Does the Yugo M92 have a chrome lined barrel?

Hi guys,

I was looking at a review of a virgin Lancaster-built M92 and it advertised a chrome lined barrel. How can you tell if it is chrome lined on an unfired barrel?

Seeing how the M92 is pretty recent, is it safe to assume it does have a chrome lined barrel?

Please help!

Mine doesn't and it's from a 2005 kit. My M85 and M90A do though.

Thanks! How does one check?

No Yugo's have chrome lined barrels.

As mentioned above, Yugo M95 and M85 rifles have chrome bores.

No Yugo's have chrome lined barrels.

And the M90A which is the same thing as the M95

As the gentlemen mentioned above, chrome-lining is certainly an option on Zastava rifles, however, the Serbian army continues to order non-lined Kalashnikov M70/M72/M92/M76 weapons from the Zastava plant. Nobody seems to know the exact reasons for this, since chrome-lining the barrels would seriously increase the weapons’ service life in environments where one might not have the time to thoroughly clean the weapon.

Zastava weapons produced for export can be had with chrome-lined barrels as an option, and I’ve been told by a Serbian gentleman that from 1993, even the 7,62x39 M70-series could be had with chrome-lined barrels as an export-version-only option. Not all of the the M80-series and M90-series weapons have chrome-lined barrels, but, like proven in the posts above, some of them do.

There is also a common misunderstanding that the reason why Yugoslavia didn’t chrome-line the barrels of their own weapons was due to the country not having native chromium deposits. Yugoslavia did indeed have native chromium sources, and they even exported chromium. The mountain terrains of Kosovo is relatively rich with minerals, and this is by many seen as the real reason why Serbia/Yugoslavia did not want Kosovo to separate.


-Dan-

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As the gentlemen mentioned above, chrome-lining is certainly an option on Zastava rifles, however, the Serbian army continues to order non-lined Kalashnikov M70/M72/M92/M76 weapons from the Zastava plant. Nobody seems to know the exact reasons for this, since chrome-lining the barrels would seriously increase the weapons’ service life in environments where one might not have the time to thoroughly clean the weapon.

Zastava weapons produced for export can be had with chrome-lined barrels as an option, and I’ve been told by a Serbian gentleman that from 1993, even the 7,62x39 M70-series could be had with chrome-lined barrels as an export-version-only option. Not all of the the M80-series and M90-series weapons have chrome-lined barrels, but, like proven in the posts above, some of them do.

There is also a common misunderstanding that the reason why Yugoslavia didn’t chrome-line the barrels of their own weapons was due to the country not having native chromium deposits. Yugoslavia did indeed have native chromium sources, and they even exported chromium. The mountain terrains of Kosovo is relatively rich with minerals, and this is by many seen as the real reason why Serbia/Yugoslavia did not want Kosovo to separate.


-Dan-

Thanks Dan. How would I know if it is chrome lined or not?

You welcome, scuby. :)

The easiest way to see if it has a chrome-lined bore, is to check if the crown of the muzzle has a ‘stainless-steel-like’ shine to it. On my chrome-lined AKs, the chrome lining continues out of the barrel and onto the edge of the crown.

If you try to polish the edge/surface of the crown, you should be able so make it shine almost like silver without too much effort. If it doesn’t shine, there’s a certain possibility that the bore of your rifle isn’t chromed.

Sorry for my inadequate ways of explaining this, though. I still hope you found it useful. :)


-Dan-

No chrome on my either, but I knew it was an American made barrel before I purchased. The new American made barrels do have very good deep rifling.