So, after work today, I took my AMD-63 to my local range. I used an hour of range time to get the rifle zeroed. It took a full hour, as the instructions I used instructions that came with my sight adjustment tool were not the best. I used Google on my phone to find some other written instructions and while those covered what the other instructions didn’t, they left out things as well. I was confused as to how to adjust the front sight post. The instructions were not clear and I ended up walking the sight post in the opposite directions as what I intended.
The range I use (Elite Shooting Sports) is an indoor range. They have a 100-yard range and I thought I’d need long range to zero the sights. Nope. All I needed was 25 yards. I couldv’e used the handgun range instead.
I shot approximately 36 rounds. I shot Red Army Standard 124-grain FMJBT (I’ve like 500 rounds of that). I was shooting in groupings of three and checking to see where the groups were landing and attempting to make adjustments. I ended up zeroed my last 5 minutes of the session.
The first grouping was pretty tight, IMO (1-inch group):
The tang that the hammer strikes is mushroomed a bit but that’s pretty much normal for most AKs. It’s only mushrooming due to the Tapco trigger group that was installed to keep the firearm compliant. The Tapco hammer is harder than than the tang. The original trigger group did not beat up the tang (otherwise, it would’ve been bad when I first received it). Eventually, the mushrooming will stop. Once it does, I’ll dremel away the mushrooming.
The Tapco mags performed flawlessly.
I had a serious amount of fun. I will probably be shooting this rifle a lot more often!
Some range footage is below.