I still see Failure To Fire issues with AK's in my courses...doesn't matter if the ammo is Sako Finnish military (Sako Berdan-primed 7.62x39), or Barnaul. The AK is just a crude, overly-praised for reliability, mass-produced by tons of different countries system, that has tolerance stack issues within the same lot, let alone between countries and magazines. No matter how much I tell AK fanatics how less than reliable they can be, the drum has been beat for so long that they are a 100% reliable system, that even the guys who have all the problems with them still will step up to the pulpit and broadcast with confidence the AK's supreme reliability standard. If you purchase tons of different mags, run them through your AK, toss the ones that don't work, and troubleshoot your system, you'll have a gun that works fine.
Every time a guy with an AK, (including me), has an a malf with one, I bellow as loud as possible, "The most reliable system in the world!" in a heavy Russian accent. Malfs with AK's usually cause major delays in the flow of teams going from room-to-room as well, since dealing with the mag is a more cumbersome event, especially the heavy steel mags. In the winter courses, where temps are -20 C, we had more failures to activate primers than I would have liked to have seen. None with the AR's...wich ran like champs.
One of the problems with 7.62x39 AR15's was the same tolerance issues from one bolt, to a different barrel, and home-builds. The Colt 7.62x39 AR's run really well with the CProducts 30rd mags, as long as you use stronger mag springs. Guys I know use AK mag springs in them, and they run great that way.
It will be interesting to see what mag design Vepr and Saiga go with if they chamber AK's in the Grendel.
Every time a guy with an AK, (including me), has an a malf with one, I bellow as loud as possible, "The most reliable system in the world!" in a heavy Russian accent. Malfs with AK's usually cause major delays in the flow of teams going from room-to-room as well, since dealing with the mag is a more cumbersome event, especially the heavy steel mags. In the winter courses, where temps are -20 C, we had more failures to activate primers than I would have liked to have seen. None with the AR's...wich ran like champs.
One of the problems with 7.62x39 AR15's was the same tolerance issues from one bolt, to a different barrel, and home-builds. The Colt 7.62x39 AR's run really well with the CProducts 30rd mags, as long as you use stronger mag springs. Guys I know use AK mag springs in them, and they run great that way.
It will be interesting to see what mag design Vepr and Saiga go with if they chamber AK's in the Grendel.
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