I spent a year shooting an AK exclusively in multiple classes and monthly carbine matches. I enjoyed beating most, if not all, of the field while they’d shot tricked out ARs and I shot a mostly stock AK. I can’t say that, other than starting on safe and learning to swipe it off quickly, and the reload mentioned above, I can point to any one thing that made it worse, but there were dozens of little small issues over the course of that year that both made me appreciate the AK but also want to get back to the AR.
But, as one of the other posters mentioned, the initial attraction was alway cost, and that seems to have largely gone away these days.
Update on the Attero Bravo. I decided to go put some rounds through my Draco yesterday. I also had 3 muzzle devices that I wanted to try out back to back. First few hits at 50 were on steel, first 3 shots at 100 were not. Not thinking much about it, I put a few rounds at the target at 50 and missed with 2 of the 3. That morning, I'd read on another forum about someone having a wandering zero with their fairly new Primary Arms advanced micro dot so I thought that was the problem. I turned the optic off and was just gonna kick it old school with irons for the day, and I was having the same problem, shots everywhere. Upon further inspection, the once rock solid Attero Bravo, which has the rear sight built into the mount, that had held zero for a couple thousand rounds, now had significant play in it at the roll pin. I could move it back and forth at ease. Over time, the steel roll pin had wallered out the hole in the aluminum mount. Other people have had this issue.
I went into Macgyver mode. I had a hammer in my truck and some roll pin punches in my range bag so I removed the mount. I had some keymod hardware in there, so I stole the screw out of it and reinstalled the Bravo with the set screw versus the roll pin. It self tapped into the aluminum fairly easily. After a rough rezero of the optic, I was back in business. I was unable to move the mount by hand with the set screw and it stayed zeroed for the rest of the day. Once home, I applied some blue Loctite to both screws and will go back hopefully next week and get a good zero on it. If it gets sloppy again and won't hold zero, I'm gonna ditch the Attero Bravo and put an Ultimak on this thing and drive on. I'm going to do the same thing to the Bravo mount on my WASR as a preventative measure.
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Following the trend with AR grips getting more vertical, Echo93 released their 85 grip. I have a Russian Red laminate on the way for testing.
http://instagram.com/p/BzGakGCjeTY/
No fancy pics but comparison of all the grips in my parts bin to the new Echo93 85 Grip.
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I really like the angle. It feels more comfortable during presentations. I can see this causing less hand fatigue over the course of a day. My only complaint is the lack of texture to the grip. I hope they do a polymer or G10 version with aggressive texture.
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