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Does anything inside your saiga appear different than in this picture? When you say minus a rail are you refering to the optics mounting track on the left side of the rifle that should be there from the factory but is not on yours?

I had oil in my Remington 700 bolt firing pin hole turn my sub MOA .308 temporarily into a 10 MOA gun. Oil in my glock 30 firing pin hole made it constantly misfire. Oil can also thicken pretty good in the winter and jam up things more so. It attracts dirt and forms a mess in a critical area that really does not need any oil. Yeah, it might not be causing his problem but again I wouldn't say that it is insignificant.

Your welcome. The handguard can make a huge difference. The barrel vibrates like a piano tuning fork when your fire the gun. Changing the vibrations affects the bullet more than most are aware of. I once shot a shotgun at 25 yards with birdshot to get a pattern and soon tried the same shot by now resting the shotgun barrel on top of a wood fence. The wood fence board resting against the underside of the barrel caused my next pattern to launch and strike 6 inches higher at 25 yards. This was an alarming barrel tuning discovery that has since made me very conscious of what contacts the ba

Yes I agree 100 % that hitting a paper target at 100 yards is not going to be impaired significantly by using Wolf. I guess I am just trying to emphasize that for ultimate marksmanship performance its no where near sufficient.I have seen some boxes or Wolf Black box in the past with crooked bullet seating and that was scary.

Yes it does affect accuracy. You might need to remove the firing pin and clean out the channel. A Q-tip or fuzzy pipe cleaner might help to swab. Brake parts cleaner is all you need for the firing pin channel. pipe cleanerOil does not compress and has a hydraulic effect of resisting the firing pin path in the closed end of the channel.The resistance is not the same every time and this causes the hammer to strike the primer at different intensities which translates to variations in ignition and this is always bad for accuracy. Even wiping the bore with oil after cleaning and keeping the muzzl

I am almost done evaluating Corbon Hunter 7.62x39 150 sp. Its been 3 range trips and so far I will not even bother to mention how well it is grouping at 100 yards because no one will believe me (best I ever seen period). I will hopefully have an unedited video next ime out. Scoped, benched, and with proper control comparison intervals. If your rifle is experiencing inconsistent performance, there are a few things to check. 1. Any oil/grease in the firing pin hole? 2. Is the handguard changing pressure based on your hold from shot to shot/is the handguard locked down and not loose?

Can't wait to try it out.

Where did you buy these loose circle ten mags from? All the circle 10 ones I own are the tightest fitting mags I have ever used. I own steel: chinese, bulgarian, romanian, russian, hungarian, polish, and east german and none are as tight fitting as the circle 10 ones. Can you post a picture of the mag in question? Ok, I noticed your in California. Which capacity circle ten are you refering to? The ones I refered to as tight fitting are 30 and 40 rounds.

There are different after market sights that will work fine with your saigas like peep sights. Tapco made magazines are junk compared to real surplus magazines.

Were you shooting it from the hip?

My SGL front sight post was much harder to turn than any regular saiga front post. Two regular sight adjustment tools (chinese one and a tapco one) broke in the process. Finally,I got the heavy duty Arsenal tool and got the post turned. Has anyone else tried to turn their front post and experienced this?

I seen the WTS thread and even though I know from experience that the 74 firing pins work fine the 74 extractors will likely only work flawlessly with 5.45 saigas unless they been manually reshaped for 7.62x39. I'm not sure the extractors he is selling are actual 7.62 100 series ones. If so, who is the importer? KVAR can't even get these so how the heck is anyone else getting them if they are real surplus AK103 style extractors? I honestly don't ever remember 103 cut up parts kits advertised anywhere.

For 14x1 LH there is the incredible PWS FSC47

Look no further. http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?showtopic=54815&st=0&p=514996entry514996

Has anyone actually tried a 74 bolt in their carrier to check? Other than maybe a cam angle difference they look identical from images. The AKM bolt is obviously way different. I'm not saying it's true, but I have read that the AK100 series bolt is of a smaller diameter than the AK74 bolt. Hmmmmm....

Has anyone actually tried a 74 bolt in their carrier to check? Other than maybe a cam angle difference they look identical from images. The AKM bolt is obviously way different.

Measure a 16 inch barrel version saiga from the muzzle tip to the tang tip. That last few times I measured this a while back the tang tip made the overall just over 26 inches. Cutting the tang will drop the overall below the requirement. A few people have posted in the past about making their saiga into a pistol by removing he stock and closing the receiver hole like a draco. This would imply cutting the tang. A 16 inch barrel saiga with no stock and no tang at the same time constitutes a short barrel rifle.

If you go the internal block route, be careful about measuring and checking to see if the block will fit correctly before cutting the tang. The tang is supporting the angled stock which does not have very much lower bearing surface. By cutting the tang and then realizing the ACE block might not fit, you might not be able to get the original wood stock in a stable hold enough inside the rifle because of the angle cut. If that were the case, at that point, your holding on to a short barrel rifle due to lack of overall 26 1/2 length and still need a new stock solution. [Edit to add correction]

This is what actually ships from Romania with a 10 round single stack magazine. It does not have the ability to use standard 30 round double stack magazines or threaded muzzle devices until Century modifies this base gun. They have to cut the magazine well wider and make all the other changes, but do not actually build the base gun in America. Notice: no slant brake, no pistol grip, and the magazine is not standard. This is how they are legally imported.

Surplus military spec or demiled barrels cannot legally be imported since about 2006 when the ATF finally stopped importers with the "Barrel Import Ban." Century used to import the surplus used barrels but not anymore, and it never was for WASRs because they do not actually assembly the WASR in America. The WASRs are assembled in Romania as single stack magazine sporter rifles with a thumbhole stock and no threaded muzzle.

One more time: Century does not build the WASR. The WASR is entirely built in a Romanian arms factory. Century only IMPORTS them. Ergo, Century has nothing to do with barrels, receivers or any other major component of the WASR (just the piddly 922r stuff). What I stated earlier about Century and parts related to regular parts from cut up rifles that they import for sale as parts kits but not th WASR itself. Since they do build or have built by contractors AK varients (not WASRs), this was not to refer in any way about the WASRs that are entirely built in Romania and ha

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The kicker is the receiver has a slant cut on the rear lower which makes putting on a regular stock near impossible and if you want to use higher capacity magazines legally in the USA that is you still need to extract enough foreign parts.

The last time I shot them side by side with the same vmax ammo and same magnification optics and sand bags my vepr edged out my saiga with a slightly larger than 1 inch 5 shot group. My saiga with the same ammo kept up close until the last two shots where it opened up to a hair under 1.5 inches. The heavier barrel made a difference (heat sink) at the end but not by much. All things being equal a heavy barrel helps absorb heat for sustained consistency but your right that the trade off is a heavy ass gun. Damm I wish they made a 1 inch bull barrel saiga. That would be my must buy next gun for

Vmax 125 grain double tap has that honor so far in both types using a 12x scope on the bags with even timed intervals. I think the reason why more people don't get better groups is their ammo quality and maybe lack of better optics. Show up at my outdoor range next time I go and you will believe.