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That is the grandfather of all bolt rifle designs. I got a heavy barrel varmint 700 that can consistently blow small black olives up at 100 yards with match .308 ammo.

If Hornady ever gets around to using their superformance technology in 7.62x39, then we may see 200 fps faster loads operating at standard pressure.

The problem is getting a softpoint that will actually work well at 200 yards below 1800 fps. I suppose drilling a hole in a softpoint will help expansion at sub 1800 fps but impractical.

Did you order the 124 hp? Classic 8m3 hp 124 gr has been used for a couple of years but recently wolf made some changes and I have not seen the latest batches. If they are 124 gr then I would bet it stayed the same.

I'm not intentionally flaming anyone specifically, however, I can't get over how people are willing to spend a few bucks on a good hunting bullet in some other caliber like .270 or .30-06 but if they decide to use 7.62x39 they use the cheapest they can get by with and then complain it does not perform like their .270 with the $2-3 american made softpoints. This is sort of similar to how so and so shoots shoots his custom match grade $3000 AR15 with handloaded match ammo and then compared it to a WASR 10 with cheap russian ammo and then ultimately makes the blanket statement that all AK plat

All russian hollow points are not the same. See video below. shot 1 Brown bear hp then shot 2 military classic hp (8m3) Of all the cheap russian ammo, the military classic 8m3 hp is going to open up the most and even at 200 yards that is probably its thresh hold limit for decent expansion according to the old thread at theakforum where the mushrooming picture of 8m3 with a 200 yard impact of wet newpaper is shown. Beyond 200 yards, most anything softpoint in 7.62x39 will have a hard time expanding.

The nasty level 4 loco shit is for those that don't mind the taste of going ass to mouth. No offense intended.

Yes, I remember seeing a news link a few years back about this. The court decision resulted in Izmash taking left over Molot assets and essentially owning what was left. The 2006 Veprs that made it here were courtesy of RAA which we all know is the Izmash importer. The last info on why RAA stopped importing them here was they were too expensive and not enough people wanted to pay over $600 in 2006 for an unconverted vepr. This was when Saigas were retailing for half of that. I'm not sure why the same company in Russia demanded that much more for their Vepr products considering all things equa

The tapco g2, arsenal ,and texas trigger are all metal injection molded and when finely polished produce the same smoothness of surface. The drawback of MIM is a reputation of not being as workable and smooth as a conventional forged steel that can be milled and polished to a greater degree due to the tighter grain pattern. MIM parts also have the reputation of being weaker and more subject to breaking hence the disconnector you mentioned breaking. I have seen reports of broken G2 and Arsenal groups in the past. Flaws are near impossible to detect on MIM parts until it cracks. On many other

No but I polished it into a one stage movement that breaks smoother than a glass rod. Same can be done to a tapco g2.

http://www.theakforum.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=141422 Those little red tipped bullets are not lacking in putting deer down fast.

Cabelas has 14 positive reviews about it. Its made in hungary and so is the fiocchi brass cased that I have tried and had no problem with. The MFS is 124 gr FMJ versus Fiocchi 123 gr FMJ but its probably the same source.

Cheetah has been long discontinued from import, but yes it was brass cased and made in africa as a commercial product. I have not seen any bulk igman 7.62x39 ammo in a while. MFS 2000 7.62x39 Ammunition @ $7 a box of 20 is about the cheapest your going to find for any brass cased.

With a 30 caliber bullet, 1800-2000 fps is the critical minimum range for rifle-type impact effects like liquifying flesh around the bullet path imparting other serious tissue shock. This would limit a 7.62x39 125 grain load to near 100 yards to maintain that minimum velocity. I'm not saying it won't obviously do the deed at much longer distances but lets just say its best performance is above 1800 fps. I would have no interest in tracking a wounded deer so I want a clean as possible kill. There was this epic thread on another board where a research scientist shot dozens of deer with varyin

You're still a lot smaller than me bro Its 2010, unless you can car surf with no one at the wheel its just not enough to be jacked anymore.

Did you not find any of the 275 yard impact bullets? At that distance, they would have been a bit over 1500 fps which is more like pistol velocity.

So, was it Wolf "black box" or Military Classic? They are supposed to have different performance. I've read that Military Classic HPs are supposed to be pretty devastating. Perhaps the bullets didn't expand or fragments due to the long range? The wolf black box does not open much at close range. Its the closest to FMJ of any russian hp. Military Classic hp with the real 8m3(124 grain) hollow points opens up the most of any russian ammo period and even at 200 yards it just mushrooms like a soft point through wet news paper. 8m3 at 100 on the left and 200 on the right.

Just in case you have not already found out, your rifle will need a bullet guide installed for the surplus mag to feed correctly and reliably. Also, there is also the Federal law felony avoidance issue to deal with involving the use of a 10+ round mag in your saiga without stripping off enough foreign parts from an all original stock saiga. The bullet guide will require drilling a hole in the front trunion.

Just think if they had accidently ended up with hot pink instead. No one would be trying to hussle hot pink mags and furniture for their kalashnikov rifle.

Nice pictures. I would have to assume the barrel has the famous russian gun control chamber step like pictured in the link below? http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?showtopic=7303&st=60

$404/1500=$0.27 a round. The missing factor here is US income to NZ income equivalence. Like say for example if minimum wage in NZ were $25 NZD as opposed to what it is here. Retrospectively, back in the mid 1980s, chinese sks rifles used to sell for $70-$90 USD in many parts of the country and big cases of the same ammo like shown in the picture was often sold for as little as $10 USD or given away with the purchase of the rifle. Once the Chinese exporters got Americans hooked on the 7.62x39 drug from the dirt cheap samples, the prices eventually were raised and today the demand sustains t

That is probably a crude Russian to English translation attempt of single shot per trigger pull SAIGA M3 EXP-01 single-shot semi-automatic rifle is developed on the base of the AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle and demonstrates high reliability and accuracy of fire under the adverse conditions. It is intended for law enforcement forces, convoy and security units. compare it to http://www.izhmash.ru/eng/product/akm.shtml AKM Kalashnikov modernized assault rifle, cal. 7.62mm is an individual weapon intended to neutralize the enemy manpower. The assault rifle is equipped with the knife-bayo

Its all just cosmetics. The real 107s have the dual rod gas system that conter balances recoil. If Arsenal came out with a dual rod system 107, I might be interested but that is asking alot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6RzfAtYt2U&feature=related After doing some research myself, and reading and watching videos on this particular design, all I can say is that I want one! I wonder if you could somehow acquire said parts for a semi-auto version. You'd need the special barrel, the gas tube, the BCG, the two operating rods and I think that would be it. I suppose