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Kylsix

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  1. As a technical forum, I hope you understand that I am not trying to be condescending or insulting, but neither of those statements are technically accurate. When an animal jumps after being shot, or a jogger falls after being shot, it is due to involuntary reaction from being shot. The target moves some or fall down, absolutely, but flying backwards, flipping over, popping up in the air is not due to the physical impact of the round, but due to the reaction of being shot. There are numerous police and military reports on the topic, even some video of law enforcement shooting a dummy on roll
  2. There are always things to consider when choosing a home defense load. One thing to consider when choosing a shotgun as your HD weapon is what are potential assailants likely to be wearing? In the warmer climates, loose fitting clothes will be common, though at night they may still wear a light weight jacket for protection or to hide their identity. In colder climates, they will have heavier clothing to keep warm. Both of those types of clothing present significant problems to bird shot. Loose clothing greatly decelerates the shot because the loose fitting clothes will be pushed by the sh
  3. I always thought that bend was there for a reason!
  4. I ran some 3" 00 Federal Vital-Shok through my Saiga the other weekend. First round I got clocked in the nose by the nob on my ATI folder/collapsible because I wasn't ready for it, I have since decided to change that out for just a flat folder. I can handle the ammo just fine, but it's not something to shoot all day, and the Hornady Critical Defense 2 3/4" has just as good penetration. On that note, though, I did have some issues with 2 3/4" rounds feeding from the Izzy 5rd magazines, the last round would almost always push up into the top of the chamber, wedging the round between the bo
  5. It doesn't look like the mag release has a full purchase on the lip of the magazine, my magazine latch about touches the back of the magazine. I have never had this problem, and I may be wrong, but you might want to file off about 1/8th an inch off of a cheapo magazine and see if that fixes the problem.
  6. Welcome aboard. I'm glad you found a "true Russian made version", because, you know, well, you know.
  7. The safety on AK style receivers also doubles as a dust cover, also another reason I wouldn't use it as a BHO (unless your only shooting option is a range that doesn't let you use spent cartridge to keep the bolt from closing). Dust isn't a huge deal, but small rocks or other debris getting in there while trudging through the bush can start to cause problems if that isn't there. I do agree that the safety on AK style weapons isn't ideal, especially for hunting and tactical situations where you want that safety off coming up, but back on going down, but don't want to move your hand away from
  8. You can move up the FCG when you convert and you won't have any problems. The Tapco G2 FCG is designed for AK style receivers without a BHO, so the right sight of the hammer's base needs to have about an eighth of an inch, maybe more removed and polished (where the pin goes through and the hammer rotates on, I can't remember the name of that specific part). If you buy the FCG from Tromix, that is already done, along with polishing. The OEM hammer spring works fine, and is already fitted for the S12's BHO. I had to modify the spring I bought so it wouldn't be pushed off the trigger by the B
  9. That rail on the top can be removed, it's just attacked by screws through the M1913 rail on the upper receiver and the top of the handguard. Your upper receiver is a flat top and your quad rail handguard is on the A2 style delta ring. The top rail you have just connects the two, giving you a monolithic option that is much higher off the bore, which is much less accurate and will cause issues with distance markers on ACOGs, MILDOT scopes, or any other optic that has different aiming points for different ranges. If you take off that piece, you have a lot more options for iron sights and optic
  10. Take that monolithic riser off unless you plan on using an EOTech or other CCO and need higher eye relief. I would have suggested the Magpul rear peep sight over the Troy, simply because of preference, but the Troy will work fine. The basics of shooting an AR are easy, but since you jumped into a tactical AR, a lot of the traditional training most people have on their M16s goes to crap. Your sight picture and length of sight will be vastly different and less accurate than a full length M16/AR. Iron sights on shorter gas tube rifles like that one are nothing more than backup sights. I woul
  11. Those don't effect range at all. They are simply to allow for better sight picture in low-light or with eye-pro, as well as the smaller peep holes allow for a tighter sight picture, thus tighter shot groupings (accuracy). All of those are pretty irrelevant on a shotgun, even slugs and discarding sabot rounds aren't accurate enough to warrant strict zero on a shotgun, I would set it to which ever setting you like the most and adjust your front sight for that one. *EDIT: My only experience with the HK sights is on issue MP5s - I'm not sure the exact same sights are used, but HK sights are
  12. Pulling the optic closer to your eyes is a good idea. Certain sights are designed to be close, whereas others are designed to be further forward. The simple fact is, though, that if you are left eye-dominant and right handed (or vice versa), shooting a both-eyes-open optic will take a considerable amount of getting used to. I have a friend that has the same exact problem, and he had to wear an eye patch to get used to shooting right handed (The US military used to think left eye dominant folk were demons, so they forced them to shoot righty), now he is getting used to shooting lefty. You c
  13. Will take some pics when I get home.
  14. I recently converted my Saiga, but I have a problem in that the hammer spring is too long. It does not rest on the trigger like it should, one arm of the spring does, but it blocks the safety from functioning, and the other arm of the spring doesn't rest on anything, but would rest on the bottom of the receiver if it were touching. This is the OEM spring, I made no changes to it, and verified several times, even had a buddy check, that the right amount of coils were in the spring and that everything is properly mounted. I am wary of modifying the spring without full knowledge of how it shou
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