super jim

\ I'm not sure I follow: stock barrel 19" + poly choke = 22" Got that part. You traded the poly choke in for what and now the overall lenght with the poly choke is 18.5"? Did you change barrels? Also, what is the miniuml legal lenght for a barrel?

[i paid $575NZ so i think i got it cheap compared to what you guys pay in the states... cheers to meny more post's.. I started out looking for a $250.00 Mossberg so I could keep it easily accessable and not worry about if it got stolen or dirty. Now I will have to buy a gun safe to keep my Saiga-12 and still buy a cheap gun to keep out. Oh well, still a better investment than the stock market

I paid $769 with the AK parts installed. Don't know if that was a good deal or not. The best price I had on one stock with the 19" barrle was $575 out the door.

I just joined the forum today. Never heard of Saiga until Friday. I was surfing the web thinking about getting a 12 ga. pump for home defense and ran across an article on the Saiga 410. Did a searcha and found the Saiga-12 and had to have one. I went by a local gun store on the way home from work. They had one but it was the 26" barrel. I called another gun store but they were sold out since before Christmas. They had a shipment coming in but were all alocated. Then I found a gun show about 90 miles away yesterday and took drive. There I found 3 dealers at the show with Saiga-12's. O