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I have a Bulgarian SLR-106FR, a 5.56×45 AK rifle, that I use to keep up my familiarity and proficiency with AKs.
A while back, I decided to upgrade my AK with a Zenito railed handguard and top-cover. I purchased from IvanTheBear and after the slow international mail got it to me, I installed these rails on my rifle. Unlike AR parts, these require fitting, or in my case, lots of hammering with a rubber mallet.
The B10M lower handguard has rails on the left, right, and bottom. The B-33 cover mounts to this handguard and provides a very rigid optics mounting rail.
These products are well made, and I would recommend them to someone looking to modernize an AK. I’m taking them off mine because I simply wasn’t mounting anything to them. Most AK’s don’t have optics, so I train with this rifle with out running optics. I wasn’t running any lights or lasers so I wasn’t mounting anything to the handguard.
If I were to do it again, I would probably get the B10U or B10L where it has their BIAS modular mounting system instead of the rail system. That way I wouldn’t need to have rail covers on the rail. I’d also consider the B-22 rail to mount a mini-red dot right above the iron sights.
That said, if I had done that, I would probably be saying how I’d rather have the rails.