Agreed on all that and for years I thought they would be indestructible. I had about a dozen in Camp Gagetown and a couple left from the 1974 war in Cyprus, battlefield pickups. One was covered with blood rust pits and a folding stock...that worked fine. Some of the troops that deployed to Afghanistan in '08/'10 captured AKs there that they wouldn't even have fired. They found them so full of rust that a bullet probably wouldn't have passed the bore. I had to believe them, I didn't see. First I'd head though. They said they saw lots there. These were not taken during a fight...