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a magwell with a drum would be amazing! Please keep us posted!

buy a box of Silver Bear shotgun shells. Load the top of your mag with one of them. The steel/zinc coated shell won't deform.

shiny smooth

first 2 digits of my serial is 08, bought 6 months ago from classicarms after the deal was posted here a while ago.

Just wondering if this has happened to anyone before...I was out shooting today when i noticed suddenly the saiga was short stroking. I pretty much use it only for destroying clays, and use exclusively walmart 100 rd value pack federals. It has always shot them without a problem. The only other rounds this has ever seen was a 5 box of slugs, and 3 5 rnd boxes of wallyworld 00 buck during the first month of break-in. So, i pulled the gas plug, no debris, looked fine, ports unobstructed. Strange. Pulled the rear cover off, pulled the spring, and pulled the bolt out, and noticed something was

If you've read any of my previous threads, I was pretty much about ready to give up on my saiga. I picked it up for $450, so it wasn't a serious financial investment, and rampant FTE's had me frustrated. So what better way to see if its worthy to stay in my arsenal by giving it a torture test to see if it holds up? My FTE problems were 100% solved by the KA puck, but to make sure it will go bang when i need it, i needed a bit more convincing. My current setup is simply a stock saiga, Promag 10 rounder, tapco intrafuse, and KA puck. I've been firing 1-2 boxes of wallyworld federal value pac

she's an AK. My cleaning method? pull gas cam, empty soot. remove receiver cover, spray with clp. done. repeat every 5000 rounds. EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_uYxVM-gGQ The process is EXACTLY the same, same teardown, same parts, just expect your bolt/barrel to be much larger. No removing of the gas system in front either, just pen it and blow it out.

Roger, in my situation, i found i needed to unscrew my gas cam a LOT to get it to function correctly. With the cam screwed all the way in on my gun, it would come a quarter turn shy of position 2. So the furthest in it would lock in was position 1. I would then back it out to position 2, and have FTE's all day long. Then, as suggested in my thread, I decided to back it out to 1 again, then out to 2. SO, the total sequence was -> Screw all the way in back out to 1 back out again to 2 back out yet again to 1 back out one more time to 2 That completely fixed my gun and now she's li

Yep, blame the Olympic Arms OA93 for that ban. Also, it would be good to read the text of the law itself, to confirm that it's just steel that's banned for use. Bi-metal jackets will cause quite the sparks too; found that out shooting my homemade spinner targets at night...looked like the 4th of july! EDIT: Seems like the bimetal jackets in the wolf is a steel jacket with a copper coating and a lead core, so unless you're shooting the full copper jacket wolf a ban on bullets containing steel would effect wolf as well, unless the ban is for steel core ammo only. Definitely look into the

This worked very well today. When I pulled the cam out yesterday, I noticed there was a blob of buildup on the beveled edge near the end. I scraped that off, cleaned/scrubbed the cam clean, and went to the range. Slight improvement, but still FTE, 2 out of each of the first 2 mags (40%). Then, I screwed the cam in as far as it would go. It bottomed out about 1/4 turn away from locking into the 2 position...the tightest position it would click into is 1. I usually unscrew back to 2, and it has been failing. SO, I unscrewed it even further, back out to 1 again, then again to 2. Result: 1

yeah, i've seen those, but it's still fun to shoot things haha. Zombie jugs are getting boring.

Interesting topic. I am headed out to the range tomorrow with my saiga 12 19", and would be more than willing to sacrifice an old pair of jeans to stick some meat in and shoot with various loads to settle this debate with a little more proof than speculation. I personally think the birdshot won't really do enough damage to kill, so in my gun I keep 2 3/4" Hornady TAP 00 Buckshot. Strategic placement of bookcases and cabinets set up backstops for lines of fire I have set up in my house. In the event i miss a backstop (which is physically impossible from my set up lines of fire, but who kno

So, I took my saiga out to the range, along with a 100 box of wallyworld Federal 7 1/2. She spit every shell beautifully. I took it home, and heard rattling in the gas piston, so I opened it up and dumped out a bunch of black soot, and the piston also fell out. I figured it'd be a good opportunity to go ahead and scrub that out too, so i took the brush and cleaned the gas tube out, and gave the piston a wipedown with some hoppes since it was dirty and there was some weird banding on the sides of the piston. 2 days later, I head back to the range with the saiga, and the same ammo. no more

oh don't get me wrong, it's definitely a proven magazine system, but it's far from the most optimum. Soldiers lining up for battle worked for decades during the revolutionary period too, but it wasn't exactly the best idea. Also, magwell type setups are much faster than rock and lock systems on the S12; a huge factor for us race gun guys. The magwell they offer here is great, was planning on picking up one this week anyway, but it's kind of disappointing it means no more MD20 for me if i decide to put one on. Hopefully VanKiller can dream something up soon =)

yikes, scratch this idea. Just went over to my machinist buddy's place. He suggested many other way simpler mechanisms to accomplish the same thing. They'll all work on stick mags but when he pulled out his MD20 it's glaringly obvious there's no clearance for anything at under there =/