Most people who say that the AK-47 is "not accurate" are just parroting conventional wisdom and have never actually shot one. Poorly made AK-47s might not be ac

Most people who say that the AK-47 is "not accurate" are just parroting conventional wisdom and have never actually shot one. Poorly made AK-47s might not be accurate, but anything that is poorly made might not be accurate, regardless of the design. Well made AK's are plenty accurate out to hundreds of meters and could easily be used as sniper rifles with a scope. And by "well made" I don't mean a small batch made by a boutique manufacturer, there are millions of rifles made by various companies/countries that are fairly high quality. One of the problems of talking about the "AK-47" in general is that it's actually a family of rifles produced by a huge variety of folks. For example, the actual "AK-47" is fairly rare, most rifles of the type are the AKM model, or some regional variant of the AKM. Meanwhile, you have countries ranging from Bulgaria to Ethiopia to Vietnam all manufacturing their own models, with a very high degree of variation in quality.