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if you can find one in your price range that has a milled reciever instead of a stamped, do it
its not super important, but def better quality, but usually comes with a price tag to match
mine is stamped and work just fine btw
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This is one of the most prevalent AK myths out there.
There is no difference in overall "quality" between a milled or a stamped AK receiver. There are great milled-receiver AKs out there and there are great stamped-receiver AKs out there. There are also terrible examples of each.
Some folks consider milled AKs to be more durable, but Russian testing showed the opposite to be true - milled receivers proved to be more susceptible to cracking than the more flexible stamped receivers. Also, there really is no evidence to support the myth that milled AKs are more accurate than stamped AKs (at least in semi-automatic fire).
Some people like the look and feel of milled receivers better, and that is OK. They do generally cost more because they are more expensive to produce. One thing that is certain is that milled AKs tend to weight more, so they soak up recoil better at the cost of being heavier (though the O-PAP, with it's RPK style stamped receiver, is just as heavy as many milled AKs).
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