01-25-2012, 11:43 PM
Sniper20 Wrote:The AK is actually a lot more accurate than people think. If you feed it with good ammo, and put decent parts in them, they will keep up with the M4. The bullet is not designed to be long range like the M4 rounds, but I have shot out past 300 with open sights on a man sized target with no issues of misses (that were not my fault). The trigger is crap in original ones, and that is the biggest contributor to the accuracy issues.
This is a funny thing about the AK, because it is the opposite of what all the propaganda about it seems to be the accepted truth...
Examples:
The AK is not accurate.
The AK is the most reliable assault rifle in the world.
My experience is the opposite of both those claims.
With the Finnish brass-cased ammo and their bullets, the Valmet and Sako rifles can be 1 MOA guns easily, but they are billet receivers and high-end barrels by Finnish Army requirements. That said, I have friends who have taken rack-grade COMBLOC guns and relieved the inside of the gas tube so that it no longer makes contact with the gas block, and the gas block is held in place by the guide bosses that lock into the trunnion only. Using good East German or Lapua ammo, those guns will often surprise you for accuracy, especially when topped with optics and a solid mount. For open-sighted guns, you need the front sight adjustment tool so you can get the windage right, unless the front sight tower is so canted that a good zero is futile, which is common on AK's, and many civvy AR15 vismods for that matter.
Will they compete with a DCM-grade AR15 with match barrel, & match ammo? Nope.
Reliability-wise, not so much. No problems with the Finn and East German or Polish guns, but many of the others crap the bed often. The fire control mechanism is also more exposed to infiltration from debris than the AR family, and subject to dead trigger malfunctions, which really suck.
[video=youtube;CqRwx4wtmms]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqRwx4wtmms&feature=related[/video]
The commonly-accepted pillars of "wisdom" on AK's are built on propaganda from both sides.