LCT AK Receiver question

[Austeyr]

I've had a look through the LCT catalogue and can't find anything so figured ask the hive mind.

 

I'm looking for an LCT replica AK that can take the AIMS style stock - Now for the hard part... without the side mount for an optic.

 

Anybody know of a model that I may have missed? Ideally 47/74 length barrel but it really doesn't matter.

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Afaik the aims stock mounts to the standard wood stock tang, so a standard 47 should fit the bill.

[mightyjebus]

side mounts are usually bolted or riveted to the side of the receiver and can be drilled off. Wire stocks on AK's came in 4 versions, Romanian, Polish, Egyptian and Hungarian and all 4 are different. The Romanian and Polish look very similar but the difference is that the polish version used a button for folding whereas the Romanian one used a lever. The Maadi is similar to the Hungarian version but instead of a T shaped butt stock, had a triangle shaped piece of metal. There is more nerdy detail I could go in to but that's a general rule. One other thing to consider is all wire side folders were built on AKM's and not milled receiver AK's. 

 

In airsoft you can find 3 of the 4 stocks as aftermarket parts (no one makes a Maadi)

 

EDIT - I forgot to mention East German but these were just a copy of the Polish one

Edited 47 minutes ago by mightyjebus

[GeorgePlaysAirsoft]

Take all of this with a pinch of salt, I have an AIMS out of the box but not sure on everything else.

 

LCT make the AKM and the AKMN/AKMNV  (which has the side rail). I had a quick google and it does seem that lots of retailers will sell the AKMN as the AKM and generally get the models mixed up. For example Fire Support sell the "LCT LCKM AKM NV" which is just the AKM, so no side rail.

 

Again not sure but I think the AK47 stock tang is at different angle to the AKM so the folding stock may look wonky.