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So the wife and I packed up everything to go to the range this morning. The AK had not been shot in a very long time so we figured today was the day to shoot it. It is a Romanian model and has always performed flawlessly. My first indication of a problem was that the mag did not insert as expected. OK I thought, its been awhile, so I fiddled with it and got it to seat properly. Five shots into a 30 rounder the sixth round jammed. WTH?!? Now this was totally out of character with this rifle. Racked the slide and the round chambered as usual. I went to put my finger on the trigger and OMG! where in the blue blazes did the trigger go??? I could hear it rattling inside but could not see it. What the @#&*&$%@#@@&&!!!??? Removed the mag and racked the slide. Did a quick field strip and discovered that I had a Houston sized problem when the trigger group fell out the bottom of the rifle and into my hand. Stood there scratching my head trying to figure out what the hey. Wifey and I packed up and drove home and I retreated into my fun room. Fairly quickly discovered that the trigger axis pin had gone AWOL which really messed up the day's planned shooting. When the bubblegum did it fall out? Its been sitting the safe over 5 years for crying out loud. In retrospect I am amazed that it shot 5 rounds before self disassembly. Went on MidwayUSA and ordered another axis pin. In reading the comments on their website I discovered this seems to be a fairly common problem with this AK. One guy recounted a story of hiking way out into the desert somewhere only to encounter what I just did. We only had to walk back to the truck 30' away and not trek across a desert without H2O and a busted AK. Wife and I did talk on the way home about "one is none and two is one" vowing now to always bring an alternate firearm to the range. Dang it the pistol range was completely empty this morning unlike the rifle range. 
