I had been thinking about throwing down the $$ for an AR, but I realized that I'd rather be stuck in the woods for a month with an AK rather than a finicky AR, so I decided to trick out my SAR-3 in .223.
After some new furniture, a red dot and a Surefire G2 rig, my AK is ready for bug out, evac or whatever else decides to bump in the night en masse.
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I think it's definitely an improvement! What do you think?