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Shipping to the U.S. is easy. Just take whatever it is you want to ship to Mexico first, then stuff it in a bale of marijuana. It will then have a 94%-96% chance of making it into the U.S. unscathed. Don't worry about any of that boring import licensing and paperwork, federal import laws are really just guidelines anyway.

You are correct . . . except that there is a corresponding trade embargo thingy on our end. In order to get real Dragunovs into the US, they would have to sit in a warehouse in the third country for five years. Hmm.............., I hadn't heard about the trade embargo part on the U.S. side. I assume this embargo is based on specific models of firearms, not on the importing country, otherwise SVDs coming from a country other than Russia would be importable right away if they had "sporting purposes" modifications. Even so, it seems like all an importer in another country would have to do

You are correct . . . except that there is a corresponding trade embargo thingy on our end. In order to get real Dragunovs into the US, they would have to sit in a warehouse in the third country for five years. First I've heard about the auto-sear being non-sporting . . . makes sense though in light of the recent Century PSL / safety sear debacle . . . Larry Hmm.............., I hadn't heard about the trade embargo part on the U.S. side. I assume this embargo is based on specific models of firearms, not on the importing country, otherwise SVDs coming from a country other tha

Yes I know, what I meant was that a .308 Saiga and a 7.62x54R SVD are in the same general class of firearm (i.e. a self-loading rifle chambered for a true rifle cartridge, not an intermediate cartridge like the .223 or 7.62x39), and that the average american shooter (who doesn't worry or care about the differences between stamped vs. milled receivers, short-stroke vs. long stroke pistons, etc.), probably wouldn't think there was much difference between the two. A typical non-enthusiast shooter might even consider an SVD chambered in 7.62x54R (though SVDs are now also made in .308) to be bad ch

No receivers that were originally select-fire (no matter the type of modification used to limit to semi-auto) are presently allowed into America. In the past-"yes", in the now-"no"! As for importing Russian parts-kits : "Who's your daddy now?" . It mainly comes down to money. If they thought they would make significantly more money in the U.S. by making an importable SVD type rifle, Izhmash would. They could easily produce a variant of the SVD that would be importable under the 'sporting purposes' requirements the ATF imposes, just like with their Saiga series rifles and shotguns (whic

Once you have it finished and take it out for a shoot, don't forget to let us know how your shoulder feels with that stock after running through a few magazines of 3" magnum ammo.

Yeah the caption got the magazine type wrong, but its still a nice pic of Tony's work. Though I think a pic with a Tromix stock rather than an AR-15 type stock would have been better. I am sort of curious as to how the self regulating gas system of the Vepr 12 is supposed to work. Even though it is supposed to be self regulating, it just doesn't seem like such a gas system would be able to run as wide a range of ammo as the Saiga 12's manually adjustable system.

Max Popenker updated the Saiga 12 shotgun section on his website. One guess as to which gunsmith's customized Saiga 12 was added as one of the new featured pics. http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/sh07-e.htm Saiga .410 and Saiga 20 sections were also added: http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/sh32-e.htm http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/sh31-e.htm , and so was the Vepr 12: http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/sh33-e.htm It says the Vepr 12 has self regulating gas system and doesn't need a manually adjustable gas valve, interesting.

The form 3 tax exempt NFA transfer form may only be used for transfers of NFA items between SOT licensees, like a transfer between a NFA firearms manufacturer and class 3 dealer, or a transfer between two class 3 dealers. For your suppressor purchase you were getting the suppressor from a private owner who was in a different state. So the suppressor first had to be transferred to your local dealer, who had to get it transferred through a form 4 rather than a tax exempt form 3, since the suppressor was being transferred to the dealer from a private owner not another SOT licensee. This would hav

In this case, no matter what I don't see why you would have to pay the NFA tax more than once. There are essentially two routes in getting a SBS (or any other NFA class firearm) made and registered in your name. In the first route someone with a SOT (special occupational tax) license to manufacture and distribute NFA firearms (like Tromix) makes the SBS, and you purchase it directly from them. In this case you pay the SOT licensee directly for the SBS and fill out a ATF Form 4 ( http://www.atf.gov/forms/pdfs/f53204.pdf ) for it, and then of course wait for ATF approval and the NFA tax stam

The sight rib was modified and its front moved back I agree, but the front of the gas block sure looks to be in the original factory position to me. If you take an on screen measurement from the rear of the receiver to the front of the bolt handle, and then divide it by the distance from the front of the bolt handle to the front of the gas block, for both pictures this ratio comes out to about 1.03 or so. As far as the sights go, I am sure Tony could leave the sight rib in its original factory length if you wanted. In any event I think it is a safe bet to say that anything the Izhmash fact

Tony has converted saiga 12s to a 305mm(12 inch) barreled configuration before, so I am sure he could do 330mm(12.9 inch) barrel conversion with no problem. His 12 inch barreled conversions look like they retain the same gas tube and gas block location as factory saigas. You can see a picture of one of Tony's 12 inch barreled saigas on FBMG's website at: http://www.fbmginc.com/index.php?page=shop...rt&Itemid=1 Of course you will have to wait until Tony can start taking orders again in September.

