One of my range buddies brought out an oddball rifle to the range the other day: his pump-action AK-47. You heard that right, pump-action. This is a Romanian PAR-1, chambered in 7.62×39. It was developed in the 90’s as a result Clinton’s Administration’s Assault Weapons Ban.
As odd as it looked and seemed in concept, it functioned as you’d expect. It fed from a 10rnd CA plugged 30rnd magazine. Everything else on the rifle was standard, including the AK’s notoriously thin leaf iron sights. I was able to get all of my shots on paper at 100yrds without any difficulty.
I can’t say that I know how to feel about this rifle. On the one hand it’s cool that somebody built a unique rifle. But putting a pump action on an AK only makes sense in a post-apocalyptic Fallout setting.
