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WARNING: The following information is being disseminated by an intoxicated and borderline retarded individual with absolutely no experience in gunsmithing or even the use of basic hand tools. Attempting to follow this guide will result in irreparable harm to your replica BB gun, your hands, limbs and/or face, as well as your state of mental health. Reading any further is highly discouraged. This post is tagged NSFW due to its reckless use of crude language, dangerous techniques, and low quality results. Viewer discretion is advised. Welcome to the fourth edition of Beatin' On Guns With A Fuckin' Hammer. I am your master of ceremonies, Comrade Holland, here to take you on another inebriated adventure deep into the world of Real-Steel to BB-Gun hardware conversion. Today we're focusing on fixing perhaps the single shittiest component of the AK-style BB gun-- THE MAGAZINES. If you only read one BOGWAFH, this should be it. I have broken over 30 BB-gun AK mags. Yeah, you read that right. My long, arduous tenure in BB gun war, a curse I wouldn't wish on anyone, has destroyed over THIRTY AK mags. Here's the lot of almost 20 broken magazines I posted for sale on Red Alliance... five years ago. The problem here is that these mags are 'secured' to the BB gun with only two tiny plastic nubs that rip and tear out of the magwell when the even the slightest bit of torque is applied to the Magnum-sized mags used by the AK. An endless number of scenarios can result in busted nubs that permanently take the mag out of commission. ALL brands are susceptible to this because they ALL source their plastic bodies from the same factory that makes Tampax Pearl. Remember the first rule of BB guns: ALL BB guns are garbage. Before we get started, we need to wet our whistles. The macronutrients in beer provide long lasting energy, vital for powering through strenuous BB gun tech sessions. Today we're drinking Yuengling Golden Pilsner. This was smuggled in from parts unknown to the Caliphate of Kentucky, which does not permit the sale of seasonal Yuengling. It has fantastic, otherworldly appearance. Aromas of cracker, rice, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of lemon, pear, apple, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant mouthfeel with good balance of pale malt/rice and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with high strength. We're going to be converting one of the most coveted AK magazines known to collectors-- the Soviet Aluminum AKM Waffle magazine. This mag was part of an attempt to modernize and lighten the carry loads of the Soviet Union's paratroopers and 'spestsnaz' units. The extremely high-precision tooling needed to create these space-age box magazines has been lost to Russian engineers since the 1960s. Because of their rarity, they command an extremely high price in the United States among collectors. Do yourself a favor and don't look up how much they cost. Alright, first get your old BB gun mag and mark where to cut on the new mag. If it's busted ass lip is removable, remove it. These photos were taken by a guest photographer. The bizarro camera ratio is making me a little sick.... yeah, that's it, the camera ratio. Grab a dremel and cut the lips off. Look at you, wincing like you're cutting into your own mother. It's just money, numbnuts, you'll make more of it. Always err on the conservative side and cut off less than you think is right, then sand to fit. Ok, let's start working on the internals. This set of internals has the rear locking lug molded into the internals, so let's cut it off. You know what the best part of using ultra-rare collector mags is when you're doing this conversion? The fit of the mag internals in the bodies is approximately as tight as a tranny's turd cutter-- that is to say-- not tight at all. On AK74 mags you gotta beat them into the body with a fuckin' hammer. Nice. Wait... Did I tell you the Aluminum Waffle mag also has a dark, gritty backstory that may be unsuitable for some audiences? You see, when the creator of the AK rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, got wind of its creation, he immediately drunk drove to the Iszhmash factory and wrapped his '58 Lada around a nearby Walnut tree. 'They say' he emerged, 100%, completely, bone sober, and then raked a nearby outhouse with machine gun fire. "YOU RETARDS MADE A RIFLE MAG OUTTA MELDED PBR CANS! ALL Y'ALL DIPSHITS ARE ABOUT AS SHARP AS A SACK A' WET MICE!" The Izsmash plant manager ran out, pleading for Mikhail to stop. Mikhail took a can of Grizzly Wintergreen from his back pocket and continued to perforate the outhouse. "This shit'll make you a goddamn... sexual... TY RAN asaurus" he muttered, before stumbling off. If Mikhail thinks the Champagne of Magazines is shit, it's safe to cut it up. True story. OK, let's make sure our whistles are not just wet, but REAL wet. Wetter than DJT's ballsack after Sean Hannity's opening monologue. Gunna rip into a SECOND brand of beer. You know the saying-- beer after liquor-- never been sicker. Beer after beer? You're fine to drive bro, just believe in yourself. Drill a new pin hole on the top and press the pin in with your bench vice. Hammer that floor plate on. Clamp those floorplate lips in your vice so it doesn't slide off. Test fit frequently. When you can rock and lock that mag, you're done. You now have a mag with military grade metal lugs that will never snap off... ever. Just another success in a long succession of successes, as per usual here at BOGWAFH. Let's close it out with a beauty shot of the mag and a group photo of Guffie's current core members. Bring it in close, boys. BTW: This will be the last Beatin' On Guns With A Fuckin' Hammer posted on AI. We have decided to change formats a little and post all future updates to the Guffie Coalition Youtube page, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/GuffieCoalition If you have any comments or concerns we'd love to hear them. Thanks for tolerating this garbage on your otherwise safe for work but mostly dead forum. HASTA LUEGO!

