merlinfire
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They're all good guns. They have all been used by 1st world militaries to great effect, or in the case of the Mini, are based on a design that has been (Garand).
Not the case, if the AR was assembled right. Here's an AR with a cheap Model 1 Sales upper after 15,000 rounds of Wolf steel-case without any cleaning, just occasional lubrication:Ar 15 has no place in a survival situation. It gets dirty its over.
All 3 choices (mini, AK, AR) field strip without tools, though a round or a fired case can be helpful in punching the AR's pins or pulling the mini's trigger guard to unlatch it. They're all three designed for easy maintenance.The mini can be stripped down with zero tools and has a self cleaning action.
.223 is definitely one of the most common rounds in the United States (it's the #1 selling centerfire rifle caliber in the USA, so there's a lot of it around), but 7.62x39mm is probably #2, and you can find it pretty much anywhere, including Wal-Mart. Around here, it's more common than .30-30, I suspect.How many rounds would you find in the abandoned hunting cabin for the ak over .223? Most likely none because people don't hunt with ak's mostly because most are utter crap.
I'll bet Iraqis wrap their AK's in sandstorms, too. AK's are pretty tolerant of dirt, but sand in the bolt lugs or inside the bolt carrier can certainly lock one up.So an ar15 is more accurate but not more dependable. Look at our troops in the sandbox having to put plastic bags over the pieces of junk to keep them firing.