I know that given the nature of this forum that a lot of the post focus on accuracy and long range shooting of platforms. There will be a little of this in this post but there were other things to me that I wanted to share.
I have no idea if it was Sig's intent but in a way, the Spear LT is the best 7.62x39 rifle I have ever shot and it is not even close. I am not AK guy and I am sure there are some high quality builds out there that are really nice. When we went shooting, we had a KUSA KR 103, a Jim Fuller built Rifle Dynamics 702, and a Zastava M70. We shot three different steel cased ammos Wolf, Tula and Fiocchi. At 50 yards, 100 yards and 300 yards the Sig printed tighter groups for every shooter with every ammo and it honestly was not close. We were using a back pack as a rest so nothing fancy but we were getting right around 1.1 to 1.3 moa out of the sig. The best of the traditional AKs were a little over 2 moa.
To comment specifically about the Sig rifle, it is a thoroughly modern rifle. It has ambi controls like any M4. My friend installed a Geissle trigger (the spear was redesigned to take m4 triggers) and the Sig and RD clearly had the best trigger feel. It was the lightest of the three rifles. It was the only one with a free floated barrel. It was not an engineering project to get a surefire light and dbal on it because of the mlok rail. You did not have to do some kind of dust cover change to install an optic that holds zero or install some kind of side optic mount that you have to remove in order to clean the rifle. It has a built in adjustable gas system for suppressed and unsuppressed (we did not have a flow through can, we were using a Sandman S). This is subjective but to me, it was the softest shooting of the rifles as well. It is modular and you can currently get it in three different calibers (5.56, 300 blackout, 7,62x39). You change the barrel, bolt and magazine and you are good to go. Sig decided not to use AK mags but the steel mags he bought with the rifle functioned flawlessly. The rifle currently has around 500 rounds unsuppressed and closer to 2,000 with the can on and it has not had a single malfunction of any kind.
The Sig rifle was so good, it drove out whatever desire I may have had to ever own an AK. I am currently selling my AK, there just isn't a good reason to keep it around.
I have no idea if it was Sig's intent but in a way, the Spear LT is the best 7.62x39 rifle I have ever shot and it is not even close. I am not AK guy and I am sure there are some high quality builds out there that are really nice. When we went shooting, we had a KUSA KR 103, a Jim Fuller built Rifle Dynamics 702, and a Zastava M70. We shot three different steel cased ammos Wolf, Tula and Fiocchi. At 50 yards, 100 yards and 300 yards the Sig printed tighter groups for every shooter with every ammo and it honestly was not close. We were using a back pack as a rest so nothing fancy but we were getting right around 1.1 to 1.3 moa out of the sig. The best of the traditional AKs were a little over 2 moa.
To comment specifically about the Sig rifle, it is a thoroughly modern rifle. It has ambi controls like any M4. My friend installed a Geissle trigger (the spear was redesigned to take m4 triggers) and the Sig and RD clearly had the best trigger feel. It was the lightest of the three rifles. It was the only one with a free floated barrel. It was not an engineering project to get a surefire light and dbal on it because of the mlok rail. You did not have to do some kind of dust cover change to install an optic that holds zero or install some kind of side optic mount that you have to remove in order to clean the rifle. It has a built in adjustable gas system for suppressed and unsuppressed (we did not have a flow through can, we were using a Sandman S). This is subjective but to me, it was the softest shooting of the rifles as well. It is modular and you can currently get it in three different calibers (5.56, 300 blackout, 7,62x39). You change the barrel, bolt and magazine and you are good to go. Sig decided not to use AK mags but the steel mags he bought with the rifle functioned flawlessly. The rifle currently has around 500 rounds unsuppressed and closer to 2,000 with the can on and it has not had a single malfunction of any kind.
The Sig rifle was so good, it drove out whatever desire I may have had to ever own an AK. I am currently selling my AK, there just isn't a good reason to keep it around.