WARNING: The following information is being disseminated by an intoxicated and borderline retarded individual with absolutely no experience in gunsmithing or even the use of basic hand tools. Attempting to follow this guide will result in irreparable harm to your replica BB gun, your hands, limbs and/or face, as well as your state of mental health. Reading any further is highly discouraged. This post is tagged NSFW due to its reckless use of crude language, dangerous techniques, and low quality results. Viewer discretion is advised. Welcome to our third edition of Beatin' On Guns With A Fucking Hammer. This series covers the conversion of real steel parts to fit AK-style BB guns. Today we're going to do a very quick one-- the conversion of the AK safety lever. Before we get started let's have a discussion on why would we want to do this conversion in the first place. Almost every modern AK-style BB gun comes standard with a metal safety lever that should provide many years of reliable service. Even on the cheap CYMA and Dboys models, this part is made from quality stamped steel, exactly like a real one. So why even bother? It could be that you're looking to downgrade your gun with a bunch of gimmicky bullshit. For example, take this Krebs Custom Mk VII Enhanced Safety that retails for around $80. It has an extra dong for your fingering pleasure, not to mention the gaping hole. Seriously, it's a MK VII, it took them seven tries to get that dong right, GOTTA be worth it. It's also possible that your stock safety lever has worn out. Although on most BB guns this part is steel, it is a mild steel that is not heat treated or hardened in any way. With a lot of rough use it's possible to wallow out the hole and cause it to no longer fit correctly. Remember the first rule of BB guns: All BB guns are garbage. Finally, it could just be that nothing gets your panties more sopping wet than genuine, high-grade, non-flaccid Bulgarian steel. Between you and me, that's why these posts are 'really' marked NSFW, not because of the language, I just don't want of bunch of screamin' bitches flicking the bean at work. Get your heads in the game ladies. OK, TIME TO GET SCHLITZED. This conversion won't take very long, so be sure to start drinking at least three hours before attempting this mod. You can't focus on safety too much when you're working on a safety lever-- that's just science. Today we're drinking Labatt Blue. Based at least in part on a historic recipe from Guinness, this beer displays what a porter may have been like hundreds of years ago before roasted malts became darker and more in fashion. It's a clear deep amber/brown in color beneath a creamy off-white head that holds well and leaves almost solid rings of lacing about the glass. The aroma is toasty, just slightly like coffee, grainy, and very lightly caramelish. The mouthfeel follows with more nuttiness and a hint of leafy hops. Mainly it's toasty and nutty, although there is a touch of fruitiness to it. Just kidding, I'd rather eat kim-chi out of Kim-Jong's asshole than take one more sip of this rancid semi-liquid cat shit. Everyone knows the god damn canooks haven't been able to brew beer since America kicked their Frenchy balls in during 1812. Maybe we'll give you your precious Molson back when you decide to stop licking the Queen's boot. Down to business. Here's our safety levers, real-steel Bulgarian on the left and fake-steel Taiwanian on the right. We're going to use hand tools for this job. Yeah, that probably won't be too bad. Set the safety in a bench vice. Get a file and start working on that left nut. Keep on filing. More filing. Took me a little under 10 minutes to get to this point, my quads are really aching but no big deal. There we go. Told you this would go fast. The next step is simple. Just grab a screw driver, align it with the center of the circle, and start beating the fuck out of it with a god damn hammer. Eventually you'll pop the leaf that would actuate the internals on a real AK out the back. We're on a roll, baby. Now just flip the safety lever over. Grab a flat head screwdriver and your hammer, and just pop this reinforced ring on the backside off. Check it out... The remaining hole in the safety lever... is EXACTLY the same size and shape as the BB gun nut thing. HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT HOMBRE. Why the fuck does this work? Those morons couldn't get the fucking receiver dimensions to real-steel spec, yet the INSIDE of this part is a 100% perfect fit for their random ass BB gun pot metal garbage. Why? WHY? WE DON'T KNOW AND WE NEVER WILL KNOW. It's a mystery as old as BB guns themselves. Why does the random ass shit fit the other random ass shit? Perhaps one day we'll get a japanimation translator on the phone with Marui and force them to explain this paradoxical mandela effect conspiracy bullshit. Until that time, mankind will continue to wander in darkness. We have achieved perfection! Sort of. Not that different from when we started, really. Perfection!

