AK-MS Stock

I received it, went out back, shot with it, even tried roughing it up. This thing is more solid and holds its place better than my G3 collapsible stock. I gave it a good whack against the ground to see if it will give. It doesn’t. Then obviously it does what you would expect, it makes your gun more compact. Also it adds half as much width to your rifle vs a folded stock. I wouldn’t call it comfortable but its more comfortable than it looks. It’s a good product however I feel like there was a lot left on the table, especially for $300. You know exactly what’s lacking from the pictures so it’s not really a shock to you, but after using it, you really miss having a check weld. Could add some rubber padding to the thing as well although it doesn’t bother me shooting 5.45x39, it’s more of a “it’s $300 so might as well throw in some padding” . The corners on the rail kept jabbing my wrist upon closing as well, I think that should be rounded. Other AK stocks you really have to push into the back of the receiver and sometimes even wiggle in there, I would have liked that to be the case with this as well just so you get a real tight seal back there. The thing I like with folding stocks is you can just unlatch it and flick it open. The AK-MS doesn’t drop free, if I needed this with any kind of urgency I would simply deal with having a NATO length stock and not getting my preferred length right away. I’m sure if it dropped free someone would complain about that as well, perhaps an adjust screw somewhere so you can just choose what you want yourself? Despite all my critiques Im not taking it off my 74 that I actually use. When I was clearing rooms in my underwear with it I was kinda skeptical and considered putting it on my poverty AK but after shooting with it, it is really is handy, more comfortable than it looks, and almost as importantly, cool looking. Kind of a hail mary here but seeing as this is the only product, my wishlist for the next item would be a side rail mount that works in conjunction with this stock as well as provide a cheek riser that also slides out. I use a Zenitco B-33 so maybe something similar to RS regulates “Lower optics mount” so you can use a railed dust cover or buy an additional part to get picatinny over the top if you so choose.