The Ironwood Designs stock is considered to be the best choice for replacing a thumbhole stock on a MAK-90 with a slant-cut reciever. Some parts that fit other AKs, may not fit your MAK-90. So, if you decide to 'remodel' your MAK-90, keep this in mind. Note: Please remember that the MAK-90 receiver is 1.6mm thick, and the barrel is also thicker than on Eastern European AKs. If you do that, you must then make your MAK-90 922r compliant by replacing a number of other parts with US made parts. Here's an early Guns and Ammo magazine ad for the PolyTech 'MAK-90.' Some MAK-90 owners find the stock unsightly or uncomfortable, and file the thumbhole to make it fit the hand better, or replace the thumbhole stock with an ordinary AK-47 stock. The highest quality MAK-90 is thought by most to be that of PolyTechnologies, and imported by Keng's of Atlanta, Georgia. Laminated wood RPK stocks and stock sets. The fit and finish on the MAK-90 is comparatively good and the trigger pull is smoother than other models of AK rifles from other countries. Tapco: collapsible AK47 stocks, AK47 stock sets, and collapsible stock sets for Saiga platforms. They often were sold with three 5-round magazines, an oil bottle, a cleaning kit and a sling. The retail price for a new MAK-90s was often less than $200. A very few were made to shoot 5.45 x 39 ammo. According to 'JA,' of, more MAK-90 rifles were imported from China than any other model of semi automatic AK type rifle from any other country.

Around a million MAK-90s were exported to the USA in the early 90s.

(The earlier AKs were banned because of their 'evil' features: pistol grips, folding stocks, threaded muzzles and bayonets.) The new model was basically an AK with a wood thumb-hole stock and no bayonet lug (although you do sometimes see MAK-90 receivers with under-folder holes drilled and filled). Following the import ban in 1989, the Chinese developed an AK which met the 'sporting purposes' clause. The MAK-90 is a Chinese factory built AK model exported to the USA from China from 1990 through 1994 by two Chinese export companies: Norinco and PolyTech. I have owned three of them, and share some of my photos in this web page. The letters/numbers MAK-90 stand for Modified AK-1990.

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