Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles M855 Green Tip.....good, bad ugly

I saw some of the m855a1 for sale at $2.00 a round. I guess I will have to suffer through with 90 cents a round 62 grain fusion or .70 cents a round 62 grain gold dot.

Any idea what makes it so much more accurate than an M4? Usually, those Colt CL barrels shoot pretty good, often under 1 MOA for 5 or even 10 rounds of match ammo.

Just for a general throw it out their.
I wish I had kept pics of targets i shot with the C39V2 I had when they 1st came out.
( had ta have one)
Very accurate rifles.
Problem is soft and hard metal issues not playing well with each other.
Rak1 hammer is extremely hard , but overall the trigger is excellent.
It mushrooms the bolt tail and also does the same to the tail on the carrier.
The lugs on the bolt wear and shave edges also.
The green mountain barrel is excellent but ya cant run it hot for long
sessions or else the rifling will erode and literally sections of lands will cease to exist.
By hot I mean 3 to 5 30 rdmag dumps back to back for several shooting sessions when your having fun with it.

I sold mine off fast once these issues started showing from peoples reveiws and postings on other sites before the mad rush to get rid of em started.
Mine had way too premature wear on the bolt tail ,carrier tail and bolt lug wear.
Barrel was fine.
And that was with around 750 rds thru it.
It was time for it to go. Unacceptable......
The market is full of used C39V2,s people are trying to dump now.
However there is a fix if anyone is interested in a new one/ lightly used at reasonable price,dont pay more than 500 used or 625 new.
Most people selling em know exactly why they need to get rid of em.
Inspect the barrel very close and pay attention to the intial area of the leade and 1st couple inches of rifling.
Any grotesque erosion in that area in a used one.
Dont buy it....

Random/ circle 10 has a properly forged heat treated carrier and bolt with telescoping rod and spring kit out their now for a little over 225ish for the C39V2.
Go figure.......
But ya still have that green mountain barrel on the gun.
Just dont go batschyt crazy on back to back mag dumps and the gun will be fine.

Just an FYI for anyone looking at em or contemplating one.

Anyone looking at a upgradeable entry level AKM platform
Look at the wasr 10 with synthetic or laminate stock
Or the PSA GF3.
The wasr 10 ain't the old crooked everything wpn it was prior to 2013ish era gun.
If you can hands on select the best one out of 3 or 4. They are a gun to get with all the proper components that count.
Forged trunnions, forged carrier and bolt ,chromelined hammer forged barrel.
700ish nib
575 625 ish used in vg

PSA Gf3 syn stock for 559 nib is gtg
475 in vg used
Ain't got a chf barrel but is still gtg

My AK is a type 3 milled, ain't got a mount on L/S of receiver like AKM,s.
Been contemplating a rear sight replacement block mount for a optic.
Something like a 2 moa dot and use a crisp setting 12 oclock dead on hold zero (top of the dot) on it for 100m.

Dunno...........

I'm afraid I don't speak AK47 with any fluency, but I did note you had a milled receiver there.

I've shot them here and there along the way. Been tempted to dive in, but it hasn't happened just yet.

If ya ever gotta scratch the itch
New or used
Shoot me a pm.
I will give ya some input.
You would be GTG with a new wasr10 lam or syn or a VG older wasr 10/63 with threaded barrel.

If ya hear someone knows someone who needs cash and has one of those.
Time ta jump on it.
Benjamin's speak to people who need em.

I'm always keeping my ears open and talking to people in pawnshops , gunshops , sporting goods stores, keeping my eye on TN armslist daily.
Ready to buy at any time.
Espically state resident to resident and no 4473 involved.

Only ever shot an AK once. A former cp-worker had one at the range when
my girls were with me, he offered to let them shoot a mag. I shot a couple.
No idea on grouping ability, but claybirds at 100 yards were pretty easy offhand.
I didn't expect to hit any, from what you hear they are like shotguns.

That one wasn't.

I thought any off the shelf AR style was/is the most accurate platform ever made for delivering 5.56 to the enemy. With ant bullet weights and or style. Sarcasm.

I flew over a very large copper mine in southern Ghazni provence in 09 owned by the Chinese

kwg

So, YOU are the guy that gave away our position...

Which position ??

kwg