like all things that are no longer allowed to be imported, have become collectible to some.
Your AK is either a home built using a dimilled Yugo kit, or a Century Arms build doing the same. There is no real way to determine which by just looking at the rifle as Century didn’t stamp the receiver with their company info because, wait for it……it was never an import.
The real question in determining the value is the barrel source. Is it a OEM Yugo barrel that came with the kit or is it a “new” barrel? OEM Yugo barrels were at best dark bore and frosted (due to firing Yugo corrosive ammo in a bore not chrome lined) or dark bore and pitted (due to the same). The value form most valuable to least is
(1.) frosted
(2.) mildly pitted
(3.) new replacement US barrel
(4.) pitted.
Yugo kit builds with OEM Yugo barrels in good shape, like all things that are no longer allowed to be imported, have become collectible to some.