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I called EAA two weeks ago to order a Saiga 12ga choke set and was told the Saiga 100 wouldn't be here till June,2004.

The SAR series are Romanian AK rifles. The numbers after the dash denote the chambering of the rifle. SAR-1 = 7.62x39mm SAR-2 = 5.45x39mm SAR-3 = 5.56x45mm The SAR-1 is a semi auto version of the AKM. The SAR-2 is a semi auto version of the AK-74. The SAR-3 is a modified SAR-2 chambered for the 5.56x45mm cartridge. The Saiga rifles are made by Izhmash in Russia. The Saiga is a modified AK-100 which is a updated version of the AK-74 rifle. http://www.izhmash.ru/eng/product/saiga.shtml

The CZ-52 is a very good pistol and the wholesale price is $99 with 2 mags and a holster. It is the best bang for the buck. But their ability to handle hot sub gun ammo is just a urban legend and a dangerous one at that. http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/4653/bad.htm Having fired some of this ammo years ago in a Chinese 54-1(TT-33 copy) I can say it is really hot! Owning both a CZ-52 and a Polish TT-33 I can say the CZ feels better in my hand and the sights are a little better. With surplus 7.62x25mm ammo at 8-10 cents a round it is some cheap shooting. But I shoot mostly Sellier

I called EAA two weeks ago to order a choke set for my newly aquired Saiga 12. I asked about the Saiga 100,Pioneer,and IZH-18MH single shot rifle. Which are all in the 2004 EAA catalog I got with my choke tube set. The Saiga 100 and IZH-18MH were in the 2003 catalog. The lady said that all the rifles are held up in Russian customs. I asked if the problem was they were not making a payoff to custom officals and she said yes they wanted too much . She said to tell everyone interested in them to email EAA. If enough people do it the owner will see he is missing out on some big bucks in sales a

I have fired 8 boxes of 3" Remington and Winchester shotshells,150 Barnaul slugs,15 rounds of S&B Spherical Bullet 3" shells,and 50 Barnaul shotshells in my Saiga 410. It has been 100% reliable with all. I bought a 2-1/2" Saiga magazine and have not been able to get 2-1/2" shells to feed reliably. I tried the older Rottweil Brenneke 2-3/4" slugs but they won't eject reliably. Sellior & Bellot makes the perfect home defense round for the 410. It is the Spherical Bullet load which is a 3" shell loaded with five 00 Buck lead pellets. S&B also makes the Spherical Bullet load in a

The numbers stand for 100,200,300 meters. So if you only have a range in yards it won't hurt anything to set the sights for 100,200,300 yards instead of meters. As 100 meters is 109.4 yards and you are not shooting a rifle capable of sub 1 inch groups anyway. The difference in the amount the bullet drops in the extra 9.4 yards is so small you won't be able to measure it. Set a target up at 25 yards set the rear sight on the 1 setting and leave it there. Then get your cleaning kit out. There is a tool that has a screwdriver blade on on end and a notch on the other. The notch slips on the fron

Never attempted it. The only one I have had to clean was dropped in the dirt by a friend coating the whole inside and out with dirt/dust. It looked like a movie slow motion scene. It was in the summer,real dry,1-2 inches of dust on the bare ground. It hit the ground face down and open. Giant dust cloud bellows up that seemed like it took several minutes to settle back to the earth. I just sprayed/rinsed it out with a can of brake parts cleaner till the liquid running out was clear. Then sprayed down the whole inside with CLP. Really coated it till it started to pool in the bottom. Then sl

The Valtro mag won't fit in the Saiga 12ga as it hits the sides of the trunion before it can get in enough to lock in. But it is made to feed the shells straight into the chamber where the Saiga mag feed shells up at a angle into the chamber. Looking at them both side by side the Valtro would need major modifications to work in a Saiga.

I saw a nature show on the Discovery channel about central Aisa and they pronounced it Sigh-Guh.

The rib is 9.25" long x.397" wide x .314" tall. The bead is .065" from the front of the rib. The adjustment wheel which is .589" in diameter is .381" from the front of the rib. The ear on each side of the rib that attaches the rear of the rib to the shotgun stick up above the rib by .147". The rear end of the rib to the front of the ears is .633". So to attach the sights in the pic you posted the front one will have to have a notch cut out for the adjustment wheel and the bead removed or a hole drilled in the sight to clear it. The fiber optic rods on the rear sight might be blocked by the

Isn't the AK-100 series of rifles a updated AK-74?

