I'd been planning to do a .50 Beowulf AK with a bent receiver, but a milled Chinese receiver is now laying on my workbench. It's part of some kind of training/DEWATS rifle; the barrel is welded up, the top cover has a few short (and pretty!) TIG welds anchoring it to the receiver, and it's missing the bolt and carrier.
I'll need the following:
.50 barrel
7.62x39 bolt to match the Beowulf case head
bolt carrier and operating rod
.223 magazine (may require some "adjustment" according to the AR15 sites)
modified or full-custom RSB, gas block, and FSB - the .50 barrel would have to be thinned unworkably to match the OEM bits. Though machining them from scratch is okay, I might cheat, saw the rings off, and weld or silver solder them to appropriate-sized tubes
At the moment, the only real point of uncertainty is the barrel attachment - it appears to be threaded into the receiver. I know I saw a chart around somewhere that gave the thread specs, but darned if I can find it now...
Anyone see anything major I've overlooked? Other than the gas and sight blocks, it looks fairly easy.
I'll need the following:
.50 barrel
7.62x39 bolt to match the Beowulf case head
bolt carrier and operating rod
.223 magazine (may require some "adjustment" according to the AR15 sites)
modified or full-custom RSB, gas block, and FSB - the .50 barrel would have to be thinned unworkably to match the OEM bits. Though machining them from scratch is okay, I might cheat, saw the rings off, and weld or silver solder them to appropriate-sized tubes
At the moment, the only real point of uncertainty is the barrel attachment - it appears to be threaded into the receiver. I know I saw a chart around somewhere that gave the thread specs, but darned if I can find it now...
Anyone see anything major I've overlooked? Other than the gas and sight blocks, it looks fairly easy.