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I have three surefire gun mags for the Saiga 410, 15 rounds. Two are new in the bag, one is opened, barely used. All in great shape. $150 shipped for all three.

Barrel is sold.

How about $200 shipped? Or possibly trade (if anyone wants to) for two MD Arms drums?

I have a Saiga 12 barrel for sale. Off a new model IZ109, so its length is 19.2" or so. The gun it came from was a 2012 production one, so it has the most recent updates to the barrel. It was not used, this barrel was replaced with an aftermarket barrel. So it is in new condition, but it was installed on a gun before. Just the barrel, no gas block, thread protector or any other parts are included. If you've looked into it you know these are not available as a spare part, except pulled off a gun. Already drilled for 4 gas ports at the factory, the ports have not been altered from how Izhmash m

I talked to the owner, Paul. Turns out he is local to me, here in Colorado. He has a web site, iccmfg.com which is evolving. He has the 12 inch barrels now, with the shoulder for the gas block for that 2 inch pistol piston shown on the web site, or the shoulder can be turned further back to work with the Tromix shorty piston. I am planning to have him put one of his barrels on my shorty Saiga, when that gets done I can offer an evaluation. One thing you can do to offset the cost of the barrel is to sell the factory one. I plan to do that.

I saw on Gunbroker that someone is listing new US made 12 inch Saiga barrels, not drilled for gas ports yet. They could be a US made part for section 922® purposes, but the main benefit could be that there are no old gas ports to deal with when scooting the gas system back for shorty guns. I am excited about a new option being available.

This gun has the K-Var handguard on it. http://www.k-var.com/shop/SG-022.html

Here's a $140 Russian 8 getting thrown around.... I don't discriminate Good looking magazine there!!!!!!!!!!!

The best thread I found for this was here http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?/topic/38318-sbs-technical-info-thread/ To answer your questions: you can shorten the stock tube the bolt carrier piston runs in, but you'll run into trouble with the bolt carrier hitting the ribs. You can try to open it up, but it's easier to get a new piece of tubing. Typically you remove the piston end of the bolt carrier. Tromix makes, and CSS sells, a shorter piston to replace it. I think that gets you about 2". If you want to move the gas block even further back than that allows, you have to make up

Guns with electronic triggers, rather than mechanical triggers are made. Remington has or had the 700 EtronX rifle. A number of target pistols with electric triggers are made for Olympic "free pistol" competition. I don't see why yours would be a problem, in itself. As others have noted, if you do the setup for a semi-auto gun, and just holding the switch will let it fire multiple times, that is something I would expect to be treated as a machine gun by the legal system and by ATF. However, if the setup is for a gun that does not automatically reload itself you're fine. And if it's for a

Awesone gun. What did you use for the piston tube, the pipe that encloses the bolt carrier? I know the carrier won't fit in the ribbed part of the factory tube, so I think most people who move the gas block back (which means more of the carrier ends up in the tube) replace the factory tube with a piece of tubing. Dimensions on what you used, or did you repurposes something for that role? I am trying to gather ideas for a build. What to do with that part is a factor. I would love to see some pictures of the bolt carrier as well, as well as the gun field stripped.

M22 x .75.

The serial number written on the stamp doesn't matter. As long as you wrote the serial number correctly (i.e. the form matches the gun itself) when you filled out the form, you're good. The writing on the stamp is how it is 'canceled' the way any used stamp should be, per federal law on revenue stamps. The writing on the stamp doesn't have legal significance. In the past they canceled checks by stamping the date of approval on them, and also by initialing them in ball point pen. I have a few with no cancellation on them. I am sure in the more distant past they did other things too.

Your gun was imported by Tennessee Guns Inc., in Knoxville TN. It says TGI, not TBI, although it may well be hard to read. If your serial number started with "09" your gun was made in 2009, as you note. Sometimes they sit for a while at the manufacturer before being sold.

My understanding is that the thread for the gas plug is M22 x 1.0. You can find taps in this thread on ebay, and probably other places. I can't believe the block is beyond repair. No one currently imports spare parts for the Saiga 12 shotguns. Finding a gas block is going to be hard. It makes much more sense to fix/rework the one you already have. BTW, does your gun have a 16" barrel for real? Are you in the USA? In the USA, unless registered as a short barreled shotgun, the barrel needs to be at least 18 inches. And if it is registered, why not cut the barrel down further?

The 12 gauge Saiga's I have seen all have a riveted front sight, not a threaded one. My .410 had a threaded front sight. My experience is that, with the 12 gauge guns, you need to drill the front sight bead out and then tap the hole for whatever you want to use. it's a pretty big hole, you might need to fill it in some with weld or the like to be able to tap it for a more conventional bead. I was able to do an 8-40 brass bead in my .410 Saiga, just chased the existing thread with the 8-40 tap and it went in and thus far has stayed in fine. 8-40 is the largest bead Brownells has, to my sh

Russian 5.5 mm AK folding stock.

My local indoor range only allows slugs in shotguns. They say people are more likely to shoot up the range (not hitting the backstop, in other words) with shot. Given how much people seem to be able to shoot up the range with rifles and handguns, firing only one projectile per shot, I can't blame them.

As discussed via email, I will take the first stock pictured, noted as item one, above.

Fore-ends for the Saiga 12 will not fit the 410 gun, at least not without a lot of futzing with. Any rifle AK fore-end can go on the 410 gun, if you put the front bracket on the gun. A few vendors sell ones that bolt on, or you can take the gas block off and put a regular AK rifle one on the gun. Dinzag, here on the forums, sold a bolt on one. The bbl diameter has to be reduced a little, and a notch cut in the barrel for the latch for the non bolt on ones, but it can all be done nicely with a file, that's how I did mine. Then you can use any fore-end meant for an AK rifle. Here's a pic

Yes that is the correct rear assembly for the Saiga 12. I guess, between when I posted and now, the price went up 2 pounds for the buttstock, and also two pounds for the rear kit. Sorry, if you'd ordered yesterday, it was cheaper. That rear kit includes a front latch set that won't work for a Saiga 12. You can sell it, or just keep it for when you want to do a different gun that is based more on the traditional AK receiver and barrel trunion. Or, if you don't care if the stock latches when it's folded or if it just flops around, you can skip that altogether.

An alternative source for the parts for doing an AK100 stock is www.rusmilitary.com. They are a UK based company, and have the stock listed for 47 pounds and the rear receiver parts for 52 pounds. According to their web site the buttstock is in stock and the rear receiver parts arrive today (July 29)!!! They run out of stock often, so the fact that they are in stock now is nice. According to the web site, you get 20% off those prices if you are outside the EU and therefore don't have to pay their VAT (value added tax, basically a sales tax). You do have to pay shipping. It is about

This one had three unblocked ones. I don't know their size, or if the gun runs or not. But I did look.

Here are some pictures! The packing slip on the outside of the box is dated May 31, 2011" Here is the new? style thread protector: This one does have a rail for scope mounting, I saw in another thread this might be deleted on future imports: This one has an "11" prefix on the serial number, and the proof test has an "11" below it, all suggesting 2011 manufacture: This one was imported by Legion USA: Here is the dot matrix style serial number, sorry it's a little blurry:

This one has no LRBHO.