my bfpu yugo ak

finally got some pics of my yugo!most of the jacked parts where rejects that we couldn't use at my old job. :cool: i tried to find the ugliest stuff i could.big thanks to my buddy (and member here) comike27,as i traded some stuff for a barrel,receiver and putting it together.i still have to test run it next weekend but it headspaces perfect and the barrel is pretty decent.now to the pics!a few wideshots-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609007.jpg
now for the close up,mr deville!!!
-lower hg-i haven't gotten it all figured out yet but the second line means"the war is passing" and the third is "government falling"the bottom has a name.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609032.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609033.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609035.jpg
-upper hg has a metal le fluer nailed to it
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609034.jpg
-front trunnion is 1982
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609016.jpg
-pitted to hell cleaning rod
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609017.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609018.jpg
-gas block with what appears to be a bullet or shrapnel strike
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609020.jpg
-wierd pitting on the selector
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609021.jpg
-more pitting in the trigger guard and mag release
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609025.jpg
-now for the fun stuff on the stock
left side by button(sling swivel is pitted too!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609027.jpg
dent by the above pic
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609036.jpg
right arm-this pic isn't that good,but it looks like a small piece of shrapnel pierced the bottom of arm and dented inside the top part
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609030.jpg
more damage on the right arm,back by the butt
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/72609031.jpg

i love the look and balsnce of this rifle.goes pretty good with my kyber end couple romy's.i know that is a romy sling,but i havn't located a correct yugo.i hate not having a sling on my ak!how do ya'll think it came out?

i think it fared better than the previous owner!
look at all 'em holes!!!!

great lookin build

Nice battle scars on that one and the carving and the fleur.
The finish scould use a bit more distress in the barrel and other component areas and even out the receiver distress work a bit. Nice start.

i'll just leave it.i didn't want to make it look polished.theflash makes the finish look wierd.its more even looking in person.i want to take pics outside but i just moved and don't know all my neighbors yet.don't want some obamanist calling the cops because i have an evil assault rifle.

damn look at the pitting on that cleaning rod!

I doubt that guy made it.

That is the worst corroded cleaning rod I've ever seen.

Rifle looks great!

took this badboy to the range this past sunday.its a public range and definatly got the "omg!that big tattoo'd guy has an ak47" looks.f them!this shot great with like 6 different kinds of ammo.it was shooting WAAAY low.i think it was because of the sks sight.i just put the front sight as low as it would go and it was perfect.windage needed no adjustment.i was getting consistent head shots on my zombie target @ 50 yards with ease.this is a keeper!only hiccup was the battle damage near the button cut my knuckle when i shot.i had to dremel a tiny bit off of it.

I had a friend translate that carving and here's what he came up with after some googling:

This is a verse from a popular song called "Pit i to je amerika" -
or in English "Pete , and that is America" by Azra, popular YU rock bandfrom 80's.

In translation means Some are destroying, and some are building, wars are almost over, governments are falling... Interesting that someone wrote this on a gun. This band was mostlypeace and love oriented ;)

Did you ever see "Behind Enemy Lines" when Owen Wilson was in the minefield and the Slav dude hits the trip wire and blows up? This is the AK that dude had that ended up in a U shape. With a new reciever of course.

this is a keeper!only hiccup was the battle damage near the button cut my knuckle when i shot.i had to dremel a tiny bit off of it.


AHHH the old war rifle roars back to life and is still wanting a little blood......HMM dremel may have been a bad idea,now what will it require next time out :sidegrin_

If my vision proves correct (who knows), it looks like high-speed impact from down below. I was thinking landmine, grenade, or maybe a mortar round. Whatever the culprit, I don't think the previous owner (owners) lived to tell the tale.

Stuff like that adds serious character to a rifle!!! I love the aluminum crest on the upper handguard. Whoever the owner was, he was creative!

I would love to get a battlefield pick-up rifle like that one day, besides, I love Yugos anyway.

