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  1. Yep, I'm still waiting for a cold weekend (indoor weather) to tackle the project of cutting off my fubar'd slip-on brake along with the barrel shroud and threading the barrel like I sould have the first time. Or I might take the gun into work and press off the front sight and replace it with a threaded model.
  2. #1 - The factory AK hs hammer and trigger pins held in place only by a twisted piece of wire. You can use that same part to hold in the Saiga's pins, but I recommend the retainer plate. It's widely popular and trusted to hold up. #2 - Like others have said, the holes are usualy pre-drilled. You're not really converting much, the only real mechanical addition to the gun is the bullet guide. Other than that, you're just removing extra non-military parts added to a military-style gun and replacing those parts with original-design military parts. The Saiga is a higher-quality AK-47 tha
  3. Yup, I've thought about dropping the big $$ to get the flush-folding setup with tang removal. I'll have to do some thinking. I like the idea of a DIY sling mount near the receiver. I could make it super-sturdy and I like that sling position. I'm Warsaw length all the way though. I shoot square to the target. I run my AR on the shortest stock position and have a youth stock on my shotgun.
  4. Are you referring to the bracket specifically, or are there other benefits to the Kvar stock over TAPCO?
  5. Thanks man - I like Dinzag, I bought my bullet guide from him. Might have to make an order today.
  6. I was really happy when I found the TAPCO black fixed stock for my Saiga conversion. It was the right color, right shape and cheap. The metal buttplate is utilitarian, true to the design of the AK. So, I was working on transitions to the shoulder (slinging it up) to go to the pistol after watching Suarez' DVD and the sling popped loose. I barely held onto the sling so I didn't ditch the AK, but I was like "WTF"? Turns out the D-ring attachment on the TAPCO sling isn't a solid welded ring. It's just a piece of wire bent into shape to fit under the bracket that screws into the gun.
  7. Hmm, nothing there floats my boat. Looks like it's time to pick up a few 10-packs of US followers from K-Var. Thanks for the links!
  8. So, I have a CAA grip that I like, but it's not US-made. Does anyone make a nice ergonomic grip for the AK in the US? I don't want to go through the hassle of changing out another part to use the CAA grip.
  9. See, that's funny because the spare parts I like to keep around an AK is another cheap ass dead-reliable AK... Sorry man, couldn't resist.
  10. I get a lot of questions about my 7" AR15, but I don't get much comment on the Saiga. I had my SAR3 out one time, complete with m4 stock, black furniture, red dot and VFG and the guy next to me was like "you don't need that to go squirrel hunting". All I said was "Nope" and popped a 30-rounder in and went to work. The coolest comment I ever got was from a buddy's wife about the shorty AR. "It looks like something out of a video game!"
  11. I'll let someone else test this one out but it looks like a good candidate for some LocTite retaining compound. Lots of slip-fit surface area so some Loctite 620 would seem to be in order.
  12. Yep, I've shot mine. Since it's probably not going anywhere due to my caveman installation method, I unscrewed the screws, added a bunch of green LocTite and torqued the screws down as firmly as I could (degreased it first). Took it to the range the next day and it didn't budge through the 100 rounds at all. I was shooting pairs and triples the whole time, fast enough to heat up the handguard but not bumpfiring or anything. The Phantom doesn't really reduce muzzle rise at all, but it's not really supposed to as far as I know. I would expect it's a fairly effective flash hider, though I've
  13. There's probably an obvious answer, but how is a MAK-90 different than a Saiga like this? I know people talk about needing to add american parts to the MAK-90 in order to legally convert it to pistol grip configuration, but no one is calling foul for using 30-round foreign AK mags in a MAK-90 in factory configuration, or are they? To me they're both double-stack thumbhole non-threaded foreign-built AKs. Are people who use foreign 30-rounders on a MAK-90 breaking the law?
  14. There were no instructions at all. Just an invoice. That's part of the reason I think it needed to be thought through more before release. Dinzag tried it and couldn't make it work. Hopefully these guys get it to work better than it does today. Like I said - live and learn. It's the price I paid to be a guinea pig. I consider it a $50 lesson in the fact that you just need to do it right the first time, which would be threading the barrel.
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