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  1. I'd say a key to the Saiga-20 gauge working correctly is getting shell that is front heavy enough.. A lot of 20 gauge hulls are much more back heavy than comparable 12 gauge hulls which results in very poor ejection.. I'm currently of the opinion that Russian ammo is slightly differently shaped, which could explain the lack of reliability that the 20ga shotguns tend to have even with factory magazines. I think we finally got it right on the new model. This is a set of older videos from 2011 that I put together just now.. The video is kinda low quality but you have to understand
  2. I realized I had not updated the page in some time. Magazines are at heat treatment and have been for about two and a half weeks. Should be ready inside of the next few weeks. Springs are on order and should arrive around the same time as the magazines.. Springs used are a slightly shortened AK-47 magazines spring. So if you want extras in the future they are easy to come by.
  3. For financial stuff dave ramsey is normally spot on, with some exceptions, I think used cars are not a very good value anymore, repairs are more and more complicated and expensive.. And since fewer people view new cars as status symbols there are fewer people buying new and selling at two years.. 160-200K miles on a pickup is normally about used up, I know people that go to 300K miles but they are normally throwing a LOT of money at repairs to keep it that long.. My brother has a 05' F150 with 90K miles on it and it has issues just related to age, switches acting up, limited slip not work
  4. Seems like it is going for about $250 a can on gunbroker. The issue is going to be shipping it. Basically it is just slightly more expensive than .223 steel case... Most of the guys that bought it stacked it pretty deep, which is why even after several years it is still around in quantity. Eventually it will become rare, but I doubt it will gain in price like 7.62x39 steel core, which was going for 50 cents to $1 a round within 10 years of the ban, at the same time regular ball ammo was selling for 10 cents a round.. It has already been four years and 7n6 has gone from 17 cents to about 24
  5. Pufgun magazines are commercial products made in russia. Think Russian Pro-mag or Tapco.. They are basically $10 in russia. They are not using a very high glass fiber content, probably less than tapcos. Probably a little higher than SGM. At present I either need to redo the tooling on the steel Saiga .308, I knew it was getting close to the end of its service life and last batch one of the large pieces had a corner wipe off about 20 parts from the end. I probably have a year or two supply, back in the boom days of 2011 it would have been a months supply.
  6. Google translate result. INSTRUCTION for adjustment to products "Saiga - 410", "Saiga - 20", "Site - 12" 1. Install the store on the product. d. check the operation of the latch of the MAPAZIN: under the influence of its spine the rear magazine of the spring it must pass under the support surface of the hook until it stops in the rear surface B of the wall of the Mara. 3. In case of failure of the latch to the surface B, blacken the surface A with a simple pencil and cut it with a flat file until the traces of the pencil are removed, without covering the plane. For the file, firstly, attac
  7. I have a feeling that MD arms has a high licence fee so odds are it was a no go anyway... Like I would be ok with something like a 5-10% license fee since I am getting a concept not actual plans since it was designed as poly and it would need to be converted to a stamping, we would probably have about 5 months into the tool up, and then another month to address issues found after first production, assuming that there is nothing that dead stops the project.. I imagined from the start that MD arms wants a larger percentage, I never got to that point at all since the conversation basically never
  8. You might want to get on selling your 10 round mags... Sometime next month or shortly after the value is likely to drop... Just saying.
  9. Ian said Semi-auto at that point.. Which is incorrect I think.. Don't they make the 930, maybe he meant more that they are not really known for it?
  10. Uncompressed springs should be about 1/3 to 1/2 longer than the length of the magazine body.. If the magazine is 10 inches long the spring should be between 13.5' AND 15'... springs can be shorter, but generally the ratio of 1/3-1/2 of body length works pretty decent... Some of the russian magazines go double the length of the magazine, that is past ideal and you are just hauling extra spring coils that cannot help you.
  11. they dont need to sell in the volum that polymer molds require.... Correct.. We make tooling in house so our cost for a tooling set is a lot lower than someone who has to buy it, and we do the metal cutting and forming vs needing to have an injection molding house do the work (plastic injection machines are big and expensive).. So lower cost of development but higher cost per part, Basically my costs flat line at around 1000 parts, they don't go down because the cost is the time it takes a person to insert and remove the part from the press. One question I have with the photo of th
  12. One thing that is interesting is that the importer is Tristar.. They tend to supply lots of small shops, so that should help the market grow a little.
  13. We have not spoken of it other than a couple posts.. I basically wanted to know what he wants per mag for a fee. I can figure up my costs quickly to see what is on the table. My brother is unenthusiastic about it.. He thinks the shapes are possible but thinks it is going to take a lot to get everything dialed in and will have a high production loss rate. Currently I have three active projects and two mid sized gun makers asking for my time.. Things are good but very busy.
  14. I bought from them a few times.. I think they don't have anyone to call in when they get over run.
  15. I own one 20rd drum and I have used it three or four times in the 8 years I have owned it.. Not three or four range trips, but three or four loadings.. I just don't like the way the shotgun handles with a drum.. 8 round sticks handle much better.
  16. Personally, I hope we are using every tool at our disposal - with absolutely no holds barred. Obama's 'window dressing' efforts to appear to deal with terrorists from a distance failed miserably, and created the conditions for ISIS to organize and flourish. Appearances be damned. We have work to do. It is more about actually getting the target, and not providing anything to be used as propaganda. Drone bombings over the last few years often missed their targets, people would be marked as having been eliminated when it was some nobody that got killed.. I think at least a few
  17. Basically this is being used instead of drone strikes.. Which is probably best since killing dozens of people that are not terrorists to get one terrorist is not good for the overall perception.
  18. I think a lot of it was that the initial interest was novelty and the low prices from 2003-2005, for awhile there a Saiga-12 cost about the same as a single shot break action.. When the base gun passed $550 it got outside of a lot of peoples price range... Also there was heavy promotion of the "combat shotgun" due in a large part to three gun matches becoming popular, but the gun games have severely limited box magazine shotguns in the past 5+ years so they have largely fallen out of favor. Another issue is that most people buying into the Saiga-12 start out with promag stick magazines
  19. I don't think they sell live or frozen bait. Dicks is a sporting shop only if your sports involve a ball. They barely have fishing gear or guns and their boating section was kinda lame.. I think most Dicks stores actually run at a loss.. Most of the big sporting goods stores actually lose money every single day they operate.
  20. By all means please contact your reps that you don't support this change at all.. But also don't give yourself high blood pressure over something that is not a done deal yet.
  21. From the time he started his first cut to the end of his last one 80+ rifles rolled off the line... Hey if he wants to take a $500 piece of metal, and make it worthless, I'm sure gun makers still have some billets laying around to make another one. If the dude wants to buy some magazines to bash flat with a hammer I think I could choke down my pride and take his money so he can be stupid. The only way his actions help reduce violence is if he was intending to do harm to people, so if he feels he made a difference he is probably better off without a gun.
  22. Well it is an order to complete a review of the process to ban them and to allow public comments on it... Not exactly a ban. I think its a big fart in the wind.. It could also result in opening the NFA registry to add them and other NFA items..
  23. Having worked in both FL and MI a fair amount, Florida feels a good bit colder below 50 degrees, like 30 feels more like 5 or 10 because the humidity compromises the insulation and soaks in. On the positive it is generally short lived.
  24. Fully machined makes a lot of sense to me.. You get a few swiss machines and a bar stock magazine and the machine makes parts day and night with occasional refills of tooling and bar stock. The three bays across the lot from me is all swiss machines.. I've watched and the owner has been away for as long as three days and the machines are still cranking away.
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