texas_dawg

Took a defensive long gun course today. I used three different magazines with three different results. 1) wanted to share my experience and 22) looking for advice on what mistakes I may have made in loading the magazines and advice on fixing an obvious problem with one of my magazines. The magazines were the factory 5 round, and AGP 10 Round and a promag 10 round. The factory round performed flawlessly. With both the AGP and Promag, I had a couple of failure to feeds. I think they may have been all on the first round and the cause was the top of the shell hitting the top of the chamber. I a

thanks! Thats what I was looking for , couldnt find it just using the forum search field

I did a search on magazine and was suprised not to find discussion on this, but I am looking at a saiga 223. The saleperson told me there is an adapter so that it can take standard ar mags. Anyone familiar with this? Is it a reliable solution and does it work for drums as well as mags?

Can anyone comment on his question above? I bought my saiga 12 to replace a short barreled 20 gauge I keep for home defense. I am find, shooting with it is the gained in speed I get from the auto load, is negated by the time it takes me to reacquire the target. Not a big deal shooting clays, as the most of the recoil seems to be absorbed by the piston, but put slugs or buckshot in it and its significant. Will a brake even make a dent in that? Hopefully I'll adjust to it with more practice, but a lot of those skills can fall apart in stress.

awesome tutorial, and great photos, convey everything well. Still testing my saiga, so not sure I'll need to go thru this but always better to know how.

Yes, its that easy to be compliant. I'd suggest aiming for being able to still use the OEM magazine, which takes a few more swaps, particulary if you don't convert. Was thinking about the same problem. I don't want to do a full conversion till I learn more about the options, and understand the gun a little better, but I do want to use high capacity magazines. So just replacing the booster puck allows me to use both the factory and high capacity magazines. But if I want to add a pistol grip, then I have to replace 3 more parts to use the original magazine, gosh these laws make sense don

Thats kind of what I am leaning towards. But with the side mount is it stable enough? Or would one have to continually resight it. btw, thanks all, great information here, one would never have time to try all the options. I like iron because its always there always works, and the HK is more than enough for home defense applications. However, the technology is a lot more fun to play around with. While it primary purpose is a home defense weapon, i stil l plan on shooting a lot for fun.

Is that rail welded onto thecover? or is it bolted

Looking at quick target aquisition sights for the saiga 12 considering some of the following weld on HK style rail mount hk Style on forarm rail mount Red Dot on forarm rail mount Red Dot on sight mount using the optic mount (side mount) on gun Wondering what are the pluses and minuses, and if Red Dot looks feasible which specific sights are best.

Probably so , thanks for the clarification, old eyes can't read those tiney schematics so well.

After watching the price drop from 800 to as low as 640 on line I stopped into a local gunshop and picked one up for 675. Took it out to the skeet range and ran 25 rounds through it. No misfilres only 2 failures to cycle which I think were related to not seating the round properly ( was restricted to putting two rounds at a time in the magazine because of range rules). I was really suprised at the accuracy and relatively low kick, but I have never shot a semi auto before. I understand they absorb some of the kick. Man do I love that gun. Already ordering a larger magazine and parts to keep it

Wow, thanks for all the good info, glad I asked. I'm so backloaded on projects, I can't take a new one on so I'm fine with paying for the conversion if its done right. I'm going to look into the carolina shooters supply.

I don't really know. Its a converted model I am thinking of buying, it only says Mach1 Arsenal conversion. I've started to seem them at around $1100. Since a basic conversion costs around $400, and the parts they are adding would be about another 150, seems like a better deal then buying and sending it out for the conversion, but I wonder about the quality. I am also seeing some conversions from a company called In Range.

Looking at picking up a converted saiga 12. The conversion is done by arsenal and seems fairly inexpensive compared to the tromax and etac conversions I have seen. Is there cause to be concerned about quality? Anyone have eperience with arsenal saiga conversions good or bad?

Just got back from the saxtet gunshow and the were $750, more importantly they are suddenly available online again and its too soon for these to be new shipments. I'm guessing some dealers who were hording are now looking to drop their inventory, though most are telling me the paid over 600 for them. Leads me to beleive they anticipate a drop. There is one post on this forum for about 640 new , so that would be slightly over 700 OTD price with tax, shipping and ffl fee. I think I am going to hold off at least till next months gun show.