Chapter 107: Want to Make Money? Hit a Safe House
Mountain Eagle spoke while pulling out an AK74 equipped with a modernized Zenit kit from his large bag...
In the AK modification community, the Zenit kit is probably the most famous.
It involves replacing the upper receiver and handguard to circumvent some issues with the AK, although it makes the gun slightly heavier, but compared to the gains in appearance and performance, that bit of extra weight is nothing to worry about.
Most of the mechanisms in the AK series rifles are concentrated in the lower receiver. Originally, to save costs and reduce weight, the upper receivers of AK series rifles were designed to be very thin and light...
For most people, the most prominent issue with this design is the inability to mount accessories.
Not only because there are no Picatinny rails on the upper receiver, but the most important reason is the lack of strength in the upper receiver, which vibrates terribly when shooting. Even if there were rails, installing a scope would still be useless.
Then everyone would notice that the old AKs in most movies don’t use scopes, sniper rifles like the SVD and VSS have scopes mounted on the side.
That disgusting side-mounting of scopes on AK series, not only is it unattractive, but the disassembly and assembly are also particularly troublesome.
The AK74 in Mountain Eagle’s hands, which has been modernized and coated in pure black, had its upper receiver, handguard, and stock modified in the style of a Zenit kit, and it was equipped with a red dot scope...
After handling it, Mountain Eagle found the gun slightly overweight, but for him, it felt excellent.
Seeing that Mountain Eagle seemed to like it, Blood Fox took out several obviously custom-made polymer magazines and a few boxes of ammunition from his bag and handed them to Mountain Eagle, saying, "The VSS you like is quite difficult to get, and Mi Lu couldn’t even find the same accessory manufacturer you use...