homers, your right its not an AK in 308...but similar and a decent way to explain one to someone that never seen or handled one....

out of the box, i guess ive never seen an AR need anything done with the gas tubes, but when you build them or swap parts, you might...but if your doin that you likely got an idea of what your doin lol....ive seen guys though that didnt back a few years when you could build them a fair bit cheaper than you could buy them, and have major issues and not know what to do...and like you said, not benchrest accuracy....but even out of the box, most will shoot much better than a mini!

i love the FAL and AKs...but out of all of them, i got an m4 in the closet and none of the others...the 223 might be the holdback...but, if you can put em where you want em, thats not much of an issue...