>>63971869 (cont.)
>Was the old wood furniture beat to hell that badly?The opposite, kinda. The plastic furniture wasrs get sold with is kinda crap. IMO the stock is way too long, so most buy surplus Romanian, which has increased in price a lot over the past 15 years (especially the dong!). Ironically, now that I have the pso scope, I need a slip-on rubber buttpad to extend the LOP. AK furniture often also needs a rubber mallet to remove it, lol. And compatibility is often case-by-case; for example, my wasr tang is different enough from Chinese, it won't fit Chinese furniture (that I tried). Even known compatible furniture may need minor fitting using sandpaper or a file. Both rifles can be pieced together with surplus furniture/parts, etc. to look how you want (ie. like a military rifle from a specific year and country or to function/handle how you want) but that's preference. Price, availability, aftermarket, and usefulness, I'd argue, go to the AR, though. When I bought my AR years ago, I was choosing between it and a wasr. My only regret is that I missed out on a couple years of cheap AK stuff and I didn't stack enough x39 as I wanted while it was cheap. I chose practical instead of fun despite wanting to go the other way, which I believe was the right choice at that time. I did have an sks to fill that void (and force me to buy cheap Wolf 7.62x39) later, however.
