A while back, I bought a JG Dragunov. Now this is a nice gun, even if it’s not a 100% Dragunov replica. I bought it to do some sniping with it whilst airsofting and I’d been waiting for a Dragunov that was semi automatic, like the real one.

Unfortunately, I’ve found sniping isn’t my think. Maybe it would be with a proper bolt action but not with this. Most of the sites I play at allow 500fps sniper rifles but not 500fps semi auto snipers. So I’m stuck with the standard AEG limit of 328fps. Not what I want really. I also found that single shots, a lot of people would shrug off not knowing if they had been hit or not. This meant I could either upgrade the gun to double tap quickly (which worked out expensive) or to use the gun on auto and fire bursts. This instantly took the gun out of where I wanted it to be used so I thought of getting rid of it.

I’ve wanted an RPK since I started airsoft. I thought I could convert this nice piece of kit into an RPK. So that’s what I’m doing. It’s a bit of the shame as I sprayed the Dragunov to start with to get it how I liked it (black). So I’m going to convert the JG and keep track of it here.

Here’s how the gun looked when I bought it.

Now that looks fine to me. Not a bad looking gun. Obviously I removed the bipod to get it looking more like a Dragunov. I then sprayed it black.

This is how the gun looks now before I start the RPK conversion.

To get the RPK looking like an RPk, I’m going to need the following:-

• RPK Furniture
• Sights
• Mags

Most of the above I have lying around. The mags I already have thanks to already owning an AK.

I ‘ve ordered some RPK parts from Action Hobbys and I’ll wait until I get those before I do anything else