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  1. I get about 5" groups with South African and about 2" groups with handloads. Federal match and one oddball batch of surplus would give me around 2.5" groups. They're not tackdrivers, but with some experimentation they are reasonably accurate.
  2. I think the biggest problem with the 16" barrel is blast. A slightly longer barrel means a much smaller fireball. You gain some velocity too, but I don't think that's terribly important on this kind of rifle. It's not like you're going to be doing 800 yard precision shooting with it. Now if you were talking a bolt action sniper rifle, then the extra velocity would be an issue.
  3. What does the Yugo surplus look like? I've got some corrosive .308/7.62 that my S308 loves. It comes in light blue cardboard boxes that simply say ".308 Winchester" on them. I was given my first batch as part of a trade and later picked up some more at a gun show. I've never really figured out what it is though. BTW, your groups sound about the same as my own. With that oddball surplus and certain handloads I've gotten the groups down to just under 2 MOA. But 4-5 MOA isn't unusual with South African and Federal GMM shoots pretty consistently at around 3 MOA.
  4. I did have to modify the hammer on mine. I had to remove a little metal along the bottom. I'm pretty certain that you can get away with a standard RSA trigger if you keep the original hammer, but that's one less compliance part.
  5. One thing people need to take into account when they criticize top cover mounts as being unstable is that a tiny bit of movement on a rear sight is MUCH less significant than a tiny bit of movement of a scope mount. About 1/3 as significant and here's how you can verify that. On a top cover mounted scope any movement of the cover will throw the POI off to the same degree as the cover is moved. So if you can move the angle of the cover 2 MOA then your scope will be off 2 MOA. If you have a rear peep mounted on the top cover that's not the case however. Since the sight radius begins a
  6. $70 is a ton? I've got two rifles with RSA triggers in them. My S308 has around 1000 rounds through it and my SAR3 has around 1500. I never used any Loctite on either one and I haven't had any problems with the screws backing out yet. It's really not much of a reliability issue in any event, since if the screws do come loose the trigger will still function.
  7. There is a little grinding that needs to be done to fit a RSA hammer, but it's a pretty easy fix. I prefer the RSA units myself. You can make almost all AK triggers pretty smooth with a little sanding and polishing, but the RSA trigger is nice in that you can easily adjust it to right where you want it and it only costs an extra $30.
  8. .308 is the easiest I have done so far, except for adding a muzzle brake. Adding a brake is easier on the other rifles. As far as the conversion is concerned though, the .308 doesn't have any holes in the side to fill in and doesn't require a feed ramp. 12g was the hardest. I don't recall the details off the top of my head, but it seemed there were a lot of parts that needed to be fitted.
  9. With bullet weights of 150 grains or less, the .308 keeps right up with the .30-06 and in some cases surpasses it. It's only when you get into the heavy stuff that .30-06 really starts to do better.
  10. I tried modifying a couple of FAL mags about a year ago, but I gave it up. The big problem is that the front trunnion requires a very narrow mag and unless you absolutely butcher an FAL or G3 mag, they're not going to fit right. Now if you're the fearless sort and don't mind removing some metal from the trunnion, then I think you could really make something work. Myself, I'm not that bold and I'll just continue to order a couple Surefires and FBMGs here and there until I've got a supply built up.
  11. Having qualified on both the Appleseed AQT and what was the Army M16 qualification test in the late 80's and early 90's, I found the Appleseed AQT to be the more difficult of the two. On the M16 qualification test I shot, (on which I did shoot expert), you fired 40 shots at pop up targets at ranges between 50 and 400 meters. You had 20 shots from the prone and 20 from a foxhole. If you knocked the target down you scored a hit. Expert was 36 and above. On the Appleseed AQT you fire 40 shots at 25m at targets that are reduced in size to equal the their profile at 100m, 200m, 300m and
  12. If you only load 20 rounds then 5.45 mags will usually feed alright, (they'll feed even better if you file the area right in front of the feed lips a little too). If you want to load them to capacity then you'll need to either modify the followers or get aftermarket followers like the Robarms ones.
  13. Nothing that I know of seriously reduces the trigger pull on an AK. You can make it much smoother, shorter, and adjust the second stage in different ways, but the actual pull weight is determined by that coiled up spring that wraps around the hammer and hooks over the back of the trigger. Unless you replace or alter that spring in some way you're not going to change the pull weight much.
  14. Bender, Who did the furniture on that top rifle and how did you mount the buttstock? That thing looks fantastic. I've always wanted a wood stocked AK without the dip in it. The pistol grip looks great too.
  15. Both rifles shoot alright with the sling and without, it's just that they don't shoot to the same point of impact. At 25 yards using a tight sling the groups are about 1.5" lower. At 100 yards they are about 6" lower. That's kind of a problem, because most of the time I don't use a sling. I had about 200 rounds with me at the range yesterday and I spent about 50 of that experimenting with different sling techniques. I found that if I wrap the sling tight around my bicep and then slip my hand through the front loop, but leave it disconnected from the rifle, I got most of the stab
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