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I wouldn't trust Kalinka, as I always hear horrid things about them. If you still want an east bloc optic, try East Wave products. I got my PK-AS-S red dot from there for a very good price and it has performed flawlessly (and they provided batteries and English instructions for zeroing without me asking). http://www.eastwave.ca/products/scopes/posp8x42vd.html http://www.eastwave.ca/products/scopes/posp2.5-5x24.html http://www.eastwave.ca/products/scopes/posp4x24v.html Those should be what you're looking for, cheers.

I have a PK-AS-V which I got from EastWave products for $318 (including shipping etc). While it has no zoom function, it works EXTREMELY well and has maintained an accurate zero for sometime. EastWave is great too; that PK-AS they send you includes batteries as well as English instructions. Pic related (my Saiga)

My S308 with PK-AS-A red dot optic and Surefire mag. Not allowed to convert it until I leave California. I really like the way the optic looks on it.

lol. No.

It takes Wolf ammo just fine too, so I imagine Herters will work.

Perhaps another stupid question but, is replacing the stock of my Saiga with an ACE stock that comes with a pistol grip illegal in California? I would assume so, but I talked to an LEO and he said that it's a "gray area". A gray area huh. Nice. God I hate this state.

Iron Sights on Airport Rd in Oceanside gave me a military discount. I think it may have been more. Also, Camp Pendleton's pistol range is supposedly 4 bucks--gonna check it out next weekend.

Outstanding input gentlemen, thank you. Part of me still wants a red dot "just to be different", but then again the recoil is such that it takes a comparatively long time to reacquire a target--compared to firing from the Trijicon ACOG RCO that our service rifles use, which are also in my opinion relatively poor choices for the much-ballyhooed "combat marksmanship" portion of the Marine Corps marksmanship course of fire. Given that, I'll probably check out a PSO scope, though I've heard the tolerances on them are a bit rough (a few clicks moves the crosshair a huge amount of space).

Hello everyone, I recently picked up a SAIGA 308 16 3/4" carbine as my first gun. My main reason for getting one was that A) It's California, and its reputation as a quality AK variant. As an aside, I laughed heartily at the poor English translation of the owner's manual. So on the way back from a gunshow in Ontario (where I was probably stupid and bought a thousand rounds of Wolf ammo for the ungodly-low price of $304), I decided to stop by one of Southern California's indoor shooting ranges, just to break my rifle in. Unfortunately, I was informed that indoor shooting ranges do not allo