75 Million Built: Is The AK-47 Really The Most Reliable Assault Rifle?

19FortyFive ^ | 8/23/2021 | Peter Suciu

[V_TWIN]

I know one thing....my AR does not like steel jacket....using tulammo .223 resulted in 2 casing jams. Brass runs through it without incident.

I suspect the AK has generally looser tolerances.

Also with the AKs the quality depends on country of manufacture. China being at the bottom or worst quality....figures

[Who is John Galt?]

...my AR does not like steel jacket....using tulammo .223 resulted in 2 casing jams. Brass runs through it without incident.
I suspect the AK has generally looser tolerances.

Cartridge case design contributes, also. The .223/5.56 case isn't tapered much (if at all), and was probably designed with brass cases in mind. The 7.62x39 case has a distinct taper (like the .303 British), to promote reliable feeding & extraction, and may have been designed for steel cased ammo.

Also with the AKs the quality depends on country of manufacture. China being at the bottom or worst quality....figures

True - I've seen canted gas blocks, loose barrels, you name it, on rifles turned out by foreign factories that also produced military AKs. The only AK that I ever owned that didn't have obvious QC issues was a Russian Saiga (which I sold last year, because I really never used it)...

[MarkL]

Except now that Biden has banned the import of Russian ammo. I guess if he hasn't banned other (old) communist country ammo importation, it's probably OK, but if the ammo is old, it could have corrosive primers.

Mark

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Like these mud tests. Thanks for sharing.

[MachIV]

Glad I am not the only one who thought this.

I will take an AK over an AR any day.