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I've got a question, re-reading the NY AWB, it actually sounds like I could get ten-round mags. But in order to legally use ten-round mags in my completely-stock Saiga-12, would I need to change around parts to remain 922r compliant?

Herb Phillipsons Army Navy shops. I couldn't believe it either, but that's what the tags read.

Well crap. But on the other hand, never had any complaints with the layout of my current shotty, so I guess another with a shorter barrel and the clamp-on front sight is cheaper than tinkering with the guts. I'll spend the money saved on more of those deliciously inexpensive Keepshooting five-rounders.

I've had a Saiga for ages, but now the local sporting goods store carries new ones for $339, and I figure I might as well pick up another. Problem/advantage is that they're the ones with choke tubes. Since NY has the permanent AWB, am I able to put a pistol grip on, or would I have mag+PG+muzzle three-evil-features problems? I know the five-rounders aren't evil hicaps, and they're all I can legally own and use in NY, but can I modify the shotgun if I buy it? I'm not touching my ol' reliable S-12, and I'm definitely getting another, but I figure I need an EBR and I like shotguns better tha

Nothing custom except the BHO notch I never use, lives in the barn office, never gets maintained, but it has fired over eleven thousand rounds since I bought it in '04 with two stoppages- one squib and one misfeed.

MAS-49/56 rifles are either okay or nonfunctional, as stated. JFPO had a writeup that slammed them hard, other people have said their work most of the time. Personally, for the price, I'd pounce. They're going for about $350 whenever I see 'em, and even if you've gotta drop forty bucks in new springs you're still ahead of the game.

It occurs to me- Most folks have tried to make the automatic bolt hold open function from the rear of the magazine, either with a flange directly pressing up to obstruct the bolt, or pushing up on a sliding somethingorother integral to the reciever to do the same thing. However, the important part of the Saiga mag is the feed lips, which are small and located back there, which makes it a difficult place to work. I wonder if a forward BHO would be a better idea. Imagine if you would a brace attached at a fulcrum point near the front of the magazine attachment indentation in the fron

Look for a SR-41

They're more collectable than Mausers, much rarer, and much harder to modify excepting mags.

Okay, it only went 1057 rounds before a jam using Wallyworld ammo and no cleaning, and after a cleaning it's back to good again, but when I went to switch the gas plug for mag loads (there were geese in the field yesterday, they looked tasty and convenient), I found the gas plug rather frozen, with a slight smudge of rusyness on the threads. Not surprising, given it's used about daily, lives in the barn office, and hasn't been completely stripped and cleaned for six months, but still disappointing- not even my Mosins go bang more reliably. Tried PB B'LASTER and then a little judicious he

Supposedly .410 and .45-70 are somehow compatable, so I wonder if somebody's dared try this?

Extend the bayo on a '44 or affix the bayo on a 91/30. Trust me. And all the brakes available right now are crap.

Shotgun hull and my finger, or my leatherman multi-tools' file blade. Honestly, I never really fool with it.

A buddy just got a Valtro mag-fed pump shotgun, and I wonder if the five and seven round mags could be adapted, or at least purchased cheaper than true 8-rounder Saiga-12 mags.

Careful what you feed it! It's chambered for 7.62x51 CETME, not 7.62x51 NATO or .308 Winchester. Spanish ammo is MUCH milder loaded than even military, much less commerical super-duper hunting ammo. Don't blow yourself up!

You can use .308 in a '54R chambered gun, and as stated, not safe or pretty. Some guys in the bosnian peacekeeping force reported folks using .308 with a little case-neck tinfoil wadding in Mosin rifles. It'll fire, but it isn't very accurate and doesn't eject.

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Got two of 'em coming in on friday. Let you know then. By all accounts, they're a great value just for the action or stock, much less a viable firearm. Circassian walnut is phenomenally expensive nowadays, yet many WW1 and WW2 Turks are stocked with it.

My local shop has a Accuracy International .50 BMG bolt-action with a sweet leupold for $4300- heavy as hell, but neat.

I got about 30 rounds of albanian ammo from the gunshop for free awhile back, and tried some of it in my M-1927 restoration-project rifle... I managed a two inch group (cloverleaf with a flyer) iron sighted, at 200m. No rifle rest, just sitting on my ass out in the hayfield shooting up a pizza box. Firsly, damn I love these rifles, and secondly, never underestimate a Finnish mosin with iron sights.

Well, there's a new attempt to ban all centerfire ammo, but I doubt that's going anywhere... http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A05892

The M-1 carbine is/was basically a purpose-built equivalent of the M-1918 Pedersen device.

Not that I've heard. Got another letter, from the state senat majority leader. He implied it had a snowballs' chance in hell of going through.

www.7.62x54r.net www.mosin-nagant.net The thing is many people unknowingly assume that Finnish prototypes and small-run varieties are the same as the three-million-made-a-year russian wartime models. Any given Izhevsk M-91/30 is an unexceptional rifle among the other 2,999,999, and probably *is* only worth $60. A M-28/30 Finn, on the other hand, is the same action, but only a couple thousand were ever made. Kinda like the way small-factory late-war K98K mausers are pricey compared to Czech M-24s. They're in general still fairly low priced, because there's only started to be an interes

Fourteen. Mostly Finnish WW2 reworked M-1891 long rifles, but I've got a M-39, a M-91/30 PU sniper rifle, and an antique-reciever M-27 heavy barrel with a brand-new-unfired-shiny bore. I freakin love 'em. But I really don't go for the sporterizing. Too much history and too many folks who've unwittingly chopped up super rare pieces for deer guns. And they're insanely rugged. Aside from the trigger sear, I'm of the opinion they pretty much cannot be broken in any way.