devanchak

Don't listen to 'em Jett... I'm trying to do the same thing you're doing... and having the same challenges. I was working with Brian @ Dinzag; he was going to do the R&D and build me a drop in version (as close to as possible) of exactly what you're doing... that is until the machine shop that was milling a lot of his stuff had some misfortune. Now I'm back to square one with a little more knowledge of the project and design, but no help to get 'er done. Did you ever finish the project? Do you have any pics of the FCG?

This seems to be a fairly popular question... one I've pondered as well. Although I am new to Saigas, and generally don't have a whole lot of experience overall; one thing I've learned through my own research is that your biggest advantage is going to be the ammo you use. It seems that the 308's have a slower twist rate @ 12", meaning that the stock barrel isn't very well suited for projectiles over about 180g as the barrel simply cannot spin the bullet fast enough to effcently stabilize the round. That being said, 500 yd accuracy is still within reach, but with a lighter round. Obviously the

This seems to be a fairly popular question... one I've pondered as well. Although I am new to Saigas, and generally don't have a whole lot of experience overall; one thing I've learned through my own research is that your biggest advantage is going to be the ammo you use. It seems that the 308's have a slower twist rate @ 12", meaning that the stock barrel isn't very well suited for projectiles over about 180g as the barrel simply cannot spin the bullet fast enough to effcently stabilize the round. That being said, 500 yd accuracy is still within reach, but with a lighter round. Obviously the

you're the man Stan... Thanks a million... A little dremmel, several dry fits for clearance, and This should get me back out to the range in no time. I'll try to document and photograph my efforts for future users by any chance would you happen to know of a long-reach FCG for the original 308 trigger location? I really don't want to move my trigger to accommodate the G2 by Tapco thanks again for the bolt tip

Yes I have. It's pretty common on the .308. Looking from the top of the weapon, it will damage the round on your left. It will not allow you to pull the closed bolt back either. If you take the round on the left out and leave the one on the right, it will work. The reason being, some of the bolts 3rd lug had a machining step skipped. You will have to round that lug off. There is a post on here somewhere about it. You will have to search or maybe someone can post it on here for you. I don't have much success with the search engine. If you mark the bolt and ammo with a marker and work t

So I've had my Saiga 308 for about 5 weeks now and put about 50 round through it before noticing on my 3rd outing that the fired round didn't eject, and couldn't be ejected manually... until I first removed the magazine. Only then would the expired round case manually eject from the chamber. After securing the weapon, I checked the magazine and remaining rounds and noticed that the next round in the magazine had a large triangular gouge from the shoulder to about 1/3 down the case. I inspected the chamber and action, but found nothing out of the norm, so I removed teh damaged round, and replac