Warning: This is NOT, I repeat, NOT a "AK vs. AR" thread. Please go somewhere else for that.I've got a SAR-1, bought it for $320, professionally refinished (parkerized) it + 4 mags for $125, new Cobra sight for $120. Refinished the wood stock, added a rubber extender. So I've spent almost $600 when you count the mags.
It looks very cool and bad. Its fun to shoot for my sons and others that try it, but its so inaccurate that I personally don't find it very fun. You can't predictably hit a soda can at 50 yards with it, so its not real fun for plinking, for me anyway. I bet it wouldn't do better than 5" at 100 yards from a rest. Only accurate guns are truly fun.
I HATE selling my guns, because I never get back what I put into it. I bet I couldn't get more than $400 for it as is! Now the rear stock is wobbly, and I'll hafta put a lot of work into fixing it.
My sons would raise a stink if I sold it, and I know I'd take a bath on it. I might also just keep it in the trunk for survivalist fantasies.
So what do you think of these options:
- Don't bother fixing the stock. Keep it as-is.
- Spend a week messing around with epoxy and a dremmel and fix the wood stock, don't spend more money on it.
- Get a K-VAR plastic stock ($90).
- Sell it at a loss and get a VEPRII and I'll be a lot broker.
- Cut my losses, sell it, live with the regret and recrimination of my shooting buddies (sons). And prolly buy another AR.
What do you think?