WARNING: The following information is being disseminated by an intoxicated and borderline retarded individual with absolutely no experience in gunsmithing or even the use of basic hand tools. Attempting to follow this guide will result in irreparable harm to your replica BB gun, your hands, limbs and/or face, as well as your state of mental health. Reading any further is highly discouraged. This post is tagged NSFW due to its reckless use of crude language, dangerous techniques, and low quality results. Viewer discretion is advised. Welcome to our second edition of Beatin' On Guns With A Fucking Hammer. This series focuses on retrofitting AK-style BB guns with real steel parts. Today we'll be working on the optic plate AKA scope rail AKA side mount AKA what the fuck ever you wanna call it. Many years ago The Vega Force Company (VFC) was known as BB Gun War's finest producer of boutique AK-style BB guns. Chairsofters and Forum Queens around the world lauded the incredible quality of their precision-tooled parts. This reputation is not deserved. Like all BB guns, VFCs are crudely fashioned toys, shoddily strapped together by nine year old Taiwanese ladyboys working for $1.45 a day. Remember the first rule of BB Guns: All BB guns are garbage. Complete and total garbage. The issue here is that while VFC took the care to produce their finely crafted optic plate out of quality solid steel, and took the time to make sure it and the mock rivets were mounted in exactly the correct position on the receiver, they neglected to make it actually fit a fucking scope. No fuckin' clue what the hell this is supposed to be but you can't put ANY Warsaw Pact style optics on it. SO WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT HOMBRE? Today we forcibly remove Lo Pan's head from his ass and put a proper fuckin' rail on there from The Motherload Of All Motherlands -- Bulgaria. Just look at this, holy shit, this is autheentik second-world quality right here. Nice, man, Bulgaria is like the Accura of Eastern Europe. Ultra-quality. Nice. Oh yeah, don't you dare think this thing mounts Chinese optics either. The mean green here is way too small. Before we start working on this tragic hunk of scrap metal we need to start drinking. As the famous Chinese martial artist E. Honda once said, "Alcohol strengthens the mind, the body and the soul. You will not exceed the influence of my beer." (machine translation.) Ok WARRIORS let's get our chi into alignment. Did you notice that the BOGWAFH acronym doubles as an onamonapia for the sound you make with your head in the toilet after a long night of BB gun tech work? Tonight I'm drinking Bud Light. This beer pours a hazy, golden yellow colour with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, off-white head. It smells of tart, fruity acid and gritty wheat malt, a lesser milky sourness, earthy yeast and some very subtle herbal bitters. The taste is sour lacto bacteria and semi-sweet pale malt. Mouthfeel is timid with an overall body of middleweight and general frothiness. Let's get down to business. STEP ONE: Disembowl your gun. Lo Pan was too retarded to rivet the plate in properly. Instead their army of day laborers screw flatehead allen screws into fake rivets. Check that VFC quality. Unscrew these three fake rivets. You'll need a metric L-shaped allen, you can't get in there with straight keys. After removal the new plate will fit on like so: So now we come to the big problem with using real steel parts-- the finish. Matte black? That shit aint realistic at all. We need to get rid of this shit finish and find something better. Yank out that pocket sand and blast this bitch. Wow, it was previously black, now it's white, and soon it will be black again. How much more MILSIM can we get? The answer is FAR MORE MILSIM. Wal-Mart Semi-Gloss spray paint. This is WAY more MILSIM than the stock finish, trust me. We may be reaching levels of MILSIM never before thought possible. This gun will be MILSIMMING in it's sleep. I would like to issue a personal notice to the inventor of Matte Black: Eat shit and die, your gods are dead and everything you believe in is FALSE. So at this point a professional AK tech would -Remove the old rivets using a hammer and punch, possibly a bench press -Weld up and redrill any holes in the receiver that didn't line up -Buy new rivets -Use a 20 ton press and a specially designed jig to