spur0701

If Ace isn't a one man shop it's close to it, a very small operation from what I understand....which is amazing considering how much product they put out and how widely it's distributed. Just be patient.

I know this topic's been done to death but I guess that's why I need to ask the question.......I did a search and just got too many hits. I've got two 308s I've converted and want to put brakes on to soften recoil.....I don't care how loud they are but want the most effective, shortest, and cheapest ones....I'll be TIG welding them on.......also want them to be US made I guess (FCG, butt stock, and grip are now US).......any suggestions or lessons learned? I was thinking about the short FAL brake, they're under $20, short, and since they are similar to the brkaes on the two CETMEs I have sho

CDNN had 40 left a few days ago but now they're out.........who has then in stock at a resonable price and what's the deal on the new importer?

Well if you look at TAPCOs history they have come out with a lot of injected moulded products. AK SAW grips, then FAL SAW grips, then FAL T48 hand guards, then FAL SAW butt stocks, then the folding AK butt stock, then the new AK hand guards. So they or someone they are connected with has some expirence in tooling up for injected moulding products....which I always thought was very expensive to tool up for a production run of that stuff....I think I remember someone on another board saying like 100K to tool up for a run of something....I dunno. But Saiga mags are injected moulded so I wouldn

So I took some material off of the rear bottom portion of the trigger and that solved the problem with the safety.......and I thought I solved the problems with the triggers reseting. I just polished the connections just a little, I don't like a light trigger on a shotgun. When you cycle the action by hand in the gun room the triggers reset. But at the range and in the field sometimes the trigger fails to reset and you have to push it forward.....the colder it is the more the problem seems to manifest......any ideas or similar problems?

You can get them from EAA as a spare part, but it's about $40. Or you can buy one of the new handguards that TAPCO is selling, they are fittable but don't know how much work they take....there's a recent post about it. Or you can strip the woodtech finish off the handgaurd....that's what I did, I used citrastrip....but I still had to repaint them. Or you can just repaint them over the woodtech finish....if you do a search you'll find some post about it a few months back......

Hmmm.....I've bought these from various suppliers and used them on various AKs with no problems. I recently bought 3 from K-Var and have had two of them break (at the rear of the slot that fits on the rail) on Saiga-12s. Anyone else have a problem with these? I've done 6 conversions and on the first three I used a few I had bought from different suppliers over the past several years and they have worked fine and stood up to the recoil......even after 200 rounds or so. But the most recent batch I got from K-Var, two of three have failed now.....and we've been shooting low recoil stuff

No he's not non-typical, a solid 8 that's at least 3 to 3.5 years old. There's some good hunting in PG couty if you scout the right places. I got him behind a friends house, she has 9 acers and her property butts up against some farm land.....not to far from where Rt 301 and Rt 50 meet. Here's a two year old six point I took the Sat before last, actually had a bigger body than this last one.....why he wasn't an 8 I don't know......broke one of his tines on the way out of the woods, but a friend is fixing it. I took him with my folding stock S-12 too.....remind me to tell youthe story of

Oh, I hunt in PG county (no limit on does there) but I would never actually live there.....I live in Charles County (White Plains, just south of Waldorf)....its PG County, along with Montgomery and Baltimore that ruin the whole state.....but you know that.......

Here's the one I took with mine on Sat morning, it was a long shot for a Saiga I thought, about 70 yards from a 25 foot tree stand. I was using Brenneke 1 oz slugs. I've cut the barrel down to 18.5 inches and put a Romanian folding stock on it, makes it very easy to handle. This was in Prince Georges County Maryland about 15 miles outside Washington DC, he's a nice buck for this area.

Well, I'm not going to say I told you so....wish you had given me the benifit of the doubt. I thought mine was taking so long because my citrastrip was really old, about 3-4 years. It took forever, about 36 hours to breach the finish, but as soon as you get a little hole to starts to bubble it off faster, but will still take another day or so. I had the some look afterward and had to hit them with some black paint.

Hey....I put it on, globs of it, left it for 15 min and nothing......slopped some more on and left it over night, nothing......the next morning after it had started to bubble. So if it dried and left that white haze, can I scrub that off.....of just hit it with a little paint?

Well I had some stuff called "Citrastrip"....some orange goo type stuff. I plopped it on and after leaving it on 36 hours it finally got a hold on the woodtech finish and stripped it off.....it seems once you break the finish somewhere it's able to get underneith and bubble the finish off. Still it left a white haze to the plastic, I might still have to hit it with some paint afterall.....

I want to strip the wood tech finish off the hand guard. I read a post in the last two weeks that talked about a product that would work but I can't seem to find it or it was on another board and I can't remember.....I think it was "Kleen Kuter" or "stripper" or something....anyone have a clue?

Doing conversions for some friends and must have gotten the edge of the file too close to one trigger guard when I was filing down the rivet....it broke at the bend when I was grinding the edge. Anyone have an old one they didn't use...I'll pay postage and handling.....just don't want to dick with ordering one from K-Var..........