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  1. I think you ought to get as many Saigas as you can lay your hands on. Especially with the new chief you will get there in Washington. He seems like a gun grabber to me. With regards to using it for HD I am convinced that training is more important than what guns you use. The S-12 might be complicated for a complete beginner. But I would like to compare it with driving a car. Without proper training it is both difficult and dangerous. Would you like your loved ones drive a car with no training? Guess not. Stock up on as many Saigas as you can afford and get a few Glocks or 1911 (or what
  2. I got one. (See this post for pics). It does reduce recoil a bit but I dont think it is worth the money or the effort. I actually took it out as I felt no need for it. If you ask me recoil is overrated and is not a real issue with gas operated guns. As I compete I am more worried about changing the balance of th gun by adding weight in the rear or timing issues with having some liquid splashing around in it. I like my S-12 to be firm and predictible. If you want to make the gun more friendly I suggest padding the stock with something soft (eg. styrofoam) and using skeet ammo plus
  3. Home made JP-style brake using a barrel choke for threads. Picture Reduces recoil and muzzle flip. Enhances bang by pushing sound/gas back towards the operator.
  4. Today the little welded-on cover that sits on top of the recoil spring came off. I am not sure what it is called, is it a dust cover? Anyway, my real concern is about how to fix it and if I can continue to safely use the gun until it is fixed. What is it called? Can I weld it back on? What parts are needed if I have to replace it - and where can I get the parts required? Any suggestions/help is aprechiated. Thanks!
  5. If you, for some reason, want to mix ammo types in one string - or prefer less than lethal ammo - then a pump would be a good option. Maybe I am wrong here but I think the manual racking of the pump seems like a reliability advantage if you run beans or whatever in the gun. When it comes to manipulation, recoil etc. I would suggest training. That should reduce your concerns about if your wife can handle the gun under preassure from an unexpected visitor in the house.
  6. Would you guys say it is important to zero the rail if it is permanently attached the way Gunfixr did? Or is it enough to have it aligned by hand? Like in the barrels general direction. I was considering having a smith do this for me and am not sure how to get it aligned properly. I never heard of bore lasers for 12 gague. Also, would you know what kind of steel the gas tube is made of? In case I would like to have the smith use the same type for welding etc.
  7. I am careful with the full choke and gas setting when I run slugs. My settings for planned slug use are gas=1, choke=open or 1/2. It happened that I shot some odd slugs through full choke without any obvious damage to the gun but the choke is quite pointless for slugs. The only reason I can think of is that you are (a) competing and need to mix or ( befriending yourself and the S-12 with some unexpected guests in your house and hence lack the proper time for adjusting this fine piece of led-delivery apparatus. wrt the top cover I have no particular advice other than it should not feel
  8. Hi there murdoc! If you are actually getting the gun on the pictures I would like to see some closeup photos of the left side of the gun. In particular where the rear end of the folding stock meets the body of the gun (when folding the stock). I'd like to see the locking mechanism in all angles at real closeup. Are you going to use the gun for competition or are you a collector? In case you are competing you might also want to reconsider the brake option. Once you pattern the gun it might prove nessecary to get a choke or even a polychoke. In my opinion the shark brake is not the compet
  9. +1 Never too many guns! pain in the ass to load shells into my WM drum .... and even bigger pain in the ass to attach the drum ... but i like it and it looks pretty lol why would this WM drum not be able to feed buck or slugs?? "It seems reliable enough, takes standard shots (not buck or slug)" please explain Here is a picture that shows why: I don't know if there are any shorter shells - but I have not managed to find any. The factory 8rd mag accepts the lot.
  10. I don't know if WM is still in business. But I have a pair of WM drums that I got through an importer here in Europe. It seems reliable enough, takes standard shots (not buck or slug) and feeds quicker than I can shoot. I like the open design as I tend to drop my mags in the sand during competitions. I would not like to get too much dirt and debris inside a drum as it is a bit bigger than a standard mag and has a few more moving parts. The real drawback is that it changes the balance of the gun compared to the standard mag. It also adds some weight. I normally use the balance to sense
  11. The brake you are looking for is made by a finnish guy. As far as I know he had access to a machine shop for a while but is not selling them brakes. There are quite a few references to this setup here on the forum and he actually explained the theory behind it in a post quite recently. The main idea was to reduce recoil and thereby muzzle flip. If you look at the gun there is (what I would consider) quite a lot of vertical distance between the stock and the barrel. Since recoil is almost eliminated there is still not much muzzle flip. Here are a few links: http://forum.saiga-12.com/index
  12. I thought that the currency exchange rate was a part of the problem here. The USD is very cheap in Europe at least. I think it is close to an all time low (counting recent yers anyway). So anything you guys need to import is probably expensive compared to what it was a year or so in the past. I find myself buying stuff from the US at bargain prices all the time now.
  13. In Norway $500 for the 19" S-12 and $42 for a factory 8rd mag. However they are no longer legal to sell in Norway so the price is of no practical relevance. Also, today the USD is very cheap compared to most European currencies so at the time I guess a the real price was closer to $380 (cheap USD means more dollars for the same value over here). This was for guns imported directly from Russia so the FX-rates should really be compared to rubels.
  14. Would you offer a packaged deal for less capacity? Such as a ready made 2 rd with cut spring and all. You could let the customer ask for any capacity (less than 10) and then do it as a standard procedure cutting and assembling in a quality controlled way (better than have every mag done differently). I would not mind paying a higher price if I knew it was done professionally.
  15. My wishlist for an automatic LRBHO would be the following: You can install it without cutting up the gun. You can use standard mags and perhaps even a drum without any modification to it. You can lock up the bolt without any mag, either automatically or by pressing the MBHO. You can release the bolt by racking it. The gun is still compliant with USPSA/IPSC rules in terms of safety and handling. It is possible to manipulate the gun with one hand. The gun is as reliable and fast as before. - Yes, I did read your post. So I'm not saying this because I did not see what you wrote.
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