press in each rivet -Stand back and admire quality work But wait... do you see any professionals around here? No? THERE AINT ANY. SO WHO THE FUCK IS FLYING THIS PLANE? We're gunna weld this shit up from the inside like proper redneck slavic white trash. So the front and rear rivets line up perfectly, the middle one, not so much. Grind it. Throttle up your MIG welder. Check for abnormal pumping as that will affect the result dramatically. Keep your miter saw and corner rounder ready to deal with any slag. Feel free to beat this, or any gun with a fucking hammer at this point. You'll need to weld up these two holes first though. Great job team. Now you need to take a file to the metalltic splooge on the inside of your receiver. Go on, file. File. Really file. Yeahh. File. Uh huh. It's an upper arm workout. Do you even work out bro? File. Keep filing.... STEP TWO: REEMBOWL THE GUN Holy fuckin' shit amigo... we may be reaching levels of MILSIM not legally allowed by law. Just think if we were to SNEAKY IZSMASH THERE'S NO STOPPING IT Many highly respected industry experts agree that putting an optic on a BB gun is for fucking retards that don't know what the fuck they're doing. I concur. However I am going to a MILSIM west game soon. The MSW elite cadre masturbators have decided that wearing 'whatever the fuck you want' is somehow 'MILSIM'. I intend to use this to determine if lil' hombre over there is wearing Digital Flora or MARPAT or CADPAT or FAGPAT or MSWCADREPAT, etc... The difference is important, if a little subtle. Is improving a BB gun ever worth it? The answer, most likely, is no. So after a metric shit ton of pointless work, the sun finally sets on another useless BB gun project.

WARNING: The following information is being disseminated by an intoxicated and borderline retarded individual with absolutely no experience in gunsmithing or even the use of basic hand tools. Attempting to follow this guide will result in irreparable harm to your replica BB gun, your hands, limbs and/or face, as well as your state of mental health. Reading any further is highly discouraged. This post is tagged NSFW due to its reckless use of crude language, dangerous techniques, and low quality results. Welcome to our first edition of Beatin' On Guns With A Fucking Hammer. This series will focus on fitting AK-style BB guns with real steel AK parts, usually poorly. Today we're looking at the Rear Sight Block of a Dboys/Kalash and replacing it with one from a real steel Bulgarian AK74. If you are unfortunate enough to own a shitty AK style BB gun, or if you know anyone stupid enough to purchase a shitty AK style BB gun, you have probably witnessed this: The RSB and sight leaf on the cheapest BB guns like the DBoys and CYMA are made of a zinc-alloy colloquially known as pot metal. This volatile compound is known to spontaneously explode when exposed to alcohol, capitalism and tense stares, among other things. If you own one of these guns, your RSB WILL break-- it's a matter of when, not if. Consider throwing the BB gun away and instead beginning a hobby meant for adults. If this is not an option, read on. This is a Bulgarian RSB from an AK74. Waaay fuckin nicer than the one on your BB gun, wow, look at this sight ladder actuation, this is fucking nice, Bulgaria is nice. Real ones are cheaper and easier to track down than airsoft specific ones, not to mention far better made. You can use one from any country of origin, either for AKM or AK74, but man, Bulgaria, cyrillic sight ladder, come on, this is Bulgaria we're talking about, nice. Before we start cracking this creaking sack of shit apart please remember the first rule of BB guns: All BB guns are garbage. Complete garbage. Your BB gun is garbage, my BB gun is garbage, the BB gun your friend paid an awful lot for specifically so it would not be garbage, is, in fact, garbage, period, full stop, it's fuckin shit. All BB guns are shit, and working with BB guns is fucking infuriating, so if you're not drinking already you're going to want to start now. The alcohol will calm your nerves and allow for safer working conditions. Tonight I'm drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon. It pours a cloudy, caramel color with a quarter inch of off-white head and decent head retention. It smells of smoke, roasted hops, sweet malt and fits the style of a Scottish Ale. Mouth Feel is sharp and clean, with an