nalioth

I've contacted him today, and asked him to look at this thread.

Please read my first response. I DID answer your question. You'll have to measure (mike is short for 'use a micrometer on it') your barrel and choose the gas block that has the corresponding ID. Krebs lists the internal measurements for the two sizes. If neither is right, you may have to a) turn your barrel down or shim it up or c) go with the clamp on style.

Mike is in the process of moving house. I hope he returns to normalcy soon.

You don't have to cut your receiver. You can relieve the bottom of the trigger hook (that has no receiver slot) just enough so it releases the hammer. This will also limit overtravel, if you don't take too much off.

I've replaced a couple, and like he says, it aint real fun (unless you've got 3 hands).

Sorry for the late response, I've been out of town on business. Until you fully assemble a working firearm, you are fine during a modification. Just make sure your magazine and its 3 countable parts do not put you over the 10 foreign parts limit when you insert it at the range / wherever.

Here is a nice site on the cleaning kit and how to use it: http://www.gunsnet.net/Linx310/toolkit.htm

Those aren't ACE clamp on front sites. Those are custom gas blocks from Krebs Custom. You'll have to mike your barrel and see if those will fit. These are the ACE clamp on front sights. They clamp on to any gas block. All clickable

No, the FBMG mags are not imported/sold with or made by Saiga. The moment YOU insert a FBMG mag into YOUR Saiga, is the instant YOUR rifle falls under the 922r. You can order a dozen and have them in the safe, but until you 'insert' them ('assemble a firearm', according to the alphabet gang) you don't have any 922r issues. You and your buddy can be at the range with identical unmodified Saiga .308s. There can be dozens of FBMG 20 rounders in y'alls range bag. If you have a FBMG 20 rounder inserted and he has a stock Saiga 10 rounder, he has no 922r issues, and you do.

Yep, it's just peened in. Be careful of the flying spring, when you drive out the pin (you'll have more fun putting it back together).

Not many without cutting up the Saiga (they were made to not be 'interchange friendly')

They are interchangeable, but unless you are about 6'6" you are gonna have on helluva length of pull . ..

Please make sure these mags aren't foreign mags that are modded to fit. "SureFire" Saiga mags are East German in origin and are not countable as US parts.

You can also relieve the bottom of the trigger arm that has no corresponding slot in the receiver. Don't go overboard, just remove enough so that it releases the hammer and doesn't impinge on the receiver. A side benefit can be 'no/limited overtravel'

Arsenal USA is in Houston, Texas (or was until recently) and is/was part of Global Trades. Arsenal Inc is in Las Vegas and K-Var (yes, that K-Var) is a sister company of theirs. Both companies imported Bulgarian AK factory workers and some equipment, and both companies start with factory new rifle parts imported from Eastern Europe. Which is why I was confused.

Probably not, as I get older my brain suffers more CRS Pix would be cool

The stock in the picture above is an actual Saiga stock, and they import them with those stocks on the rifles. If you change out your monte carlo for one of the above, I don't see any problems at all. Now when you use one of those fancy 20 round FBMG mags in it, that's where the 922r questions come in . . .

which Arsenal are we talking about? Arsenal USA or Arsenal Inc?

If you 'get stupid with the grinder', you can always buy a new mag release from k-var, or a milsurp trigger guard someone has left over from a project.

It's not '4 pieces' you can take apart. It is used as both a flash hider and as a means to induce more back pressure in the short krink barrel. Why would you want a bayonet on a 10" barrel? No, the bayonet doesn't fit over a "4 piece flash hider". The '2 piece' Bulgarian AK74 brake starts out life as 2 pieces, but the one piece is pressed into the other piece, and so for all intents and purposes, it's 'one piece'.

All the "US Made" AKs you see are not made in the USA. They are made from imported parts, and use enough USA made parts to be considered "US Made". The smiths who do this work bought some of these imported parts kits for very little money. Century starts with low-cap imports, opens up the mag wells so you can use high cap milsurp mags, and adds enough US parts for the rifle to be considered "US Made" The majority of the expensive machining / casting work was done overseas on any "US Made" AK.

Mill what? Why would he mill anything to knock out a couple of pins?

Just leave the danged ol' holes. More drainage. I use cap headed screws in the holes (like you use for screw building AKs). These have hex holes in the top, but those holes can be filled in with um JB Weld or similar product and made to look like a rivet head.

One like this? http://www.gilbertsguns.com/Stocks/Saiga/R...letonized+Stock