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Darth AkSarBen

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  1. Now, can you imagine a .308 winchester necked down to 6.5 mm? All you would have to do is re barrel the .308 Saiga with the 6.5mm Creedmoor barrel/chamber. Yes there is one, and even Hornady makes factory ammunition for this necked down .308 round. The brass being so similar, you could probably use the same magazines of the .308 Saiga. It's slimmer, faster, and has excellent BC, and it's superior to the 6.5 Grendel for velocity. Load it down and you have near the Grendel's top end for speed. Load it normal or up and you really push that 6.5mm round out there! http://www.hornady.com/sto
  2. I wonder how the .308 Saiga, rebarreld to 6.5 Creedmoor would hold up? That would take a simple exchange of barrels and head spacing and then you would use the same magazine for the .308, since it is simply the .308 necked down to 6.5mm. Article here: http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/hornady-introduces-new-65-creedmoor-cartridge/ DMPS arms makes an AR already in 6.5 Creedmoor from an email I just received from them.
  3. Yes, the 6.5 Grendel would DEFENITELY find favor herein the U.S. It would be an excellent deer rifle. I think the in-accuracy of the AK-47 stems mostly from the cartridge. From what i've read in my relaoding manual the 7.62 x 39 is not a very accurate round. Some calibers are better than others for accuracy. The 6mm BR is just about tops. The 6.5 Grendel is one of the most accurate cartridges out there. The 6.8 SPC is also a very accurate caliber, along with .308 Winchester. I look at the way the rifle fires. The bolt is LOCKED in position and the firing pin strikes the primer.
  4. I've got so much brass right now, I'm still working on the "once fired" LOL. I have 2 bags of 50 Winchester new brass that I haven't even started on. I catch all the brass in my little box affair that I shoot from. You are right about the special marks on civilian rifles in Russia. In the 7.62 x 39 they have made a chamber-neck ream that when the bullet is fired it forms kind of a 2 step shoulder on the case. Most say it is re-loadable. It is not found on the AK-47 found in this country as kit form, but from the Saiga (new) rifles from Izhmash, in Russia. It makes the case identifia
  5. Here is the picture of some .223 I shot out of the Saiga I have. Never mind the end of the mouth being dinged, that comes out quickly to "round" when you reload: The .308 / 7.62 NATO is the same. BTW both my rifles exhibit dual designations. The Saiga IS 7.62 x 51 / .308 Winchester. Use a small piece of car door guard you can get at an auto supply store and it seemed to eliminate nearly all of my brass dings of marks perpendicular to the brass. The typical .308 rounds from my rifle after the buffer. NOTE, that very small indentation on the left ones is insignificant in reloadi
  6. I change to a nice light brown configuration. It makes it easier to differentiate between the black Saiga .308 and the .223. This is the .223 BTW.
  7. The Saiga .308 is NOT what I would grab to shoot at deer sized targets out at 400+ yards. That is really asking a lot of bolt action rifles (inherently superior for accuracy) to step up and perform. For semi-automatic rifles, "put them down at great distances" the 6.5 Grendel is the caliber of choice. Starts out slower than some of the other calibers (Feet/sec), but because of the thinner sectional bullet / weight ratio, it makes up for it in spades down range. I think 6.8mm Rem. SPC in a 130 gr bullet would also do quite well in Semi-Auto as that bullet in a BT configuration has a very
  8. LOL good point, Azrial! Considering that I would assume a lot of Saiga buyers simply buy the rifle, a few boxes of $4.00/20 ammo and use those piss poor iron sights and wonder why they can't shoot 50 cent pieces out at 100 yards. Also, even though it's chrome lined, I like to think that breaking in a barrel has some quality imporovements, which most "new" users will hardly do. BTW I have shot quite a few 3" groups getting things kind of dialed in as well. I don't post them.. *grin* Point being it is very capable of some lousy groups by a big margin. Boils down to better sighting and
  9. Yes, the OAL is supposed to be 2.740... on that particular load. I use Lee Factory Crimp die for the finish of the reloading. It is a strange affair that the bullet actually comes up and out of the die and as you push down the sides squeeze in and form a uniform crimp. Getting consistent crimp is important as is the the importance that each bullet's brass start out at the same length. I do use magnum primers, even on the extruded powders. You normally use magnum powder for ball (spherical) powder as it is harder to ignite. I do have some Remington 9 1/2 primers (standard LR primers) I'l