The factory 8rders are a military quality mag unlike the AGP mags. They are molded as one peice and have a steel insert. The AGP mags are 2 peice and don't have a metal insert. There is such a demand for the 8rd mags (from the rest of the world) that you can bet Russia isn't giving them away to anybody. Oleg HAS NOT had a steady supply of them since AGP's mags came out. The Russian's don't even supply him with all he would like to have. If they did he would have a steady supply of them and the .410 10rd mags at all time. He has been out for months. He just now got these in and bet they

Yes, search in the forums at gunsnet or akfiles in the WASR section. Some of those guys like to add dimples to the formerly single stack guns. Its basically a male and female side smashed in a press. I have seen photos of a 223 Saiga that someone added dimples to. IIFC he said it was a major pain and would never do it again. I would imagine it was a pain... the receiver is hardened from the factory, forming dimples in it after that would be a stone cold pants wetting bitch in my opinion. In full agreement here. The only way to properly dimple any kalashnikov receiver i

vladimirzagumennyy, I see it looks like you also posted your AKMSU question over at AKforum.net, so you may have already found this information there, but it looks like the AKMSU, or at least the one in that picture that always seems to pop up, was a one of a kind AK made by some anonymous gunsmith in Pakistan. There are a couple of threads at AKforum.net, where they say it was made with russian parts on a stamped chinese receiver, and the thumbhole lower forend was made completely from scratch. Apparently a lot of the the confusion about it having been produced as a standard production it

Unless of course the stock is shaped so it is also connected to the bottom of the pistol grip ( http://www.raacfirearms.com/Saiga_option.htm ), then for some reason the ATF considers it to be just peachy. I swear there must be some requirement in D.C. that the only thing that is supposed to be done more poorly than the writing of a federal firearms law, is the ATF's interpretation of it.

Offhand, I don't know the exact differences between yugo and bulgy barrel trunnions, so I don't know if a yugo barrel could be milled to fit a bulgarian trunnion, but it definitely sounds possible. The main problem is, the only way to know for sure you are milling the barrel to the correct bulgarian profile, would be to already have an 8 inch krinkov barrel to compare against (or at least the machine drawing for one). Fortunately, you would only be concerned with the outside profile of the barrel, so if you could find a 5.45 or 5.56 bulgy krinkov barrel, you could use it as your comparison tem

As far as I know only Yugoslavia and Bulgaria ever made underfolder 7.62 AKMSUs as a standard production item, and only the Bulgarian version had the 8 inch barrel (the Yugoslavian M92 had a 10 inch barrel). The Bulgarian variant is listed on the Arsenal Bulgaria website at: http://www.arsenal-bg.com/defense_police/7,62ar-sf.htm K-Var did import some 7.62 Bulgarian underfolder AKMSU kits a few years ago, but they sold out almost immediately (see http://www.k-var.com/shop/product.php?prod...254&page=1) and they won't be available again unless the ATF changes its nonsensical ruling on p

I don't know where to find the instructions for adjusting a BP-02 scope mount, but I know Tantal has instructions for the PSO mount on his website at: http://tantal.kalashnikov.guns.ru/pso/clamp_adjustments.htm , and I think the BP-02 and PSO mounts are similar enough that these instructions might work for you. If the PSO instructions don't work, you could also try e-mailing Tantal. He sells BP-02 scope mounts on his website, so he certainly has the instructions for them. Even if you can't get an electronic copy from him, you could probably at least order a hard copy replacement of th

Making your own plug for a magazine you already have is the simplest, and of course the cheapest way to get a 2 round mag. If for whatever reason you want a factory made plug, you can sometimes find them at various sources in the U.S. (like eBay), but the only place I know of that consistently keeps them in stock is FSU Connections in the UK (a.k.a. Russmil, as G O B already mentioned). All their magazines are listed at: http://www.rusmilitary.com/html/c-deact_magazines.htm They sell the factory spacer that converts a 5 round mag to 2 rounds (10 GBP, or about $19), and they also sell