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RECOIL BUILDSHEET 7.62X39AR

In this issue of RECOIL, we celebrate the AK, in all its splendor and variations. What better way to honor it than by building a 7.62x39mm AR. And not one that takes weird unreliable mags shaped like the letter J, but one that happily feeds from the original banana mag.

Billet Rifle Systems offers a receiver set tailor made for this build. The lower receiver has a yawning AK magwell, a stainless steel cross pin, and a paddle mag release to

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