  10. Good shooting Mav!!

  11. My Saiga .308 IS sub MOA, with several different loads. Pizza Hut box at 100 yards, 5 shots with Remington 150 gr SP Core LOKT bullets. Benchmark group, 100 yards: maybe a little closer...... This is the Pizza Hut box target, just a little bit closer view of the 5 rounds at 100 yards. More handload targets, this time using Hodgdon Varget: I've got more sitting behind me on the desk that I haven't even taken a picture of.....yet. Don't tell me that the Saiga is not a sub MOA rifle, I'm not going to believe you. It is what it is, and once the right
  12. How about some entrepreneur individaul building AKs with the 6.5 Grendel barrel and receiver?? I saw a youtube video of how to take an empty 7.62 x 39 shell, and water hydraulic sresize it withing seconds to a 6.5 Grendel. It's on youtube in a search. NOW that would make the brass for the 6.5 Grendel pretty affordable and abundant, as long as you get brass and not steel cases. I would think someone making the AK in a 6.5 Grendel caliber would really rake in the money, providing they sold it modestly for a profit without scalping.
  13. I can't imagine a spot in Kalifornia that is open enought to have large varmints, unless you consider cougars and bears "varmints" I have shot coyotes before, back in Nebraska, with a Ruger M77 in .270 Winchester. I've also shot coyotes with my .338 Winchester magnum years ago, but it is really not at it's best as a varmint rifle.
  14. I see that, RoughRider666. The barrel could be removed and a new barrel put in place and the barrel pin drilled into place after head spacing. How would the magazines work? I know Alexander Arms sells a rifle in 6.5 Grendel and it's even on Bud's Gunshop (and others) with a 10 round magazine. The real catch would be to have a good reliable magazine for the 6.5 Grendel that would lock up in the 7.62 X 39 AK-47 body. Still, for Close Quarter Combat, CQC, The 6.8 SPC would perform quite admirably even against the 6.5 Grendel. I do believe that the Grendel will outperform the 6.8mm Rem
  15. Nearly all things mechanical have their ups and downs in production and actual use. M-16 rifles started out without the forward assist button on the side, until enough soldiers died in Viet Nam to re-design the rifle to have this feature AND to instruct the troops of the importance of keeping this rifle clean. Stoner's rifle is an accurate rifle, no doubt, but at what cost? Tight tolerances make for more accuracy, and less forgiving in less than ideal environmental conditions. There are reports of our troops having engaged the enemy both in Iraq and Afghanistan with weapon failures on the
  16. 10-4 on the limited funds!! That's one of the reasons I have 2 Saigas, that, and their reliability. Even if I sold them both for something else, it would be a 2 fer 1 deal, and then I'd probably have to toss in some cash to boot. The AK action is undoubtedly one of the most reliable systems out there. Now if Robinson Arms and others make their rifles with some general idea of doing the same with design features, that would be nice. My interest in Robins Arms was their firing system and that they came in 6.8mm Remington SPC. I know....the ammo ain't cheap, but when I handload, that negat
  17. I've shot 110 grain hand loads out of my Saiga .308. Function fine, and really put the kerbosh on the gallon jugs!! I didn't load much of them because I did not find a group/powder combo that I really liked. I think 110, 125, 130 would make some great varmint rounds. FMJ probably won't open up for varmints they way bullets designed for the do.
  18. I like the HK 416 as well. Very nice rifle. I like what Barrett is doing with their piston system. Barrett is a bit pricy though.
  19. The M4 used by our troops WOULD be considered havey professional use. Some troops in Afghanistan recently had a fire fight in which their M4s jammed or quit working on them. There have been many instances of either the 5.56 not being able to effectively stop the assailant, Jihadist in this regards, or the absolute utter failure of the rifle to keep working. A battle rifle needs to be both reliable AND effective in it's knock down punch. Personally, I don't think the 5.56 has what it takes. So, there comes a time where one must decide exactly what rifle is worth betting his life on. Some
  20. Volkov, I too like it but not only because of the action but because of what CALIBER it can come in. I have a Saiga in .223 Remington/5.56 NATO and .308 Winchester, both converted that work quite well. (see avatar that is the .308). However this is a Kalashnikov action rifle, made in America that has the 6.8mm Remington SPC chambering. This cartridge is like the 7.62 x 39 Soviet in that it will "thump" you hard when hit by it, and out at pretty respectable distances. It is superior to the Soviet x39 round in ballistics and also Superior to the 5.56 NATO round REF: http://en.wikipedia.org
  21. Thanks, Frank, corrected in original post. The other side:
  22. Stumbled across this the other day and found it interesting and rather unique. Robinson Arms have designed a rifle around the Kalashnikov action, making it very simple and very reliable. It comes in 5.56 NATO, 7.62 x 39 and MOST interesting is the 6.8mm Remington SPC round. I know that this acton is not pattened, so I can't imagine why someone hasn't made this up before. Looks like they have several nice features. And, althought this rifle doesn't start with the name "AK" it is based on it's actions so I thought it might be appropriate here. It is defenitely different than the AR version desig
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