The AK (I'm talking about the Vepr) is stone totally reliable under almost any imaginable circumstances, and is accurate enough to produce inch or inch and a half groups at 100 yards.
All this stuff about AK inaccuracy is the stuff of bench rest shooters, not those with practical field experience with an AK. You wanna stick your head up at 500 yards with open sight AK-74 armed Spetznaz soldier shooting at you?
I shoot my AK regularly at 150 yards offhand and from field positions. My target is clay pigeons and I hit those little 3 1/4" targets with boring regularity. I wouldn't mind an AR, in 6.8, or something more decent - but that gas system still gives me the heebies.
Ex-co-worker *loved* the AR. I commented on the lack of reliability “Oh, yeah, if you're a dumb ass” he'd say. “Trick is, whenever you stop for anything, you oil it, if you're stopping for more than 20 minutes, give it a quick once-over, and clean it daily” “Uh, how often would you do that for an AK?” “Shit, you don't clean those, just shoot them a couple times, they're good to go”