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Thanks again, IndyArms for your pointer to your post on field stripping and cleaning procedure. Yeah, now I see what you mean about how painfully obvious the location of the that third screw is. The stock has been duly removed, all is well, and I'm poised for 922r compliance thanks to the good folks at Saiga-12.com.

IndyArms, thanks so much for the pointer to your field stripping and cleaning post and your vote of confidence as to a simpleton's ability to perform the procedure. Will give it a try first thing tomorrow and am expecting good results, and if I do fail it's good to know that I'm in "the right place for HELP." I've an ms in computer science from a state school in FL (top grades, not smart just studied 2X more than the the next guy), so I'm not a total chimp, but I've never done anything mechanically and don't have natural ability at anything so I'm not overly confident venturing into gun tink

Superhawk138, I appreciate the welcome and the info. I'm basically a pistol guy and don't know too much about rifles, so I'm assuming a rifle's 'tang' is the part of the receiver that extends into the stock (which contains the top screw in my description). So, I take that out, and the screw directly below the tang's screw - I get that part. Now, the screw "under the recoil spring" has me stumped. Do I have to take off the receiver cover to locate this screw. I did take off the receiver cover and looked under what a pistol guy would call a guide rod and spring, but I saw no screw. Am I mi

Hey guys, sorry for another stupid newb (to saiga's, ak's, and mechanics in general) question, but how do you remove the stock from the receiver on a 7.62X39? It seems like all you'd to do is to remove the two screws, one at the top and one at the bottom of the receiver, and, possibly the screw at the bottom of the stock where your trigger-finger hand goes. Well, I removed all those three screws and applied some force trying to separate the stock from the receiver, but it stills feels very tightly attached. Are the two or three screws all that's holding the stock to the receiver, and, if so

Dale, I appreciate the info and the link to dinzagarms. Looks like I'll be sending my bolt carrier assembly to dinzag to do the work.

Ah, thanks for the pointer MD_Willington. I just ordered a Tapco from Brownell's. Guys, I do apologize for the stupid question regarding gas piston removal/re-installation. In reading the manual (which, dummy me, I should have done first) I see it's a field strip procedure. I think I must have automatically assumed this was an involved procedure since I'd read a number of posts in which folks were worried about achieving 922r compliance and adding a high cap magazine and replacing a part accessed during a field strip seems pretty straightforward to me. Anyway, I'm looking forward to b

I just picked up a Saiga 7.62X39 at my gunshop, took it out to the range, and I really like this gun. I'm a total AK newb. What I've gleaned from several posts I've read is that if I want to use high cap mags I need to comply with 922r which I can do by using a U.S. made high cap mag (counts as 3 parts) and using a U.S. gas piston. Could someone please point me to a website where I'd pick one of these up or recommend one by name? And, are these difficult to install? Is it a detail-strip as opposed to field-strip procedure (I'm mechanically challenged.) In my enthusiasm to get to the range