Mini draco!

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New to our inventory is the Romanian AK Draco mini handgun in 7.62x39 caliber. Patterned after the popular Romanian Draco pistol the Draco mini has a 7.5 inch barrel and is 17 inches in overall length. Iit has a matte black finish, a muzzle-nut and no slant cut muzzle break as well as a plastic pistol grip and one each hicap magazine. Uses any standard AK double stack mag or drum. This is a handgun, see below for shipping details. This firearm was assembled by Century Arms International and may contain both new US made parts and original used surplus parts. May or may not include cleaning rod.

Any news on these?

I think they look sweeeet!
 
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Any news on these?
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This part wasn't enough for you?
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This firearm was assembled by Century Arms International
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Birdmang said:
I think they look sweeeet!
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If you're buying for a wall hanger, it sure does hit the spot!

If you're wanting a functional gun, keep this in mind:
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This firearm was assembled by Century Arms International
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Yeah I figured I would have to mess with it to make it work right, but I really like the look!

Also I want a full size draco, I believe those ones are just imported by century and functionality will be alright.
 
The pistol is built in Romania to military spec, only thing Century Arms did was put their stamp on it. I own it, love it, eats any kind of ammo I shove in it and do not have anything negative to say about it exept the fact it is so new I cant get any handguards for it.

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This is what it looks like now.

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You have a bigger picture of the bottom one?

Anyone else own one and shot theirs yet?
 
he pistol is built in Romania to military spec, only thing Century Arms did was put their stamp on it.
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From J&G sales ad:

This firearm was assembled by Century Arms International and may contain both new US made parts and original used surplus parts. May or may not include cleaning rod.
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They have the same thing for the 5.56 ones. I'd like to know if this is the case. If Century is monkeying with them I'd prefer the 4" of barrel and the less expensive fun. Otherwise these look interesting.

I'd definitely want a hand stop and probably a flash hider or brake. It looks a little easy to sweep your hand in front of the muzzle.

My other concern would be whether I could run a suppressor on the shorter barrel.
 
The Draco pistols have incredibly tight magwells and mag catches. Polymer mags are almost impossible to get in. I had to file mine a good bit in order to be able to remove mags without a pry bar.
 
Wow, I kinda want one... just to compare it to the fire ball on my regular draco.

That is begging for to be an SBR, but I wonder about reliability and effectiveness of a 7.5 inch barrel...

That hand guard is ugly.... and I wouldn't want my hand that close to the end of the barrel.

But I still want one...
 
They used the short gas system commonly seen in Krinkov pistols / SBR's. The reliability should be fine. I'd definitely replace the handguard with something else, though, and probably fit it with a brake or Dishka hider for added safety.
 
Theres a thread going on in the pistol forum, I just got mine and I like it. Mine is a few hundred newer than yours, pretty same condition as well. Nice vids.
 
With 7.62x39, I'd rather have the slightly longer Draco that I have. Every extra little bit helps, and I'd rather have it be a useful rifle (with stock, SBR) past 200 yards. ;)
 
Yikes, that's really small. Has anyone on here chronographed 123gr FMJ from that little barrel? My full-size Draco (11.5" barrel) gets around 2300FPS with 123gr ammo, which is within 50FPS of a full length barrel.

From what I could find online, the mini seems to be clocking in around ~1950FPS with the same ammo. Losing 350FPS with a 123gr projectile makes for seriously lousy energy downrange. At 200 yards, the mini Draco should keep the bullet ~1600FPS, for about 715 ft/lbs. The full-size Draco keeps it to ~1929FPS, for just over 1000 ft/lbs.

At the muzzle, it's even more striking - full-size is ~1450 ft/lbs, and the mini is ~1000 ft/lbs.

As long as it's a "fun gun", neat. But for SBR or other serious use? Full-size all the way. Making it all of 5" shorter (by the way, if the mini is 7.5" barrel and the full-size is 11.5" barrel, why is there another inch gone?) overall isn't worth losing that much performance, in my opinion. :)
 
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Yikes, that's really small. Has anyone on here chronographed 123gr FMJ from that little barrel? My full-size Draco (11.5" barrel) gets around 2300FPS with 123gr ammo, which is within 50FPS of a full length barrel.

From what I could find online, the mini seems to be clocking in around ~1950FPS with the same ammo. Losing 350FPS with a 123gr projectile makes for seriously lousy energy downrange. At 200 yards, the mini Draco should keep the bullet ~1600FPS, for about 715 ft/lbs. The full-size Draco keeps it to ~1929FPS, for just over 1000 ft/lbs.

At the muzzle, it's even more striking - full-size is ~1450 ft/lbs, and the mini is ~1000 ft/lbs.

As long as it's a "fun gun", neat. But for SBR or other serious use? Full-size all the way. Making it all of 5" shorter (by the way, if the mini is 7.5" barrel and the full-size is 11.5" barrel, why is there another inch gone?) overall isn't worth losing that much performance, in my opinion. :)
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I think bullet from Mini Drakul would go through ballistic vest. Truly frightening weapon in hands of loco man.:eek:
 
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I think bullet from Mini Drakul would go through ballistic vest. Truly frightening weapon in hands of loco man.
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There are a few (smaller) pistols that fire rounds that will penetrate a ballistic vest. Some even have a similar magazine capacity.
 
And these comments have WHAT, exactly, to do with this conversation? You guys planning to knock off some cops? :uhoh: :rolleyes:


Seriously though - take a look at the numbers. The mini-Draco is significantly less powerful, at the tradeoff of being only 5" shorter - and overall, it's still huge, just slightly less huge. I'd rather have great performance and a slightly larger gun, especially since it gives me a better sight radius and thus better effective accuracy. :)
 
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