linksep wrote:
Shoot the 600 prone with a factory stock <$650 AR, irons, and Tula ammo and get back to me...
Gotta be apples-to-apples comparison, otherwise you're talking about different philosophy of use (there I go dropping a quote from that complete ass-hat Nutinfancy).
If someone compares a high-point 9mm to a Sig or Glock 9mm, and is asserting, after said comparison, that the High Point is "better," it isn't "unfair to make observations about said assertions and possibly refute them. And I say that as someone who hasn't seen a High-Point that didn't reliably go bang.
My personal experience with the AK platform isn't one that instills tons of confidence in it. My friends who stayed in when I got out and spent time in Afghanistan damn sure didn't want to use one where target engagements often were 500+ yards. Even up close, well, I'm posing with the AK in the picture and the guy in the bunker that had the AK......
Anyhow, I didn't mean to get into a pissing contest, I just think that a lot of people have huge misconceptions about the AR platform from waaaay back when Vietnam era troops were told that they didn't have to clean the damn thing, and from more recently, where there were several instances of reliability issues related to moon dust all up in there when non-combat MOS soldiers were carrying them around without magazines in them in dusty environments etc....
I would also point out that the "reliability" of the AK was, in my experience, vastly overrated.
But, in the end, I am taking plug-and-play modular components, lighter ammo, better ergonomics, easier optic mounting options, better iron sights, and
objectively better accuracy, and the resulting huge increase in effective range, every day of the week that ends in Y.
The fact that, unlike the 80's and 90's, you can buy or build a solid AR for less than an AK is just frosting and a cherry on top.
It turns out that what you have is less important than what you do with it.