Yugoslavian Battle field pick-up

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A buddy of mine from another sight sold me his Yugoslavian Battle field pick-up AK47.
The carvings are from the soldier that it was issued to during there civil war..

These Battle field pick Yugo’s are hard to come by and as a collector,,, well,,, I’m excided…



I’ll post more pic’s when its in my greedy little hands

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I gave the first AKM I built to my son, I then gave the 2nd one I built to my future son-in-law.

But this Yugo AK47 is Mine, mine all mine.

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I still need to do a few things to her like find the original yugo pistol grip then swap out the gas piston for the US parts count. I also need to find a rear sling swivel and cleaning rod. I also want to replace the screws with rivets then rough up the receiver’s finish for that battle field pick-up look. It’s also missing a big hunk of the front lower hand guard. I was thinking of replacing it but for “the look” I might just keep it on and leave it as is.

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I replaced most of the screws with rivets and took some steel wool to the receiver to give it that “Battlefield pick-up” look.


Disassembly



The receiver and trigger guard with cap screws and u-drives.


I removed the old screws.


Then used rivets to put it all back together.


I replaced all but two cap screws and two u-drives. Both were fastened on the forward trunnion real tight and I saw no reason to press out the barrel pin and barrel to replace these. (Whew I wasn’t looking forward to that) Fat46 did an excellent job with those.

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After everything was riveted I took some steel wool to the finish to give it that “used” look.



Here it is, I still need a few small parts but she’s ready shoot. I going to leave the forward lower hand guard as is, it just adds to that “battlefield pick-up look”

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Dragana