kamauxx

Good job man. Your last pic looked good. Pics of it completed? I said I was going to do mine myself for literally YEARS... Was always to nervous to do it. I finally sent it off to be done. Since the last picture I also threaded the barrel, added a brake, and refinished it. Unfortunately I used too much tape on the scope so I have to redo that tomorrow. BTW, your pics were the reason I got the magpul handguard. Your rifle looks great! Lol, it was a hacksaw with 2 fine metal blades. The roughness came from me turning the barrel between slices instead of leaving it in one

It's already been crowned, threaded, zero'd, and taken a deer. Lol. Thanks to the helpers and doubters.

Butter knife. Very dull butter knife.

I tried a different lapping compound to see if it was gritty enough to bite the Russian steel. Turned out good enough (for a masturbation job) for it's intended purpose.

I guess after I finish re-re-re building it this weekend I'll see how it shoots. If its wonky I'll buy a crowning kit

Well, Sir, I'll have you know, I actually enjoy masturbation. Dude, if you have no answer there's no reason for you to bother.

Greetings everyone. Been a long time since I've posted here but I'm still a Saiga lover, though my stock is down from 3 to 1. The 1 in question is a 223 that I chopped, filed, sanded on for a couple hours today. I attempted the well document method of using brass machine screws and grinding compound for crowning. After going through 6 brass screws and out of desperation trying out a steel screw (all told at least an hour of "work") I have absolutely zero crown on my barrel. Is this a Saiga issue (harder steel/chrome lined barrel)? Or am I'm some sort of idiot? Don't answer that la

Hello everyone. I'm wondering if anyone makes wood furniture that will fit the S12? I'm interested in blonde, red, and any other nicely stained wood. I've found some vendors but they all say they're made for AK 'XX', so I'm unsure if they will actually fit the S12. Thanks for any help.

I know you don't want to replace the spring, but I think that will be your best option. Gregg at CSS has one for 15 bucks that works great. I had the same problem on my S12 that you described and have since replaced the springs on both my Saigas with the spring from CSS, with great results.

I didn't file the spring, I filed the hole to make the diameter large enough so that the spring would actually go into it.

lol, yea, but does it mean anything? *edit. One thing I notice is the disconnector spring is bigger in diameter and more stiff than the one on my S12. It wouldn't fit the tapco trigger assembly so I've been filing for about 45 minutes!

Okay, gotcha. Yes, it looks like it may be a crescent, or some sort of half circle or something. There's something in it but I can't make out what it's supposed to be.

I'm assuming the barrel trunnion is right before the serial number? If so, it's a triangle with an arrow pointing up. Don't know if that's Arsenal's mark or not.

Run that by me in noob terms.

Alright, here we go.

I'm positive it's .223. I'll take a couple pics and post em up in a few. I don't think it's anything they're doing new NOW, as I bought the rifle used almost a year ago.

The hammer was held on by the pin by the mag release. The trigger was on the other, but was kinda stretched (should have taken a pic). The trigger has like 3" to it inside the receiver. I also discovered 2 extra spot welds that weren't on my S12 conversion, located on the trigger guard plate. This thing musta been made by some night crew that ran out of parts or something. BUT, it made for an easier dissasembly though.

Good day all. Quick observation/question/thing I converted my S12 a few months back, had to do all the drilling etc, came out fine. Today I'm converting my 223. I googled "Saiga 223 conversion" for a refresher, and then I noticed my rifle is different than all the others I found. I don't have separate pins for my conversion. The trigger and hammer are already on the pins they need to be on, so drilling wasn't optional. Instead, I realized that I could just pop out the springs and punch the pins out, with NO DRILLING!!! I didn't know there was any difference between mine and others

That's what I did. But I also lost confidence in it. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, and I probably won't, since I bought the other one from CSS.

I'm glad this is normal, but pissed that I only fired 3 rounds from it today. I'm gonna go see what I can do with it. Thanks everybody! *edit* I just bought a new spring, but I'm going to try to fix this one in the mean time. I'll report back.

Is there a certain way it should be done? I ask because I tried bending it in the opposite direction and it just snapped back to what you see in the picture.

So, I've done my conversion. I noticed when I put the hammer back in last week the spring wasn't sitting in the same place as my other Saiga (223). I figured it would just make the trigger light, and carried on. I took some guns out shooting today and after each round fired the spring would slap itself to the middle of the trigger, failing to reset the trigger and obviously making me have to take the recoil spring out and push it back over. Anyone have any idea why this spring would do this? The shotgun has exactly 3 rounds fired through it. Pics below. This picture is how the springs

Thank you, that's good to know!

Anyone?

Hello everyone. New here. I recently purchased a bunch of parts to do my 223 conversion, and have since decided to convert my 12 instead. I'm wondering if any of you know if the conversion parts are interchangeable. The main part I'm wondering about is a Tromix FCG.