Here in Arkansas there is no state paperwork. I fill out the 4473 and the dealer writes my drivers licence and CHL numbers on the 4473. Then I walk out the door with my gun.

Why would you want to convert one when the wholesale price of a 20ga Sagia is $10 more than a Saiga 410 and the 12ga is $80. If the conversion is possible it wouldn't be cost effective. If ammo costs are too much for you a MEC 600jr 410 reloader is $100 and buying componets at retail then reloading your fired shells a 25rd box of 3" shotshells would cost $3.50. Reloadng 3" slugs cost $1.25 for a 5rd box using Ballistic Products 410 slugs. So loading 18 boxes of shotshells would pay for the reloader. I watch the newpaper want ads for deals on primers,wads,powder,and shot. I have run into sev

http://www.nightvisionweb.com/posp_4x24.htm http://www.nightvisionweb.com/faq_ak.htm This site has lots of info on how to mount and zero a Russian scope. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/snb7267/

The Saiga 7.62x39mm rifle is a AK-74 rifle modified to fire 7.62x39mm ammo. It is not a AK-47/AKM rifle modified to use a different mag. This is the reason there is no feed ramp and the cartridges feed directly from the mag into the chamber. The Saiga mags are of new mfg. but are a AK-74 mag with the feed lips designed to function with 7.62x39mm ammo.

Why is the mag curved instead of straight?

I have to say that the current imported Russian ammo is not very accurate in my Saiga rifle. I get 4" or larger groups with it. The bullet design as only the rear .003" is the listed diameter with the rest of the shank of the bullet being .309". This coupled with the variences in powder charge weights is the cause of the accuracy problem with this ammo.

http://www.cdnninvestments.com/saiga1.html The EAA mount is the factory mount for Saiga rifles.

Here is a link to a post on Saiga 223 accuracy on another board. http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=617 Looks pretty good to me!

As Mr. Rodgers would say on his PBS kid's show, "Can you at home say...... "Rip Off"? You can do the same thing without adding anything to your rifle or spending any money. It is called bump firing. You hold the rifle at your hip but don't grip it with your right hand just stick you finger on the trigger and pull the rifle foreword with your left hand on the handguard. The trigger is pulled to your finger firing the rifle and as it recoils back pull it foreword with your left hand. Do this real fast and you can do the same thing without spending $35 + shipping. Here is a couple of video's

Using a 30rd mag in a Saiga that doesn't have 5 US mfg. parts violates federal law. http://www.cdnninvestments.com/saiga1.html The EAA mount is the factory scope mount for Saiga's but the others will work fine. With these mounts any scope can be used.

I emailed EAA several weeks ago about the Saiga 100 which is the model that will be chambered for 30-06 and the IZH-18MH which is the single shot rifle. They replied that they will not be imported till after the first of the year. I am not holding my breath as when they announced these rifles eailer this year they said they would be here by the 3rd quarter of this year when I emailed them this spring.

No,not unless you move the trigger and trigger guard foreword to the origional postition like AK rifles with pistol grips.

I ordered scope mounts from Kalinka this spring. It took a month to get two of them and the third took almost 3 months to get. All were mailed from Russia. I have read several horror stories on the AK-47.net forums. Do a search on "Kalinkaoptics" in the Reviews forum and Optics forum. Lock/load, I have 6 Russian detachable scope mounts and all are 100% stable and stay put. I only had to adjust one of the mounts and that was when putting it on a Romanian SAR-2. I have one of the scope mounts that has the 3 allen screws on it to attach it to the rail. Being made of aluminum it bends when y

A friend and I refinished 2 bolt action Russian 22 rifles,3 Mossberg pump shotguns,and his Barrett M-82 50 BMG rifle with Brownells baking laquer. The Russian rifles were done with black and the rest with grey parkerizing color. We baked them in his kitchen while his wife was at work. They all turned out real well. One of the shotguns was for a friend that had it in his trucks rifle rack all winter. There were some rub marks from the rifle rack but it didn't wear through the paint.