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Thanks for the info everybody. One more thing.. where can I find 10 rd magazines? Every place I've found them online seems to be out of stock.

Soundwave is correct. To legally own a magazine in California that can hold more than 10 rounds you must have had it in California before Jan 1st 2000. Relevant penal code: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/pen/12020-12040.html And yes if you keep your Saiga with the original hunting rifle stock you can use detachable 10 round mags, but if yours has either a pistol grip or even the original Dragonov style thumb hole skeleton stock (like mine) then you have to disable the mag release. Ok, thanks for the info - this is exactly what I needed to find out. Wow, that's some de

Ok, so according to that flowchart I should be able to use "hi-cap" magazines on my Saiga so long as it does not have a pistol grip, forward pistol grip, flash supressor, folding/collapsable stock, thumbhole stock, or grenade/flare launcher? I gather then that my options are: - Pistol grip (conversion or aftermarket stock) + 10 rd magazines + magazine lock - Skeleton stock + "hi-cap" magazines

I'm looking at a cross-country move for a job offer I really can't refuse. My beautiful Yugo SKS won't be making the trip because from what I understand the grenade launcher would have to be removed and I'd rather part ways with the rifle than mutilate it. I have an unconverted Arsenal Saiga 7.62x39. What are my CA-legal options? From what I understand, it would need a magazine lock in order to use so-called 'hi-cap' magazines, but is this only the case when there's a PG on the rifle? Or are 30-rounders a no-no even with the factory monte carlo stock? From what I understand I wouldn't have

Samco has Yugoslavian Surplus (Brass cased, but corrosive) $104.58 for 420 rounds or $301.14 for a 1,260 round case: http://www.samcoglobal.com/Ammunition.html Ammo4Guns has Wolf MC for $229.95 per 1,000 round case or Golden Tiger for $244.95 per 1,000 round case: http://www.ammo4guns.com/RIFLE_AMMO.html Cabela's has Wolf MC for $144.99 for 500 or $259.99 for 1,000 (both come in steel ammo boxes): http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/template...requestid=16386 Cabela's has been out of stock on Wolf MC for quite a while (try to add it to your cart, says its on backorder). My

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I mean reloading the magazines. If you've got a dozen mags you'll probably be fine. But if you only have one or two with you, I'm betting it'll take longer to reload those.

I don't have an S-12 so I can't comment on its action directly, but I do have a pump 12ga and a Saiga 7.62x39. The immediate concern that comes to mind is reloading. I know you can change out a S12 magazine a lot faser than you can reload a tube-fed shotgun, but I can load 3 shells into the tube of my mossberg in about a second and a half and don't have to worry about how many fresh mags I have. I keep my fresh shells on my left hip and I grab 3 at a time with the brass end near my pinky. Without lowering the gun from shooting position, I can slap a shell in and ram it forward with my pink

Still not as cool as That's the poster from Undead - a great cult Aussie zombie movie. If you like low budget so-terrible-its-awesome movies featuring the main character punching zombie fish, well there ya go! At the end of the movie, the heroine adds a fourth barrel but I can't find any pictures of it. I was going to make that my halloween costume this year, but I wasn't about to start welding my guns together (as awesome as that would be) and the cheapest non-shit-looking airsoft ones I could find were in the neighborhood of $50 ea - not about to drop $150 on plastic guns

Storing it in the 'wrong' container is fine, just grab a sharpie and label it appropriately so you don't get mixed up in the spring and pour diesel in the mower If you're going for long-term storage, add a fuel stabilizer like sta-bil or PRI. When I was a kid one of my chores was mowing the grass. I think those 2.5 gal containers reproduce in the dark shed over the winter. We didn't believe in labeling containers F-O when applicable, so more than once the 4-stroke mower got a gulp of F-O and the 2-stroke weed whacker got a lower ratio of oil than it expected.

BPS has plenty of birdshot, 16ga, 410, etc but is out of most handgun and buckshot. There are 2 wal mart locations near me. The both have been having trouble keeping 00 buck and 45 acp in stock for the last couple of months. Chain sporting good store here has almost no ammo in stock. Biggest gun store around here cannot keep 7.62x39 or 223 in stock. The small shop near my house has most things in stock, but his prices are really high.

BPS has plenty of birdshot, 16ga, 410, etc but is out of most handgun and buckshot. There are 2 wal mart locations near me. The both have been having trouble keeping 00 buck and 45 acp in stock for the last couple of months. Chain sporting good store here has almost no ammo in stock. Biggest gun store around here cannot keep 7.62x39 or 223 in stock. The small shop near my house has most things in stock, but his prices are really high.

