Well, I overcame my hesitance to expend some of my now valuable and hard to replace plinking ammo today. Put a few rounds on paper from the bench at 50 yards (that's the best I can do in my backyard...wish I could shoot at 100 yards).
The ammo on top of the 7.62 AK plinking pile today was actually Silver Bear 123 grain HP (turns out I've shot up most of my black box Wolf; except for the stuff still sealed in spam cans
).
Rifle I was using today is a bone stock double stack WASR (changed nothing besides the wood, which I refinished).
I managed a slightly off center 2 7/8"...I normally shoot more centered with Wolf.
To compare with some Russian ammo in an AR, I broke out my CMMG mid-length. 1:7 twist govt. profile 16" barrel, regular removable carry handle for rear sight.
I managed to come up with a 2 1/8" group with 55 grain FMJ black box Wolf.
I'm not much of a bench rest shooter (I practice off hand mostly), and I've not been practicing much of
any long gun shooting recently due to ammo prices. So I'm confident I could still shrink my groups down some more if I practiced. Also, neither rifle has been cleaned for months...both have seen a few hundred rounds of dirty Russian ammo, and I've just lubed with CLP when necessary (yes, my AR runs fine without cleaning even after being put away dirty from Wolf). A bronze brush through the bore every now and then might help the groups a little...maybe I'll clean them tonight.
So concludes my AK vs. AR presentation for today.