Buying
an Assault Rifle
AR
vs. AK
If you don't own a
civilian-ized military rifle, it's not to late. Most manufactures
have stepped up production to meet the needs of our free society.
The first thing most of us
consider before we purchase anything is the price. In the Pacific
Northwest the price of an item has a lot to do with where the store
is
located. In my recent travels
I have found a dramatic difference in pricing for ammo, guns and
accessories seemingly all based on demographics. The more affluent
the neighborhood the higher the price.
When I'm asked, what's the best
rifle to buy?
I respond with what are you
going to use it for?
The type of shooter you are
really makes a difference as to what I might recommend.
If you like going to the local
gravel pit and love to burn up ammo get an AK-type. The
re-manufactured imports are less expensive and ammo is cheaper.
The maximum effective range of
the 7.62 x 39mm is 300 meters and are known to shoot groups over
minute of angle or (MOA). When your shooting at an old computer,
TV, water jugs, or even at an over ripen fruit, accuracy is not a
high priority.
Do you like going to your local
rifle range? Is accuracy, craftsmanship, and owning an American icon
what you are looking for?
Then defiantly get an AR-type.
The average AR-type using the
.223/.556mm has an effective range of 500 meters.
The accuracy is often well
within MOA.
They are mostly built out of
aluminum and lighter weight than the AK.
Most of all they are American
Made.
To be fair, the AK has a
history of operating under more diverse conditions. You can bury it
in mud, let it rust up and abuse it all you want and it will still
shoot.
I have never meet anyone with a
lick of sense who is willing to spend hundreds of dollars on a new
rifle just to bury in mud and let it rust up.
If weight is a factor consider
this. An AR-type with one fully loaded 30rnd magazine weighs about
the same as a AK-type with an unloaded 30rnd mag.
That means with the AR-type you
can carry 2/3rd more ammo.
I am bias as I am a former
Marine and I was trained on the M16A1. The civilian-ized rifles
available today have the same effectiveness as that old Colt I
carried, with the exception of being fully automatic.
The reason I didn't name other
designs is simple, I tend to group together rifles based upon
operation systems.
A gas piston type of operating
is an AK-type
(ie: Galil, Valmet, AK47, )
The gas impingement system of
the AR-type
(ie: AR-15, XM15E2S, LAR-15)
The newest trend is the
bastardization of making AR's into gas piston guns,
that I will leave for another
day.
Be safe and Keep Your Powder Dry
Terry the Gun Guy
T2G2
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