Casp

Niiiiiiiiiiice furnishings, man. That thing is beautiful.

There are plenty of reasons not to like the SKS, but lack-of-reliability is not one of them. As with any AK, there are good ones and there are not-so-good ones. A good SKS is as good as any good AK and a crummy SKS is just as bad as a crummy AK. My beat up Norinco milsurp may not quite be up to match-grade accuracy standards, but it'll always shoot when I want it to. Further more, stripper-clip loading does not suck. If anything it's faster than changing a mag, assuming your clips aren't peened to hell. It is longer and heavier than it needs to be, and the finish is crap, but it's just a

I'll second Jeaux's motion.

What I like is that they have them in .30-06. All plastic sportswear and unmilitary features aside, it's still an AK in .30-06, and that kicks ass. Now let's see if someone can strip one down and mod it to take a BAR magazine!

Yeah, but that kinda kills the point of having an AK for me. My point is, the Cali AR-15s have fixed magazines because no one wants to take off the pistol grip. If you figured out how to make a decent AR without a PG, then it would be legal with the detatchable mag. Even the Robinson M96 is legal here assuming the PG is removed. The Saiga on the other hand doesn't normally have one, and it's layed out basically the same as an M1A or M1 carbine or Mini-14, all of which are legal here. Once you get past the features count, which the Saiga does, the only way it can be banned is if the DOJ ad

Thank you guys for your support. All that said and done though, we should probably get this thread back on topic before it dies.

That flash hider eliminates any need for a bayonet.

Thanks, Bob. I was just being honest. I never would have said it if Toka hadn't, I usually don't reveal that fact on gun boards. I didn't mean to step on anyones toes, I'm sure neither did Toka, but I guess some people just can't tolerate difference. Or the Dutch.

I started using CSM a long time ago at another forum and it's become my main screen name since then. It refers to the old Ekranoplan KM, an experimental Soviet wing-in-ground-effect high speed transport ship-plane-thing from the '60s. It was nicknamed the "Caspian Sea Monster" by US intel when they saw the arial photos, since they had no idea what it was supposed to be. Here's a pretty nice scale model for those who still have no idea what I'm talking about: http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/CaspianSeaMonsterPage.htm Also, many kudos to Tokageko, as I too am like you.

Not that it would be easy to find one, but this "nice theory" still works for AR-15s. Granted the stupid ones with the fixed mags, but AR-15s none the less.

I don't have a massive amount of experience with AKs, but every one I've ever handled did that, and for the longest time I thought they were actually designed to do that.

Hey there, new(ish) to Saiga-12 forums. I hate to bump an old thread, but I just gotta know: If what Steve467 says is true (which I have reason to believe it is, I just checked the list myself and the exact entry reads "Kalashnikov USA American Hunter/Saiga"), then what of the other caliber rifles? I'd really like to get one as a companion to my SKS. In actuality, I'm most interested in the .444 Marlin convertion that Tromix is working in right now, but that's a bit out of my price range at the moment. Yeah, yeah, I know, "get out of Komifornia" but I have too many ties (family and sch