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Sweet That's one clean riffle you have there. I don't even remember when mine was that clean. Clean it is. That chrome lined gas chamber sparkles when the light strikes it at just the right angle. Thanks its a Kodak C180 with 10.2 Megapixels many close ups were done with the micro setting. The lense is the standard one that isnonremovable, but I used it on the wide angle setting. Its does pretty good for something that cost $100 new. Yes, I will. Thanks Thanks. I will go ahead and get a few head ons and have them up in a few minutes.

Conversion pictures coming soon.

Some preconversion reference pictures. I can't tell if the barrel muzzle is threaded. Peeking through the bore on the chamber end the chamber is stepped.

Did your intrafuse help accuracy any?

I am suppose to be getting a replacement retainer when I get around to sending it in. I had ideas for another saiga and figured the intrafuse might work. I do like the idea of an aluminum handguard for durability but hate the attachment rails. I guess I might just keep the factory one on my next project.

Well damm. I thought I was the only one having bad luck. A melted handguard sucks.

How well does this compare to other aftermarket handguards or the factory one? It looks like it's made of that tough plastic the choate stocks are made of but I have only seen pictures and not held one yet. How does it rest against the barrel at the front where does it contact against?

I formally thank you JK-47. I'm sure many others thank you as well.

Sorry I meant internals like bolt, carrier, etc... I keep seeing posts here and there about the lack of saiga parts. With a 5.45 saiga everything should fit from a milspec surplus ak74. Can anyone possibly verify this by swapping in an ak74 carrier and bolt to check if it locks into battery? I think verifying this would benefit this forum. Thank you in advance.

Last weekend I shot wolf, military classic, and brass cased ammo through a 2008 imported saiga. All the saiga ammo was stepped steel cased and brass cased.

"The firing line" milled ak maker out of OK claims his test model has over 100,000 rounds through it with no replacement parts and its made of chinese internals according to him. A member of another board claims he has over 40,000 through his Maddi-Chinese Mak 90 Century Arms S/A franken ak hybrid one of the worst commercial mismatched import fiasco products ever. He claims he has not cleaned, lubed, or replaced any parts (chinese internals) in over 40,000 rounds. It still works fine the last time he posted about it. The only parts I would ever worry about are the disconnector spring, recoi

The only two parts you will not easily find are a 7.62x39 bolt and extractor. you can modify an ak74 extractor to work. The bolt should never break. If you get a 5.45 saiga, then really all the parts are available as we speak, even the bolt and the extractor.

Did you see the 4th jugg blow up in the you tube video link? $24 for a box of 20 Yep, I did. I also saw what happened to the 3rd jug when the Wolf MC JHP hit it, (Barnaul JHP rounds are a little more destructive). It's too bad that the 4th jug left the frame, I would've been interested to see how far it was flung. So, let's say that the Double Tap is a tiny bit more destructive than Russian ammo, even Barnaul.. is it 5x more effective? Of course not, and yet it costs more than 5x as much per round. Not even remotely worth it, imo. ymmv Cool video though, and thanks f

I have blown up water juggs in the past with .223 balistic tips, hollow points, and m193. I don't ever remember a jugg blow up that much as the 7.62x39 dt did. I have heard people argue for years that most russian 7.62x39 bullets don't expand well enough except for saspan/military classic 8m3 fragmenting like crazy. Thats why I think this is a fantastic ammo development for 7.62x39. If Washington ever decides to finally call in their political capital and screw the imported ammo market, we are going to need a good supplier stateside. I guess thats also why I hope to see domestic ammo supp

Did you see the 4th jugg blow up in the you tube video link? $24 for a box of 20

http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?showtopic=42816

I will offer to shoot any vest or material you might be interested in sending to me to be shot with 7.62x39 double tap. Shipping is on your dime. I am planning on trying to find some steel plates to shoot with both FMJ, 8M3 HP, and Double tap.

Plastic Plastic tip ammo has no problem penetrating kevlar. SS 196 SS 196 versus kevlar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVcWqxi0EQ 7.62x39 is moving faster than ss 196 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.7x28mm SS196SR (sporting round) The SS196 cartridge was introduced in 2005.[27] It features a 2.6 g (40 grain) Hornady V-Max bullet which it propels at a velocity of roughly 1650 ft/s when fired from the Five-seven.[27] The polycarbonate tip used in the V-Max bullet acts as a wedge, enhancing expansion of the bullet.

The link does not work for me. I think that its the one though. They stopped impoorting that mount sometime back. I got mine years ago. Its built very well but not perfect apparently.

Thanks. Yes, I am planning on shooting water juggs and wet news paper/phone books. I may try and use plywood to stop the resulting bullet parts from going any further. There was so much crap on that public range I couldn't see where the bullet frangments went. Brassfetcher did a gel test with the same hornady vmax bullet http://www.brassfetcher.com/D&S%20Manufacturing%20123gr%20Hornady%20V-Max.html Penetrated to 11.9", Bullet core recovered at 0.609" average diameter. Of course water by itself causes far more violent expansion.

round 2 is black box round 3 is military classic 8m3

I managed to get a chance to visit the public rifle range. I got there when it was 30 something degrees F. The first thing I was able to accomplish before dozens of people showed up was to shoot water juggs. The first jugg was hit with a FMJ, the next with a wolf black box hollow point, the next with a military classic (8m3 bullet) hollow point, and finally with a double tap (hornady vmax bullet). The FMJ impact did not appear to result in much destruction. The Wolf black box hp, the military classic hp ,and the doubletap created more disruption with exponential increases in that order.

My 2003 Russian Vepr 7.62x39 does not have the case step.