{"id":4206,"date":"2012-08-05T22:25:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T05:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2012-08-05T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T05:34:13","slug":"ar-vs-ak-sight-radius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/firearms\/rifles\/ar-vs-ak-sight-radius\/","title":{"rendered":"AR vs AK Sight Radius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4208\" title=\"AR vs AK sight radius\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ar-vs-ak-sight-radius.jpg?resize=521%2C1022\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"1022\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest negatives listing in the AR vs AK debate is the AK-47&#8217;s shorter sight radius. Well a\u00a0member over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/guns\/comments\/xqe4y\/funny_thing_about_the_aks_sight_radius_that\/\">Reddit posted<\/a> an interesting picture comparing the sight radius of an AK variant rifle and a carbine length AR-15. \u00a0Looks pretty even to me.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair a mid-length or rifle AR upper would have a longer sight radius so you could still use the AK&#8217;s shorter radius vs the AR as a valid argument. \u00a0This just goes to show however that it&#8217;s not that the AK has such a shorter sight radius than the AR-15 (it&#8217;s still a pretty darn short radius in general), it&#8217;s the fact that the AK&#8217;s rear sight is located so far forward.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a deal breaker for those choosing between the two? Honestly to me it isn&#8217;t, there are other pros and cons to both rifles to consider. When it comes down to it, it&#8217;s all about which rifle you&#8217;re more comfortable with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest negatives listing in the AR vs AK debate is the AK-47&#8217;s shorter sight radius. Well a\u00a0member over on Reddit posted an interesting picture comparing the sight radius of an AK variant rifle and a carbine length AR-15. \u00a0Looks pretty even to me. To be fair a mid-length or rifle AR upper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24,60],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rifles","tag-ak-47","tag-ar-15"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ar-vs-ak-sight-radius.jpg?fit=521%2C1022&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armoryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}