More info next week.
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Pretty cool addition.. at some point I’m going to need all these moss green guns.
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So will we ever see those swell neck rivets on the other rifles?
Maybe on new production, but they won’t redo rifles already built. Swell neck rivets are not a necessity. It may be on the Sabre line because they are built on kits and not fully in house
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I mean they didnt do swell necks on their russian, polish, or Romanian kits before. Its not like it would be rocket science for them to incorporate swell necks into their other guns. I also find it a little funny that their premium line for the AKs are going to be WASR kits.
Non-value-added processes are the first to go when the goal is to spread quality freedom as far and as wide as possible.
Here we go again with the Reddit crowd, the rivet crying, and the WASR humping.
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Happy PSA Cake Day.
Ah, Ya Beat me to it! 
Happy Cakeday, BTW!
Not all kits are the same…and you have 922 to worry about.
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‘Quality’
Look if I am paying 1100 for a rifle I should expect the minimum, which is properly installing the rivets.
Simple solution for you, then. Don’t buy it.
And while you’re at it, stop parroting things you’ve heard that you vastly overestimate the importance of.
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Except the part where literally every other major AK variant uses these rivets, and only were briefly not used on AKMs for like ~2 years. This was something people learned as the stamped AK was going through its teething issues. Even the north koreans use swells.
I would buy a PSAK if the correct rivets were used, however I am down 2 for 2 PSAKs (one GF3, one premium 103) due to trunnion deformation and shearing from excess stress. Both within 1000 rounds. The swell necks allow for a much wider tolerance of metallurgical hardness on the trunnion’s locking surfaces by keeping the flexing to a minimum during the percussive force of firing.
Don’t assume people who criticize your product don’t know what they’re talking about. If they start putting swell necks in these PSAKs they’ll be on par with some of the decent import guns that used to come in from Hungary and Egypt.
@Guhguh before you get too deep in it, you’re going the right way for a Smak’t Bottom.
Just a friendly suggestion, throttle back.
Critiquing is not a problem: pedantic, blind persistence openly slandering the company’s products on its own forum is gonna get a Gadfly squished.
I don’t buy your claim of issues on two separate guns, nor do I think you’re doing anything but regurgitating info you’ve read elsewhere and chosen to believe.
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Its not slander, its just engineering that different rivets are good for different things. Flats are good for consistent tension like aircraft, skyscrapers, etc. However for percussive force swell necks tend to perform to higher standards. Think oilfields, firearms, blast chambers, etc.
Chose to believe what you want. I had to return my GF3 3 times, including for a trunnion swap, back in 2021. Traded it for a CZ2075 at a pawn shop after the third. The 1903 premium I got later on, and when it started showing signs of aggressive trunnion wear I decided I wasnt going to bother and traded it for a CETME-L.
You contacted PSA for Warranty? What did they tell you?
You have pictures, surely. I would be extremely interested in seeing them.
I’m genuinely shocked you’re telling us you don’t have the two weapons you claim to have owned and we’re so problematic with the exact same issue. That’s very convenient.
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