More shooting with the Romanian AKM clone

by Sarge , Central Misery, Saturday, November 10, 2012, 09:56 (4342 days ago) @ Brian A

This is the second Romanian I've recrowned the muzzle on and the results appear pretty consistent. This one shoots a little better than the SAR-1 did, but I attribute that to the WASR's better trigger. My Chief (who has an Armalite HBAR) shot it the other day and he said he couldn't believe the trigger hadn't been tweaked, because it was better than his HBAR.

The conventional wisdom has always been "AK's are inaccurate!" and compared to a Savage 110, I suppose they are. Based on my limited sample, they are *about* as accurate as any other rack-grade military rifle assuming a decent crown on the muzzle. If you heat them up, they won't shoot as well; but you're never gonna get one that hot hunting with it or shooting 5-10 shot groups.

It seems ridiculous to put a scope on one of these guns, but I think I'll do it to satisfy my curiosity. Think I know where I can borrow a 24X varmint scope ;)