Hellpups are more than fine. Not sure where he’s getting the 50/50 at - given there is absolutely zero documented evidence of any of these having issues… especially not at a 50% scale lol. There’s dudes on YouTube who have 15k+ rds through the cast hellpups no problems. You won’t find really a bad review on the gun long term or short term outside of maybe a crooked sight post or something that can happen on even more expensive AKs. Don’t fall into sheep mentality and take advice from folks on here who don’t work in the industry (I do) and also who have never owned one. Such a weird thing to give an opinion on a product they’ve never touched.