So I've been shopping around for the right 5.56 AK for months, and I'm starting to come to the conclusion that there just isn't a well made 5.56 AKM on the market that isn't going to be upwards of 2 grand. There are of course options like the ACE, the beryl and the yugo variants, but finding a solid built AKM in 5.56 just isn't doable for some reason.
The Beryls are nice, but their optic system is bizarre and I'm not a fan. The ace is just plain ugly, and the zastava/yugo variants have a very limited market for furniture, and I plane on running MWI alpha furniture on it.
I was debating the giving PSA a shot, but their reviews are so all over the place that I can only come to the conclusion that their QC is entirely incompetent. Even if I had good luck with one, I don't feel like I could ever trust it.
Does anyone out there have any good recommendations? I'm not looking for input by guys that have put a few mags through a rifle and call it reliable, I want some real high round count input. Guys that really run their gun. If I have to drop 2500 on a SLR, then so be it, but maybe I've missed a hidden gem out there.
The Beryls are nice, but their optic system is bizarre and I'm not a fan. The ace is just plain ugly, and the zastava/yugo variants have a very limited market for furniture, and I plane on running MWI alpha furniture on it.
I was debating the giving PSA a shot, but their reviews are so all over the place that I can only come to the conclusion that their QC is entirely incompetent. Even if I had good luck with one, I don't feel like I could ever trust it.
Does anyone out there have any good recommendations? I'm not looking for input by guys that have put a few mags through a rifle and call it reliable, I want some real high round count input. Guys that really run their gun. If I have to drop 2500 on a SLR, then so be it, but maybe I've missed a hidden gem out there.