I bought a WASR 10+ years ago. Went down to a local shop that had a pile of em. Asked him to take out about 5. I inspected each, went home with the best one. A couple 1000 rounds through it, zero issues. Relatively accurate even with the crappy sites. Problems common with early WASRs were canted sites, canted gas systems, oversized mag wells and trigger slap. Mine has none of these issues but many apparently did. If the crap hit the fan tonight and I had to "bug out", I'd be leaving behind the ar's and grabbing the WASR. Sure, it's not as accurate or pretty as an ar but it's gone bang and jammed another in the tube every time I've ever pulled the trigger.