slipshod

Let me get this right... A rifle is being sold in the USA that may or may not have the following problems: "return spring was not installed" or a "weak one was substituted" or may have and "angle of the notch that holds the hammer back may be improperly cut" or a "burr edge that needs wearing off" and of course may need "a couple of hundred rounds of dry firing" to make it right? This rifle is a DEATH TRAP! You guys make me sick. GONE FOR GOOD!

DEFECTIVE = LAWSUIT....Get it? Trigger that STICKS in the ON position with a LOADED CHAMBER? Refund or lawsuit. Get it YET??

Two rifles out of the hundreds that are owned by people here? I can assure you that, were it a problem with several or more guns, then the info would be on these forums! I really didn't expect someone with 20 years of AK experience to be such a titty baby over what is obviously not a series or design flaw. Two rifles, purchased in the SAME WEEK would seem to indicate the POSSIBLITY of many more being defective. Just think of the new Saiga 308 owner who thinks his rifle is EMPTY and then the trigger suddenly comes back alive and snaps into the "ON" position. Can't understand why you

Guess I don't know what you mean? I think they are saying if you bring up quality control and SAFETY issues with brand new Saiga's then they may delete your account and prohibit you from posting. Any rifle, new out of the box, sold in the USA, should NOT require "bending", "emery cloth", "filing" or other such hack procedures to make it work properly and SAFELY. A live round in the chamber...hammer BACK...trigger locked back and needing to MANUALLY pushed FORWARD?? Are you kidding me?? These rifles are obviously DEFECTIVE and should be returned. I'm curious as to the serial number

There is a new post on this forum about the "hammer sticking" which is exactly what mine is doing. Both are brand new just purchased rifles. Seems to indicate there is a serious quality and SAFETY issue with at least TWO brand new Saiga 16" barreled rifles out there. Mines going back Monday.

That is the same thing mine did...brand new out of the box. Very UNSAFE! Live round in the chamber and you pull the trigger and nothing happens. My trigger sticks back due to weak spring pressure and clicks when you have to manually push it forward. JUNK and DANGEROUS. I'm sending mine back first thing Monday. Mine is the Saiga 16" with skeleton stock and yes I just bought it this week. Did you buy it from one of the online dealers listed on the Russian Saiga site?

Pretty hostile forum here. I took the dust cover off and have owned many AK type rifles for over 20 years. I've never seen a spring this weak. I've also NEVER had to "adjust" an ear on a hammer spring on even the cheapest AK clones. In fact, I've never had to do ANYTHING with ANY AK version other than load it and pull the trigger. Reliability is the reason why these rifles are so prolific. I'm done with this hostile forum but I'll leave you with a movie quote about the AK-47. The Saiga 308 Version should not be included in this quote as it is an inferior version: Of all the weapons

The surefire mags never really worked to begin with. I already tossed them in the trash. JUNK. You could hear the rounds bouncing around inside them when it was loaded to capacity. The factory Saiga mag worked ok as long as I PUSHED the trigger forward after each shot. This rifle was brand new.

Thanks. I was wondering why they were identical on both mags. The mags seem solid enough. Now off to test fire. I have 200 rounds of some vintage 1975 Radway Green I plan on burning up this weekend. I bought the surefire mags because they were the only brand available I posted about my experience with these mags and the new Saiga 308 I just bought. With all due respect, I have no idea what you guys see in this rifle. It has to be the worst AK design ever made. Trigger spring is so weak it won't even go back into position after chambering a round.. Mags won't even let me chamber

I bought a brand new Saiga 308 with 16" barrel and skeleton stock. I also bought two 25 round Surefire mags, new in wrap. Took it out to the range today. Loaded both to full 25 round capacity. I couldn't even pull the action back to chamber a round! Tried the other mag and the same. Took 10 rounds out of each and finally got it to chamber a round. Fired it and the trigger stuck all the way back. Took the BRAND NEW Saiga apart and saw that the spring was so WEAK that it had trouble pushing the trigger back into position after firing. I've never seen this with any AK type rifle. I

Thanks. I was wondering why they were identical on both mags. The mags seem solid enough. Now off to test fire. I have 200 rounds of some vintage 1975 Radway Green I plan on burning up this weekend. I bought the surefire mags because they were the only brand available

These are new, in the factory plastic, unfired Surefire 25 round 308 Saiga mags. I have two that have identical hairline cracks that do NOT transfer to the inside of the magazine. Just wondering if this is ok or should I return them? It's not a scatch. I looked at it with a 10X magnifying glass and it's a hairline crack Thanks