All-American AK: The Bear Creek Arsenal BC-47

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posted on September 16, 2026
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Images courtesy of Bear Creek Arsenal.

Though the company is best known for its AR-15 components and complete firearms, North Carolina’s Bear Creek Arsenal also makes 10/22-pattern rimfires and handguns. New for 2026, it is introducing its first AK-pattern firearm with the BC-47.

Bear Creek Arsenal has been producing AK barrels for other manufacturers for years, so it only made sense that they would start producing the rest of the firearms.

Bear Creek Arsenal is no stranger to the AK market, having built barrels for other AK manufacturers for years. The company's new BC-47, unsurprisingly, is built around one of its own barrels chambered in 7.62x39 mm, made of 4150 chrome moly vanadium steel and given a Parkerized finish.

The 16-inch barrel has a 1:10-inch twist rate and its threaded muzzle uses M14x1 LH threads to accept common AK muzzle devices. A traditional AKM pattern, it has a stamped steel receiver that, along with other steel components, is given a nitride finish. Sights are traditional as well, with a front post sitting inside protective ears and a rear adjustable notch. 

The BC-47 is a traditional stamped-receiver AK-pattern rifle.
Bear Creek Arsenal’s AKs are available with three furniture color options.

The BC-47 makes a few concessions to modernity. It has an optics rail of the Soviet pattern mounted to the left side of its receiver and a bolt-hold-open notch in its safety lever. Furniture is polymer, with an ergonomic pistol grip, the buttstock has a storage compartment and recoil pad, and the handguard is textured with Picatinny accessory rails. 

Modern upgrades to the BCA BC-47 include a receiver optics rail and upgraded polymer furniture.

The BC-47 is offered in three variants, all of which differ only in the color of their furniture: black, gray, or flat dark-earth (FDE). The rifles have an MSRP of $899. BC-47 rifles ship without a magazine, but the company sells KCI USA metal AK-pattern magazines in 20- and 30-round capacities. For more information, see the company’s website.

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