And you don’t suppose any power residue is on the bolt of a AK, M-14 or Garand?
I’ll give you an example. On a Super Match M-1A, the receiver can’t be taken out of the wood because of the glass bedding. Even so, the deposits collect on the piston, operating rod and inside the receiver/bolt.
Clean means clean. You’re still going to have to clean around the bolt and inside the receiver. The only reason AK’s get away with it is because of sloppy tolerances.
AK’s are fun but I have never seen one at a shooting match. I did see one guy who claimed he had an accurate AK. He was hitting at 300 yards and he impressed me. He also said he didn’t treat it like an ordinary AK. He cleaned it regularly and never rapid fired it.
i NEVER said it doesn't get into everything... i said it doesn't dump DIRECTLY onto/into the bolt... you still have to clean everything and the ejected rounds dump junk in the receiver tooo like i said, vindication is the fact he got rid of the gas tube on the AR-18
i never shoot my SKS or AK over 250yds, over that i use my M1-A or Mauser as i don't believe the SKS/AK were ever intended to be accurate past 100yds anyway.