If it drew blood it may be haunted by a pissed off, shrapnel laden spirit!
The chuckie of AK's. If you put it in the closet before you go to bed and it is on your night stand when you wake up you might want to hose her down with holly water!:laugh_sma

Way cool! I like it!

got a pic of the target.took me a bit to get it right,but its good now.this was out at the 50 yard mark.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/cborman/zombie.jpg

Did you ever see "Behind Enemy Lines" when Owen Wilson was in the minefield and the Slav dude hits the trip wire and blows up? This is the AK that dude had that ended up in a U shape. With a new reciever of course.


Actually,I think if you look closer,its a Czech VZ58

Just thought you`d like to know that the "Le Fluer" on the upper is a symbol from or representing the Serbian Orthodox church. So you know which side off the Yugo civil war it came from .

Just thought you`d like to know that the "Le Fluer" on the upper is a symbol from or representing the Serbian Orthodox church. So you know which side off the Yugo civil war it came from .

I'm afraid that's incorrect, my friend. The Fleur-De-Lis in a recent Balkan context as seen here, is/was used as a symbol of Bosnian unity, related to the Muslim population of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

From Wikipedia:

'In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the flag of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1992 to 1998 contained six fleurs-de-lis and is used as a national symbol of Bosniaks.'

'The Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats who lived in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the signing of the Dayton Agreement, viewed the flag as only representing the Bosniaks (formerly: Bosnian Muslims) of Bosnia-Herzegovina.'

...and from Spirit of Bosnia:

'The fleur-de-lis state insignia of Bosnia and Herzegovina (coat of arms and flag), used during the 1992-1995 war and several post-war years, was replaced by the international community with a new one that remains in use today. Instead of the golden lilies, which for centuries had been symbols of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and her people, a newly-designed flag and coat of arms, which have nothing in common with Bosnia’s millennium-long historical tradition, was assigned. Since the newly-designed flag and coat of arms were imposed (that is, the people did not themselves affirm them), it is unlikely that the new insignia will become what the former symbols were. While civil duty demands of citizens to express respect to their formal symbols, this does not prevent those concerned from working on the restoration of the insignia in order that the lilies again become what they were to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina for centuries.

There are many reasons for the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be dissatisfied with the newly imposed Bosnian flag and coat of arms. It is not a question of colors and design. They could have been any; the problem lies in the fact that the people were deprived of their right to use their authentic symbols under which their ancestors had fought, had been killed, and had celebrated for hundreds of years. To deprive a people of such a long and rich tradition carries the weight of culturecide.'


While it is correct that the Fleur-De-Lis has been used by the Serbs in recognition of/ in relation to the Bourbons Royal family hundreds of years ago, this is something that in reality no Serb would have used as a way of national identity during the Balkan conflicts.

To put it this way, a Fleur-De-Lis on a Serbian gun from the Bosnian conflict would equal that of a pair of German SS runes on a Soviet partisan’s rifle from WW2. [Please note that I’m not by any means comparing any of the above mentioned fractions to each other, I am rather trying to explain the major differences in symbolic importance the symbols have compared to one another.]

Also, if the soldier who once carried the rifle had been Serbian, it's more likely that the carvings would have been written in Serbo-Cyrillic.

I didn’t mean to offend you by correcting your statement, mr. ddavefl, but I just thought this was a topic that needed to be corrected. I have worked in the Balkans, so I know a bit about this Balkan symbolism, although I’m no expert.

The M70 AB2 in the picture is surely an interesting piece. I also have one, and the Zastava rifles are something special compared to the other types. I hope that the soldier that once carried it, made it through the injuries he most certainly would have gotten from the explosion that scarred the rifle in such a way.

As for the Romanian sling, I would just leave it there, in the Balkans, they used all types of slings for their rifles, and I’m sure Romanian slings has been put on many a Zastava AK and vice versa. I remember in Kosovo, I saw a Kosovar armed with an SKS rifle with a guitar-strap as carrying sling, complete with the yellow Fender markings and all.

If anyone would be interested in hearing the ‘Pit…I To Je Amerika’ song, it can be found on YouTube;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzBl7v3PARg

'There’s Hollywood and Frankie Boy, Disneyland, Baseball and Rock’n’Roll.' :)


-Dan-

Awesome gun.. :)

she's a bute Clark........