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Thanks for the advice everyone! Well I added a hole, put it all back together and she rocks now! I love it, I just fired off 250 shells made up of Winchester, Federal and Remington value pack ammo and it just runs so well. It had 2 or 3 malfunctions while using the V-Plug, but ran flawlessly with the factory plug set to number 2. Here is a video of it shooting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTejryA3amw This shotgun used to FTE every shot fired from the hip, no matter what type of ammo I was using. A world of difference!

Sorry for taking so long to get back to this thread. My boy was sent home from school with a stomach bug shortly after I posted the OP and I've been taking care of him since. More details about the shotgun. I have put at least 500 rounds through it and it has always done great with buckshot and slugs, but won't reliably cycle bird shot. I would love to be able to go to Walmart, grab a Winchester, Remington or Federal value pack and just shoot off a hundred rounds of it without having frequent failures. My wife would especially like for me to be able to do that as the ammo my Saiga likes is

Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone might have some advice for what I should do next. My Saiga 12 has polished internals and it has the MD Arms puck and V-Plug, yet it still fails to cycle with cheap ammo. I checked for gas ports and I could only see one hole in the very center, but I could feel the edges of two additional holes with a pick. This lead me to believe that my FTE issues were being caused by the gun not getting enough gas and I went to enlarge the hole on the gas block to try to cure the problem. The picture below is what I discovered. As you can clearly see, the hol