I have a decent gym in the basement (dumbells, bench, lat/row machine, elliptical) that I've mostly ignored for the last few years. I quit smoking 3 weeks ago today (grumble grumble, still not any easier) and have been working out hard ever since. I'm 7 days into a 90 day program (haven't missed any so far) and I usually do cardio after the program for another hour or so. So far I've managed to keep my weight about where it was before I quit smoking (including all the gorging over the holidays) so I'm happy with that. The program I'm doing now focuses on using moderately heavy weights SLOWLY.

OK, thanks.... sorry 'bout that. I have no idea where it came from or why it's there. Not sure what you're quoting, but port 80 is the default web port. i.e. http://www.magpul.com is the same thing as http://www.magpul.com:80. Your browser just doesn't show it. As for why it was there, likely a misconfiguration on magpul's web server, or being redirected from SSL (https) which uses port 443.

Heh, figures.What about the diesels or V8s from newer (~2005+) Silverados? Thinking about getting a 2500. Didn't know that, but it's hardly surprising. "No, that old car of yours won't work with E85, here, buy this new one!" I'm not married to my current truck, but it's hard to argue with paid off

Vortec 2200, the 4 cyl 2.2L engine GM used in the S10 and Sonoma from 1998-2003. It's a fuel injected flex-fuel (runs on E85 or unleaded). Only 120HP but with the 5-speed I average 27-28 MPG

I'm not sure where the misconception that an EMP is some magical physics defying force came from. It's an electromagnetic wave, just like radio wave, just like light, just like X-rays. It travels at the speed of light. It cannot appear everywhere at once -- this is a fundamental violation of the laws of physics. It may *appear* to by virtue of moving so quickly. Assume for the sake of argument that an EM wave will travel through air at 1X per second (X is an arbitrary unit of distance here). Assume also that EM will travel through copper at 1.1X per second. Say that your Faraday cage is 10 fe

I see no reason why there would be an 'upper limit' to the amount of energy that a Faraday cage chould shunt to ground, so long as the surface is unbroken. It's not like the charge stays on the outside of the conductor until you turn the knob up to 11 The situation with lightning and planes is a little different. Planes getting struck by lightning is a common occurrence, and most of the time the only way pilots are made aware of it is if somebody else sees it and tells them. There's no danger in lightning striking a plane as it's not grounded. Most of the time the bolt will continue from

See my comments above about grounding and Faraday cages. EMP mostly only affects nonlinear junctions. The most common application is transistors, so pretty much anything more complicated than a heater or a lamp will get the finger. LEDs will probably be boned too since they are p-n junctions (same as in a transistor). But non-LED flashlights should be just fine. Vacuum tubes are pretty much unaffected as well. The Soviets feared EMP attacks - during most of the cold war, Soviet planes still used tubes for their avionics. Most motorcycles aren't fuel injected and should be easy to repai

Not that they aren't dreaming of doing that, but if the US went down, most of the world will be joining us in the 1800s. The dollar doesn't have a backing resource and isn't worth a lot these days, but pretty much every currency would fall if the dollar disappeared. Every country the US supports in a significant way would collapse. Israel's enemies would more than likely sieze the opportunity and get busy blotting it off the map. Oh and if you expect "Red Dawn", then the Chinese are going to be on our side I'm curious if there's any way I would be able to rebuild my truck after an E

Not that zombies would get much out of EMP'ing the continent, but in case they did, they'd only need a single large-yield device at 120 miles to hit most of the continent. If you like non-zombie EMP survival fiction, there's a really good (free) book called Lights Out.

I have an Arsenal Saiga. I dunno what's considered a good price for one these days, but I picked it up about a month ago for about $600. The bolt is amazingly smooth. It fires very well. The second time out I was hitting 1/2" groups at 50 yards. And from what I've read, it's also 922-happy out of the box.

i noticed this one http://www.mississippiautoarms.com/index.p...products_id=145 when i ordered my Tapco T6 M4 style stock and pistol grip, but it might be cheaper to get one from a member who's done the conversion. Looks more like a butt stock to me

The rails and bipod look good. One thing tho - when you have your mags stacked like that with one pointing down, you could be in a world of hurt if you have to hit the dirt. I know an AK will still feed and fire with an entire desert in it, but I like to keep mud and dirt out of my mags. You can still stack them for quick changes; just cut a couple of squares of cardboard (wood, metal, ...) to put between the mags so the spacing is right, then tape them together with the lips up on both of them. It's also faster to change mags when you don't have to flip it over. </thread-hijack>