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As has been said check the extractor and spring, also clean the gun and pay attention to the gas system, make sure nothing's binding.

Galil 35 round mags work fine in my experience, you will probably need to shave a bit of material at the front of the mag well for them to fit.

Shave the trunion. It's a very small amount of material and can be done with a round stone on the dremel in a few minutes. The one I did takes bulgy circle 10's, and Galil mags with no mods to the magazine.

Every time a mag adapter is installed, an angel loses its wings It sure would be nice to use AR mags though.

Pretty easy for him to say the "slide fire" stock POS will be banned soon considering they already banned the identical stock for the SKS. I wouldn't touch one of those with a 50 foot pole and someone else holding it That said, I see so many Saiga's with 30 rounders stuck in them and NO conversion that I really don't imagine the ATF will be bothering with guys who actually follow parts counts and do the conversions properly.

Do this! You won't regret it when it's finished.

Why not, put me in!

I tested out the buckshot loads yesterday. The .144 loads with the windjammers were pussy cats and the odd crimps made them inconsistent. They did pattern very well out at 15 yards. The .155 loadings with the windjammers were still inconsistent but had a lot more power. Finally the .155 bushings with the WAA12F114 wads shot very well. They didn't pattern quite as well because they wanted to stack 2 pellets very close at 30 yards, but the patterns were all about a foot across at 30 yards, the recoil was very tolerable, and with the good crimp they were consistent. I still may swap over to

The 8 buckshot is so I can fit even stacks of 2 inside the shell. This way I don't have to do any mods to the wad cups, and I've heard they will pattern better this way. On the airsoft rounds they are dirty little buggers but they work really well, I'll try and post up some videos of me shooting some soda bottles with them or something. I highly doubt I would ever shoot at anything living with these, it was mostly a "this'll be neat for the back yard" type of thing.

34 reads and not one reply? Figured I would update this actually the wads I'm using are the older WAA12F114s. I used these to make a few airsoft loads today and they seem to work better than the windjammers with a louder report. I still haven't got to shoot the buckshot reloads but I plan to do that soon and will post back with the results. I'm really kind of paranoid to up the ante to the larger bushing because it seems like the CCI primers are really hot, they produce more pressure for the velocity than Winchesters etc.

"Seven 69 grn 5.56 projo's fit neatly into a 12 Ga hull. Makes a 1 1/8 oz load....just say'in." I have heard stories of the government making shells that contained stacks of rifle rounds like this.

I just got my Lee Loadall 2 set up and running. The first loads I made were: Remington STS light target hulls, CCI 209 primers, .141 (15.8) grains of Clays, Windjammer wad, and 8 00 buckshot pellets. These rounds came out ok, but the crimps seemed bulged upwards without much of a lip. The next batch were the same as above, only using the .155 bushing (17.4 grains). Same deal here with the crimp. Finally I decided to try the WAA12F114 wads as they had a bit more depth, I loaded these up over the .155 bushing and the crimp came out gorgeous. As a note, all 8 pellets in the sho

"and concluded that a Saiga with P-grip conversion was the ideal tactical carbine." My sentiment exactly, I wouldn't touch the hand guard on my rifle, it looks excellent the way it sits, covers alot of the barrel so no burns; overall it's a wonderful unit. If the screw in the receiver is backing out on you put some green or purple loc tite on it; problem solved.

I've used Galil 35's and a Bulgarian clear 30; both of these rock the socks once the bullet guide is installed. I've had one problem with the Bulgy and it didn't fully feed, I wasn't shooting it so I'm pretty sure the guy using my gun basically "limp wristed" it. Out of the other 3 or 4 hundred rounds everything has went without a hitch.

Probably one of the 10 round Galil magazines stuffed in it.

Care to share the source? And $5 dollar Galil mags... this was in like 1992 correct?

Yes they are just as tough.

Personal opinion is the bolt hold open built into the magazines is a joke, it's not an intergral part of the rifle and is pointless. I wouldn't want this on my gun until someone builds an actual bolt hold open/release for them which I understand is in the works.

Are all of these modified?

Victorinox Tinker model, all the knife you will ever need. I'de like to see another knife besides the swiss army knife that can save your ass in one of those steak stuck in tooth crisis moments! Or better yet, all knives warn you not to use them as screwdrivers but the Swiss army puts screwdrivers in their knives! How about that LOL.

It will work, velocity will be pretty quick out of the muzzle but will drop off fast. I wouldn't shoot these at anything living unless you plan to kill it.

... I posted up 2 videos of the mods I did and got not 1 reply to them so I took them down, seemed like there was no interest. Also I spent virtually no time on my rifle total to get the bulgy's and the Orlites to snap in and function just fine; I see no reason to not do these mods, I know I saved time over grinding on the mags and if I get any different mags in the future I won't have to touch them. The Orlite mod was so simple it was insane, I honestly didn't spend 2 minutes of time actually grinding. I'll retake the photo's when I get back to my rifle and post them up again to show what

Couldn't he just clearance it a bit and use Bulgarian military magazines?

Failed meaning fires, cycles, and won't fire on the next round or fires and fires and fires and fires and you're in for a ride till you let up on the trigger; I highly doubt it's the disconnecter spring but if it is make damn sure it's replaced before you fire the gun or it will "hammer follow". To check it without live rounds hold back the trigger and cycle the bolt on an empty gun, now let off the trigger and pull it again; did your hammer fall? If so you're good, if nothing happened you found your missing spring's location, it goes in the trigger group, do a search if you need more info.

The mod needed to the rifle to make these mags clear for me was very minor, less than a minute with a dremel and I don't have to touch any of the mags I purchase in the future. Is there any reason people don't do a little grinding on the magazine well more often? It just seems that if you're dealing with more than 1 or 2 mags it is so much more economical in the long run plus you don't have to mess with the mags. Oh BTW I got a chance to look at some AR15 Orlites today, WHAT A JOKE! I couldn't believe those were made by the same company, paper thin poly and no reinforcement I could see, it