Last month I helped Eric of Rifle Dynamics film some slow-motion AK rifles using my Chronos 1.4 high-speed camera. They wanted some slow-motion footage for research purposes but also for promotional and marketing use. Plus, who doesn’t want to see guns in slow [Read More…]
After 2 years of testing and over 10,000 rounds on a single buffer, Rifle Dynamics has released their KP9 Short Stroke Recoil Buffer. It’s designed to reduce split times in competition without the benefit of having a tuned gas system. More Kalashnikovs and Rifle [Read More…]
Quickhatch, another name for a wolverine, is how the new AK pistol by Rifle Dynamics called. Inspired by the Krinkov, the Rifle Dynamics Quickhatch adds modern features to the original concept and is chambered in 7.62×39 which I’d say is a better cartridge [Read More…]
Welcome back to another Friday Night Lights. This one is brought to you by Rifle Dynamics from their Red Oktober Kalashnikov Championship. On Saturday night after the last match shooters finished for the day, we ran Red Oktober After Dark, night vision and AKs with [Read More…]
In this first episode of TFBTV Show Time, it’s October 23, 2021, and James Reeves is hanging out with Nick at Rifle Dynamics to talk about Red Oktober, and to get an introduction to Rifle Dynamics’ newest AK, the as-yet-unreleased Rifle Dynamics 700 Mid AK, as well as the very limited [Read More…]
To commemorate their 2021 Red Oktober Kalashnikov Championship match, Rifle Dynamics will be releasing a limited edition 2021 Red Oktober pistol. They are only making ten of these limited edition pistols. Rifle Dynamics @ TFB: Rifle Dynamics’ Red Oktober Is Back! [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics has been hosting their Red Oktober Kalashnikov Competition (ROKC) since 2016. Sadly last year’s ROKC was cancelled due to COVID. Recently Rifle Dynamics announced that the premier US AK competition is back on, ROKC21 is coming this October 23-24. [Read More…]
With the modularity of the AR-15, home builds are everywhere. Regardless of your skill level, with enough help from online resources (a blog about firearms, mayhaps?), almost anyone can build an AR-patterned rifle or pistol. But what happens if you want to build an AK? [Read More…]
Picture it! SHOT Show 2019. There I was, staring at the display of AK variant rifles at the Rifle Dynamics open house, when I noticed that there wasn’t a single AR-15. RD is known to make some of the highest quality AKs on the market, but why stop there? Well, it [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics has new limited edition Poppies of War Print AK Stock pouch on offer, with OTTE Gear artwork made by Andrew Bawidamann. This small piece of textile seems very unnecessary, yet if I had a Krink or similar AK, I would buy it ten times out of ten. The price [Read More…]
About a year ago, YouTuber Garand Thumb published a video review of a custom Rifle Dynamics AK pistol built to his specifications which he called “the best AK ever built“. Apparently, the AK featured in the video generated enough interest to make Rifle [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics and Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch have teamed up to create the AK that meets Clint’s reliability and quality requirements and represents the perfect AK for Thunder Ranch Urban Rifle concept. The Rifle Dynamics Thunder Ranch AK is a base platform that [Read More…]
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Every year, during the SHOT Show days, Rifle Dynamics hold their own event, the RD Open House. This year I was lucky to be able to attend it and in this article, I’ll tell you about the newly released and prototype Rifle Dynamics products as well as some really [Read More…]
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B.A.D. to the Bone New for Battle Arms Development is a foray into the AK world. Fellow Nevadans Battle Arms Development and Rifle Dynamics have come up with a pretty cool Patriotic War-themed AK pistol. Dubbed the “T-34”, the new pistol is made on a [Read More…]
After a small run of custom AKs chambered in .223/5.56, Rifle Dynamics has added this rifle to their main product line due to the high demand. This new product is called RRD556 NATO AK. According to the announcement posted on the company’s social media pages, [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics has designed a new tunable AK gas block. Currently, it is available only as an upgrade option for the company’s production model rifles, however, according to the company officials, they may offer it as a separate part in the foreseeable future. [Read More…]
There was a little confusion last week since we rolled the results in with the new BOTW. We listened and split the posts. Drumroll…..And the winner for the second set was Rick’s Rifle Dynamics AK Build with 157 votes (Steve’s Mk 24 Combat Assault [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics has announced about the addition of California compliant AKs to the list of their main products. The company has built multiple custom California compliant AKs before, but now they have these rifle as main production models. Rifle Dynamics calls this [Read More…]
The seventh Installment of Build of the Week was contributed by Rick. This is actually a full repost of his write up that he originally submitted on ar15.com in May of 2017. In any case, keep the submissions coming in! We are publishing them in the order in which [Read More…]
Since Jim Fuller founded Rifle Dynamics more than a decade ago, the company has risen to an extremely high standard of craftsmanship within the AK industry in the United States. Jim talks about the story of the company, starting with his very first introduction to the weapon system as an electrician [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics has something cool for the Father’s Day. Their Father’s Day Special limited edition AKM is specifically built to be a perfect Father’s Day gift although I think any of the Rifle Dynamics AKs is a perfect gift. Let’s first watch the [Read More…]
Within the last couple of months, Rifle Dynamics has been releasing short Q&A videos where Jim Fuller, the founder of RD, was answering to customers’ questions and showing some AK manipulation drills. I’ll post these videos in chronological order. In the [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics owner Jim Fuller took to Facebook to announce that he was approached by a ‘group of long time friends’ to sell the company and that he has accepted the offer. Fuller has not yet disclosed the buyers nor the sale price and only offers that more [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics hosted a party/show for the companies products after the events of SHOT were over, and thus don’t have a booth on the actual floor. The company is a top notch customized Kalashnikov builder that puts together SBRs to the newest offering of a [Read More…]
Keomaka is an artist who has a series of firearm and military themed paintings. In collaboration with Jim Fuller and Travis Haley, the artist made a special Signature Series of paintings, which tell the stories of life, values and passion of Jim and Travis. Travis [Read More…]
Jim Fuller of Rifle Dynamics posted this up on a facebook group called EDC – Every Day Carbine. Not an M-4 but still my EDC carbine. If you notice he has twin Emerson knives and two glocks. One is a gen 2 Glock. You can tell due to the lack of an accessory rail on [Read More…]
Not content to make arguably the finest Kalashnikov rifles in both 7.62×39 and the 5.45 rifles has set his sights on creating a true “precision” AK. Taking one of the first models out to a 100 yard range, Jim Fuller and Travis Haley are working to [Read More…]
Jim Grant is at Rifle Dynamics and got to check out their AK DMR. The receiver is milled steel and has an integrated M4 buffer tube adapter in the rear of the receiver. In the photo of Jim Fuller above he is holding a Sharps Bros MB47 carbine built by Rifle Dynamics. [Read More…]
This is the third article about the Russian AKS74U submachine gun. The first one was about the etymology of the word “Krinkov”, and the second one was about how the AKS74U came to fruition, and its actual use in Soviet service. Some readers have said that [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics (RD) is one of the top tier custom AK builder in the USA. They are local to me and I was invited for a factory visit. Unlike the popular AR-15 platform with its lego like modular construction, building an AK properly requires a lot of skills and [Read More…]