average carbonation level. The taste is complex and the hint of smoke does not overwhelm the traditional wheat flavor. This is the third or fourth BB gun I've tried this mod on. BB gun receivers are wider than real steel so there will be a gap on either side of the front trunnion upon completion. I've thought about welding in shims or something here but there's really no point. If done properly there's zero side to side movement. Here's my personal BB gun which has already been modded: Let's get started. First, drive out your front trunnion pin. On some guns this has a finned section on one side that is wider than the rest. If you are encountering a lot of resistence driving it one way, try the other. If you're encountering a lot of resistance both ways, just hit it harder you fuckin moron. Crack that bitch in half. If your BB gun came with a sling, remember that the sling is approximately as good a quality as the rest of the gun-- that is to say, it's fucking garbage. What the fuck is this shit made of, manganese and salted cat livers? It's shit. Get your barrel assembly in a bench vise and drive out the pin holding the old RSB on using a fine screwdriver and hammer. Alright now drive out all the rest of these pins. You are guaranteed to lose at least one of these fuckers, you know you're going to, why are you even trying. Just disassemble the rest of the gun and throw it in a pile. The new RSB does not just fit right on. The barrel in this area is a wider diameter to account for the wider receiver, so you'll need to do some filing. Luckily, even shitty AK pattern BB guns like the DBoys and CYMA are equipped with solid aluminum outer barrels, which is soft enough to be workable with hand tools. Take a metal file and start filing evenly around the slot for the pin. In the picture below, the top line is where we are unmodded, the bottom is where we want to be. Test fit regularly. It should be very tight, don't be afraid to start swinging that hammer around. Put your fuckin back into it you weak necked suburbanite nancy boy. Work that rod. You probably need another beer. I've pissed like seven times by now. Alright, it's on there, but it aint straight. Just beat on it with a fucking hammer until it is. Slide the barrel assembly into the receiver. This is what I saw when I pressed the barrel all the way back into the receiver. More on this in a minute. Good. Now press your pins back in place using the bench vise. If you're cranking on the vise and pin's not going in, going sideways, or if it's bending, you may be tempted to drill out the hole slightly larger. Be very careful and always start with the smallest possible diameter (smaller than the pin) before moving up. Victory. Put all the other barrel components on. Marry the barrel assembly and receiver. Did you remember to make sure your front and rear sights lined up? Come on kiddo, get your head in the game. I recommend flooding the front trunnion pin hole with red Loc Tite to ensure solid fit and also to remind you to start drinking the next time to have to break this gun apart. After a few hours of dry time, we've reached perfection.... Sort of. It's better than it was I think, but I don't really remember much. Note that some fine, final fitment will be necessary. I had to bend the rear of the dust cover backward slightly to clear everything. Back to the issue I pointed out earlier. Depending on your particular model of shitty BB gun there may be issues like the one below: The small horizontal gap between the RSB and the receiver is one you should expect on this model. Different brands have slightly different dimensions and this can cause issues like this one. This is correctable, but it will require much more time investment and more advanced tools (MIG welder mainly) than what I have on hand at the moment. I fixed this on my personal gun which is the same make and model as the one worked on in this guide. For now I am pleased with the results as the gun is solid, will be wielded by a guy that doesn't give a shit, and work took about an hour with basic tools. If there are a lot of enterprising nerds that want to do this mod I may write a second part about how to fix an 1/8'' worth of problems but for now we're calling it a night. Great! We've half-assed an install and wasted precious Bulgarian technology on a filthy Taiwanese toy. Pat yourself on the back warrior, you do your country proud.