Thanks. Turns out it was a SB TF1913 brace, not a PSA “in house” brace. All good now, but if I see one on the secondary market, I’ll be sure to give you a heads-up! 
Ive heard it said “You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.” Might be one of those situations
AK extractors absolutely chew apart brass casings on the regular. It’s pretty normal.
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It’s fairly normal and not really anything to be concerned with. I squirt mine down with Ballistol after range day and flush it out. 10K+ rounds through mine to date and still chugging.
Had same thing with mine except it didn’t shoot fine had numerous stove pipes emailed psa and they are sending me a new bolt waiting on it now. I had plenty of brass shavings in my akv though. Hopefully that doesn’t become a problem guess it doesn’t matter if it did. Im sure they will make it right.
I’m dealing with this right now too actually. It’s one of two issues my AK-V. Doesn’t seem too normal to me. I’ve had a lot of AK’s.
It’s broken then.. I sent mine in for warranty and it turns out the whole bolt and carrier was junk. The carrier was coming loose in the middle and the two halves were pivoting at the pin . There’s nothing you can do on your own. Mine eventually quit firing all together and then I sent it in. I should have sent it back on day one in hindsight but I thought it had to be broken in. It turns out it was just broken from the start.
Just send yours in because your bolt carrier is probably out of tolerance or something.
The nice thing is they took care of the whole process for me and paid for shipping label. All I had to do was drop it off at the UPS store and it took about a month before I got it back again. Since then none of this stuff happened and I’ve shot a lot of rounds through it already. No jambs either.
They didn’t put the handguard back on right so it’s a little bit wiggly and I will try to tighten it myself.
It’s a cool gun but in my opinion it’s grossly overpriced for its build quality and quality control. I would rather have some other AK 9mm variation for the $1, 100 they ask now.
In addition to my bolt carrier being junk, the front sight post was installed crooked from the factory and was useless, the safety lever was very loose, and there was apparently a problem with the trigger. Mind you this thing had only 1,000 rounds through it. They fixed everything fortunately.
Also the receiver metal rusts very easily just sitting in a case so you have to constantly clean all the surfaces and try to keep them treated with oil. That’s what I mean about build quality and quality control.
The only redeeming quality is the lifetime warranty and how good the first claim went, except for the handguard. I’m just afraid that this will be a regular thing every 1,000 rounds or so. Don’t rely on a akv for self-defense.
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I have had 0 issues out of my Ak-v over thousands of rounds. Most of that was done bump firing it with the ALG trigger.
You probably got a good one off the assembly line. The tolerances were all correct or by stacking poor tolerances the right way canceled them all out LMAO.
Apparently QC doesn’t seem to exist at PSA. I think they perfected ARs to an extent but trying anything else they make is a gamble, especially these unique guns they seem to create like the ARV or krink etc. I’m not complaining, but give them props for trying so long as they warranty everything and cover shipping.
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So one gun of yours had an issue (which was fully taken care of,) so it’s reasonable to assume off that singular case that pretty much everything else is junk. Got it.
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Well the fan boys (and likely employees based on the phrasing I’ve seen some of these guys use and how it lines up EXACTLY with what the warranty dept has written me) are coming out.
Appreciate the follow up. I’ll reference your issue when I follow up with the warranty dept on my issues. Unfortunately this isn’t the only issue I’m having with this firearm, and they are flat out denying the first issue is an issue at all which is quite counter to the stellar customer service and warranty I’ve heard they have.
Not necessarily.. I like my akv but I’m thinking it’s one of those guns that’s going to need constant upkeep and will likely need to go back again for a warranty claim after so many rounds.
And based off of others’ experiences a lot of people are having similar issues with akv and other models. In my case it wasn’t just one problem. It was a list of things, all unrelated, the biggest of which was the bad bolt carrier. And I say poor quality control because you could tell by looking at mine that the front side post was off center by a lot which means they didn’t even look at it before putting it in the box.
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This is a budget brand anyway so I didn’t have high expectations.. however the prices on akv now are ridiculous and much higher than what I paid. I would not recommend buying one of these anymore at this price. For that much money you could get a nice MP5 clone or 2 AR 9s for that matter. I considered selling mine actually and buying a cz scorpion since I already have a ton of these mags.
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Good luck man. All I can say is it shouldn’t be tearing up the brass and making a mess inside or jamming or have any play in the bolt carrier. Take that bolt carrier out and shake it and feel if there’s anything flexing. The counter weight on mine was wobbling about the pivot pin and about to fall off. The new one they put it is rock solid for now.
Again, your issues were taken care of. The rest of your post is assumptions. There’s no reason to think you should just set a nice round number of 1,000 rounds and keep saying your gun is going to fail at that point.
And lastly, again, making a sweeping generalization about an entire brand and several different lines of said brand because of an isolated anecdotal experience (which wasn’t even a terrible one, seeing as, for the third time, you were taken care of) is pretty wild, but hey, you do you man.
If you think you’ll be immune to potentially running into issues with other AR-V’s or a Scorpion, then keep your fingers crossed.
I guess I just don’t get the mentality behind the complaints. You say you aren’t complaining, but you are…about things you assume will go wrong and a price you don’t like.
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I’ve bought a lot of their AR stuff and it’s all been really good so far. No functional issues at least. I think AR-15s are their bread and butter and most popular so they probs do better with those.
Again as a side note about the QC, I’ve purchased blem and also non-blem items (uppers and lowers) and it seems the NON blem items come with more scratches and dings than the advertised blem stuff. I don’t understand how that happens. I’ve had to touch up their non blem stuff with aluminum black for some reason right out of the box, on nearly everything too. No functional issues with those but I guess the moral of the story is you get blem no matter what LMAO.
I wonder, do they just throw all the completed receivers and rails and such into a group pile when they’re done?
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So the AR stuff is good because you personally haven’t had an issue.
But the entirety of the rest of the lines aren’t good because you did. Once. And it was taken care of.
Sure. That’s a completely reasonable stance to take and keep repeating over and over.
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The point is mine isn’t the only one. Obviously the other guy is having a related problem and there are many, many other issues talked about right here on this forum which is the purpose for it existing, so we can help each other resolve them.
You can browse all the forum topics yourself for any model and see what people are reporting. Only PSA really knows what the actual statistics for failures are on akvs. Maybe it’s not a ton but it’s something to be aware of for sure.
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The moderators here are not paid employees. Thr majority of paid employees on here will have ‘psa’ in their username.
I would also be cautious of throwing around names for folks. This isnt your ordinary forum. We will try to help you where we can, but only if you are respectful.
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You are generalizing that ALL AK-Vs are bad which isnt true. The AK-V at the gathering last year went about 3000 rds over 2 days. The company at the gathering that had FRTs had an AK-V that was also heavily used.
You complain about yours (issue fixed) and the bolt. That may not have even been needed and they replaced it anyway. CS helped you out, but here you are complaining about all their QC and all their guns.
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