I've been wanting an AK and this is right in my budget. I don't need anything fancy, I just want to plink beer bottles mostly. That said, I don't want to buy a piece of crap that's going to have awful accuracy where it can't hit the broad side of a barn and break in less than a year.
I don't have any experience with AKs, and much experience in general with semi auto rifles. I did work for a company that made rifles but it was on the AR platform. I've almost exclusively shot old bolt action Mausers growing up because that's the only thing my dad likes.
So yeah. Any advice for how I should assess the condition of this thing would be helpful. It doesn't look like it's been used very much, or if it has, its been refinished. Is this going to be about the same as a wasr (which is bottom of the barrel from what I know) or is this company better? Someone has also suggested I get a Ruger mini-14 instead for a similar price