Remember, the AK was designed as a sub machine gun, not a long range rifle - the Dragunov equipped Squad Marksman was supposed to handle that type of range, IIRC. The AK was originally intended for the same thing as the STG44, a "storm rifle" meant for short range urban combat, and the designers who worked on it were heavily influenced by the closing days of that war. If I remember correctly the round was invented first, and employed in the end days of WWII with the Red Army, with the revolutionary and already outdated SKS-45.
I have to ask the experts, because, for one, I've never competed in any rifle match whatsoever, so I have less than no clue - are there ANY rifles that come out to play and win with the AR-15s?
Last edited by armoredman; August 17, 2012 at 01:32 PM.
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