RoughRider666

1) NO. the Saiga's are based on the AK-100 series, which are based off of the AK-74, also making them non interchangable with original AK-47/AKM rifles. The Front Trunnions are the same basic shape, but thats there the similarities end. 74 trunnions use countersunk dimple rivets in all holes, instead of just the rear holes of the '47. The rear trunnions are different all together with completely different hole patterns. 2) the bolt "stem" on the original AK-47 is much thicker than the 74's, not allowing them to be swapped between '47 & '74 carriers 3) Why would you want to change

+1 yeah that looks like a Vepr rifle not a Saiga

some pix would be VERY helpful, im a visual kinda guy...just sayin...

its an ak-builder flat bent in an ak-builder bender... his flats/tools are supposed right on par with Russia from all my research.

Yeah, but its a ROMY G. most of those rifles were never even issued and sat in an armory somewhere and were demilled when the Soviet Union fell apart, so in theory the Romy G's are NOS and still brandnew! the Barrel, boltface & piston litterally had NEVER been shot and absolutely ZERO use and wear!

well that's a build, there could be a whole host of problems with it, has he actually fired it or does it just seem rough, because all the romanian guns are rough as hell when new and it doesn't affect function at all yeah we fired it the otherday and its super accurate, but about every second or third shot it hangs up on the hammer and doesnt feed, and randomly when the BCG gets all the way to the back, it sometimes wants to jump up like its coming out of the receiver. I havent had it back out since we "reprofiled/pollished" the hammer... is it a home build? with the recoil spri

well that's a build, there could be a whole host of problems with it, has he actually fired it or does it just seem rough, because all the romanian guns are rough as hell when new and it doesn't affect function at all yeah we fired it the otherday and its super accurate, but about every second or third shot it hangs up on the hammer and doesnt feed, and randomly when the BCG gets all the way to the back, it sometimes wants to jump up like its coming out of the receiver. I havent had it back out since we "reprofiled/pollished" the hammer... is it a home build? with the recoil spri

well that's a build, there could be a whole host of problems with it, has he actually fired it or does it just seem rough, because all the romanian guns are rough as hell when new and it doesn't affect function at all yeah we fired it the otherday and its super accurate, but about every second or third shot the BCG hangs up on the hammer and doesnt feed, and randomly when the BCG gets all the way to the back, it sometimes wants to jump up like its coming out of the receiver. I havent had it back out since we "reprofiled/pollished" the hammer...

you can see if you look close a plastic triangle on the back of the receiver, but i too am interested in how it is mounted the resolutution on the current monitor that im using sucks really bad and im not able to see it lol

thats a good point, but my friend has a recent Romy G build that seems like it doenst wanna cycle too well and the BCG hangs up on the hammer a LOT even after I helped him pollish the shit out of the G2 hammer in effort to give it the same profile of the Romanian hammer...

How'd you mount the stock? I thought Vepr's were a slant cut receiver? nice job though, its looks great!

All I've ever shot through my 5.45 is the milsurp 7n1 53gr bullets. How does the 74 react with the heavier bullets?

Good point with the springs. On the a side note though, im not sure if they were just press photos to show off or anything, but I have seen pix of Russian soldiers with Aimpoint, EOtech & Trijicon optics and rail systems and in some instances what looks to be magpul, vltor or US Palm accessories mounted on newer AK 100/200 series rifles...

And exactly how is that supposed to work? by not allowing the BCG to go all the way back and the shock of sandwiching the buffer between the BCG and trunnion can cause stress cracks on the rear trunnion rivet holes... Fact or fiction, im not willing to take a chance and find out... A logical thought process tells me that a recoil spring would be better than an "added" piece that wasnt meant to be there in the first place. If the Russians thought they were necessary, they would have been part of the original design... just sayin...

Wolf JHP's work well... you should see what they do to a boar!!!

lately ive been hearing all this talk about the "extra power" recoil spring by Wollf and im wonding what all the hype is about... I hear things like, "it reduces recoil and wear and tear on the rifle by not allowing your BCG to slam into the rear trunnion as hard or at all for that matter." the way I see it, the soviets designed these rifles as robust as possible and im quite sure that the first AK-47 that rolled off the assembly line and issued to the Red Army back in 1949 still functions as flawlessly today as the day it was built...unless it was run over by a tank or something lol.

are you absolutely sure about that?

Should make an AOW with that lil guy and put a short stock on it to make the recoil more managable lol

yeah, cause you need windage adjustments on a shotgun!!!!!!!!! that blows!!!

WOW, that makes no sense! WTF would they pin one and crimp the other?...then again, to convert to a correct RPK, I dont think i'd need to remove the gasblock as RPK didnt use accessory or bayonet lugs to my knowledge. The carry handle is my next concern though...im not really sure how thats mounted because ive never seen one in person...

just leave it alone and utilize it as a drain hole if your gun ever get dropped in the water or you decide to swim with it...just sayin...

with the AES10-B's possibly drying up in the near furture, im forced to look into other options. I really want an RPK in the worst way! If you took the long barreled Vepr with the 23.5" Barrel as a starting point, what else would be needed to do to install the correct RKP bipod and carry handle? The stock im not worried about, as I was thinking about using the internal receiver block from ACE and mounting Magpul's PRS stock as it looks like a modernized version of the old soviet clubbed foot. handguards as I understand are standard AK/AKM so that isnt an issue. I can do most of the labor my

or a Saiga .223 VS an AR.......... either way accuracy doenst matter one way or the other if you're ever being shot at! Far as im concerned, a slingshot is accurate enough when the stones are flying in my direction...lol The point im trying to make here is that both of these are COMBAT, BATTLE, ASSAULT (whitchever you prefer) rifles that were meant to perform a certain job and both do them exceptionally well. Hense the term(s) "combat effective" or "combat accurate" . Off the bench or plink shooting accuracy is just an added bonus... Keep that in mind when the SHTF...

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so wheres the best place to get one right now cause I really want one...BAD