Improvisor

I guess this may be Red Star FCG specific. The saftey just wont clear the disconnector if it's installed last. Oh well, the eclips are holding fine, and they're easy enough to pop on and off if I need to.

How do you guys get the Shepherd's Hook replacement plate to work in the Saiga? It seems to only work in rifles whose safety can be installed after everything else. My safety has to be in place before the trigger group goes in. I'm using e-clips right now.

Just got my Red Star adjustable trigger group today, and figured I'd post this as a warning for newbies who do a search on this forum. The instructions said that the trigger was pre-adjusted for a two-stage, 4 pound pull. After installing the trigger group, I realized that not only was the trigger not adjusted to two-stage, the hammer didn't even come close to touching the disconnector. In other words, the hammer wasn't even held by the disco after the bolt came back and the trigger was still held. This causes the hammer to drive upwards as the bolt returns home, either leading to full-aut

Alright. I made the hex-key tang sight thing. Keep in mind that this whole thing was done, including painting, in about 10 minutes. So, it's butt ugly, but could be made to look better with some fininishing and a different attachment method. You'll probably need to cut the short side of the key to let it clear the stock screw hole. First i coated the tang with a little oil. I made the base by sticking some Magnum Steel (the stick stuff that you knead together) on each side of the hex-key and putting the key in the slot on the tang. I applied a little more Magnum around the top and en

Cobra, You're just full of good ideas man. A little file work should take care of it. Is the M-1 sight about the same height as your original sight? Tokageko, Went to ACE today for some Loctite, and stopped in the small parts section. The small steel blocks I was thinking of are called "Steel Keys". They had one for $1.00 that sits perfectly in the groove of the stock tang, other than needing to be shortened a bit. It could be attached (drill and tap the tang or epoxy it in place) to the tang, and have a small section of Picatinny rail epoxied to the top of it. This would allow the

Cobra, Great info. I plan on converting mine next week. I had a similar idea about the sights. I thought about taking a spare Yugoslavian SKS rear sight I've got and fitting it to fit in the original rear sight base. It has flip up nights sights. I thought about filing down the non-night sight part and attatching a washer to use as a ghost ring. This would give me a forward mounted ghost ring with the ability to flip up notched night sights with the flick of a finger. But, like I said, I don't care for the peep sight being that far away from the eye.

Hmmm. Could an AR flip up sight be made to fit the tang? Maybe attach a small block to the tang with a section of a picatinny rail on top, should sit right in the groove of the tang. That should let a rail mounted AR sight sit right on there. Not sure about the height, but it looks pretty close, and unless it's too tall, it could be easily adjusted by using a taller block. If I'm not mistaken, Ace sells little blocks of metal that would fit right in there, they're in the little parts boxes, I'll check tommorrow. Also, if you had a tubular stock. Clearview Invest sells a picatinny rai

Haven't got to test it yet, just did it last night. Hopefully tommorrow. Got to get some loctite first, the nuts jar loose just working the action. Maybe try loc-nuts. I imagine accuracy will improve because of the longer sight radius, and the fact that I'm more familiar with peep sights than blade sights. I've got an XB3 air rifle (with a peep sight made from a .22 scope ring ), it's an ak-type rifle, that has a front sight post about half the diameter of the saiga's, I'm probably going to switch them out, and get one of William's twilight apertures to put in the peep, or one of those a

Hi all. Bought myself a Saiga .223 a couple of weeks ago. Got it for $275 OTD with siderail scope mount and an extra mag. The first thing I wanted to do was add a peep sight, but Krebs doesn't seem to be selling thier reciever mounted ones right now, so I decided to improvise. First I tried a Mojo style one, by grinding a groove in the original rear sight and JB-Welding a washer in place. This helped a lot, but it wasn't even close to the real thing. Then I started tring to figure out a way to add one to the reciever cover, which would be easy, but would modify the reciever cover and wou