sharkforce

i would probably have to adjust the front post 3 or 4 mm to the right. Iam going to try to straighten the front sight block out with either a big hammer or wrench later today. sight block is straight now verified using string from sight leaf to post. Iput the gas block and barrel in the vise and twisted on the front sight post with a wrench and it budged with not too much effort.

holes drilled with drill press, DONE. that was seriously easy.now on the pinning part... i used soft nails and theyre fully in, however now the front sight is slightly canted to the left!!! what can i do theres no way i can get those nails out now.

how hard is it to drill the barrel with a hand drill with the bulgarian fsb already drilled? I'm not sure how its going to be possible to keep the drill going straight with the curved barrel surface. Pictures:

alright but let me ask again, can i shoot it before pinning the fsb on the barrel? will it come loose or something? Don't shoot it without securing it. Even though it will be very tight on there after shooting 2 magazines the barrel will get hot and the FSB will be loose. I had mine fly off and had to have a cease fire to have the range officer recover it. Best bet is to get a laser bore sighter and get it as close as you can before pinning. alright then i will wait for my boresighter to arrive in the mail.

shoot it and let us know how you think it is without the brake, after taking mine to the range twice now without one, the barrel climb is enough that i bought a brake.

nvm

alright but let me ask again, can i shoot it before pinning the fsb on the barrel? will it come loose or something?

5.45 in progress

is that as heavy as it looks?

can you explain a little more about what the indexing process is? i have my new frontsight block installed and it looks pretty straight on vertical. is there much more to it? i still need to pin or nail it in place, meaning i need to drill out the barrel correct? The holes in the fsb are already drilled but the barrel is not groved or drilled out in those spots. should i shoot it first before that? http://img703.imageshack.us/i/img0497l.jpg/

taken care of. nvm.

i would feel more comfident replacing my saiga FSB with the bulgarian FSB if I could find a video tutorial of the process. I know at least one exists that I watched before I even had my Saiga, but I cant find it online anymore. Has anyone found any video FSB replacement tutorials?

ordered a retaining plate 12/27/2010, still waiting on shipment . should of ordered from CSS, my rifle might fall apart with the tapco plate im currently using edit: is shipping this weekend will get to test fire with the tapco retaining plate until then. edit 2: package received, thank you dinzag arms

ace hardware also carries them for 25 cents each

yep same here, i have 1982 russian 7n6 to feed it at the range.

i purchased from CSS a few weeks ago and picked it up last week at my local ffl. the finish is perfectly fine on everything except for the damn electrostamp that looks aweful.

i think thats just greases in the gas block a patch just took some of that brown stuff off, i had myself worried for a minute though im actually out of patches now i need to go buy some more, i was using optics patches to whipe down the gas tube and block so the barrel cleaning will have to wait

well hang on a minute, what does this look like to you

Run a couple of patches with CLP through the barrel and observe what comes out on the patch. Also, does the gas block look good? Since the barrel and the gas block are both chrome-lined, they are not likely to have rust, even if the gas tube does. the gas block looks fine

one more thing, did i get the handguard properley seated? the first time i put it on the front end diddnt look right as if it wasnt grabbing the gas tube. now I think i have it on right but want to make sure before i screw it down. http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3609/img0472fj.jpg

No. Sounds like some drunk factory worker fired the wrong ammo in your gun to test? Anyhow, if that's the only place with rust, I wouldn't give it another thought. Clean it up and keep rolling, or buy a new gas tube for $10-$15 from someone on the forum. But weren't you going with a standard AK gas tube anyhow? yeah it doesnt really matter the part will be replaced soon, I Just thought it wasn't a good sign to be finding rust already in a part of the weapon. from what i can tell that is the only place with rust, cant see any in the barrel but its very difficult to see down.

I field stripped my new rifle completely for the first time today, its never been fired by me and hasn't been presumably since it left Russia and i was shocked to see what looks like rust in the gas tube! there's little specks of rust like that all through the tube, and im not very happy about seeing rust in a brand new gun. i'm thinking of taking a bore brush and scrubbing the inside of that tube with CLP. is this normal for saigas?

i would get the Bushnell trs-25 3 moa it was reviewed by nutnfancy on his utg sidemount with good results. http://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-Trophy-TRS-25-1xRed-Riflescope/dp/B00200E0HM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293560551&sr=8-1 or the primary arms micro red dot 3 moa. which has good reviews on the ar15 board. http://primaryarms.com/product.sc;jsessionid=53C8DD7F14157411BCEE0F515726A05E.qscstrfrnt02?productId=402&categoryId=398

sheesh was about 296 for me from aim

mine says "extreme spread of impacts when firing four bullets at 100-m range (accuracy of fire) is 126 mm." also a legion mercury hermes.