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Basically
what the swift safety lever does is replaces your
original safety lever and fixes one of the most
inherit flaws of the AK design. The inherit flaw
is that one has to remove there hand from the rifle
to move the safety lever from position to position.
This can cost the user precious seconds of reaction
time. By replacing the original safety with the
swift lever the user can move the safety with ones
finger instead of having to take your entire hand
off the pistol grip. Though most of use our guns
at the range and will hopefully never fire our AKs
in anger, those few seconds to switch from safety
to fire may not matter. However the swift lever
makes a nice addition to ones rifle because you
don't have to completely ruin your shooting position.
For competition and tactical shooters it's a really
welcome addition because it allows you shave a few
tenths of second of your time, which can be the
difference between placing first or not placing
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| After
I received the swift safety lever it installed into
my AK with out a problem. Using it at the range
was a different story. I am a left-handed shooter
so the swift lever was no different from the original
safety because I have to remove my hand to switch
positions anyway. So I switch shooting positions,
I could manipulate the safety with my finger but
it felt weird because my right hand is usually holding
the rifle. I then enlisted the help of my friend
who is right handed. He commented that when shooting
on sandbags at that once you get the rifle lined
up on target after a little practice you could switch
the safety lever to fire with out having to look
away from your target. He also made the comment
that the lever is easier to switch down positions
then it is to push up because of the strengths in
your finger. |
| UPDATE |
| BlackJack
has sent me a lever designed more appropriately
for the stamped rifle. The one I was using was originally
designed for a milled receiver and thus was the
reason the lever was so hard to push back up. This
newer lever has a cut out designed to cleanly pass
over the rivet on the stamped rifle that made it
so hard to manipulate back into position. But one
of the most notable features is that it partially
fixes a second flaw with AK design. Since the AK
design has no bolt open it can be a problem at ranges
that require you to keep the bolt open when not
shooting. This second lever design is also designed
to hold your bolt open! When you are done shooting
you can now pull the bolt back and move the lever
to safe and it will hold your bolt open for you
as pictured below.
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| We also
took it out on one of my rifles a few weeks ago
and achieved better results with this lever because
it glides across the receiver with very little resistance.
Thus making it easy for one with little strength
in their fingers to switch from Safety to Fire and
back. So the problems I had with the first lever
are Null and Void. As with the first lever this
one is just as easy to install, so no special tools
are required. |
| Overall
it is a very practical upgrade for ones AK because
it removes TWO important flaws. The only negative
thing we did not like about it was that only shooters
that shoot right handed can take full advantage
of the lever, but that's not to big of a deal because
most people are right handed any way. To purchase
one of these saftey levers click on the blackjack
banner below. |
