zstephens13
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Wow. Great video series. Very informative.
This thing had been building its reputation for many years, long before internet myths and lore.
Show me a rifle that does what the AR15 does, but better, and at a comparable or even slightly higher cost, and I'll dump the platform completely and utterly.
The reputation has been built over years due to propaganda, the opinions and beliefs of 3rd world conscripts and their commanders, and the fact that the early incarnations of the M16 were prone malfunctions.
However, the fact remains that a half-century on, the AK is not the platform it's cracked up to be, and the reliability issues with the AR platform are blown completely out of proportion.
Good grief!
We now have two threads running concurrently, covering AK's and sand, with 157 total posts.
Surely anything worth saying has already been said!
Several times!
At least I know who started the "myth". It was Kalashnikov himself...
Show me a rifle that does what the AR15 does, but better, and at a comparable or even slightly higher cost, and I'll dump the platform completely and utterly.
So I take it you are not jumping on the SCAR bandwagon anytime soon, Justin?
Several of my postings in both threads have been essentially the same things directed to different people (and in some cases the same people). The AK is a good platform. It's reliability has been highly exaggerated for years on gun boards, specifically in regards to the whole "dumping sand in the action and it will still work" part. This doesn't mean it is a bad platform.
FAL, unless of course you need a rail full of lasers and flashlights.
My initial impression was overwhelmingly "meh."
Good luck mounting optics on an FAL. It can be done, but nowhere near as easily as on an AR.
Railed top covers are easy to come by. Quad rails as well.
Pretty sure you are right RMT.RockyMtnTactical said:Pretty sure he was joking [regarding the video].
Although I think the answer would be C, those that own both.
I believe that is right (the others were HK-416, FNH SCAR, and Magpul Masada), but there are numerous rifles that will do just as well and better than the AR and the AK as far as reliability, none of which will reliably operate with a "handful of sand" in the action. That is not to say that the AR (or rather the M16/M4) is not the unreliable carbine of yesterday, it is very reliable, and very much combat proven. You can do a whole lot worse than the AR platform (and this is coming from someone that doesn't really like the rifle system, at least in DI form).Didn't the military recently test a bunch of rifles and the latest and greatest M4 incarnation come in last in reliability again.