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  1. All great info and I, and the Saiga Forum, appreciate everyone coming together to help this member. I only ask one favor from all involved here...If you are directly or indirectly offering services please be a business member. For those that are business members I extend my "virtual" hand and would like to thank you for offering your advice, comments and participation in this thread.

     

    Respectfully,

    MCASSgt New River

     

    Sorry, I won't mention it again.

    I was a business member here, but stopped for a couple reasons. One, it was getting on the expensive side, and I cannot count it on my taxes anymore. Two, I got totally screwed over by another business member here, and nobody cared.

    And no, it wasn't MD Arms.

  2. Well, as said this gun isn't for everyone. I have a friend who bought one and had it converted, only to sell it to keep his Mossberg 500. He just wasn't enamored with it.

    No big deal.

    Really, everywhere and with everything, you will only hear the complaints, not the praises. Sure, there are some praises, but it'll be 99% complaints. It's just like at work, your boss only complains, he doesn't say anything about what you do right (unless you're real lucky).

     

    Also, in Russia, the weapons culture isn't quite the same as here. They don't have guns as "toys", with "cheap, weak loads" to "play" with. The gun was designed as a law enforcement and battle weapon, fire full powered ammunition. We are "redesigning" the gun to do something it wasn't originally designed to do, and expecting it to work flawlessly.

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  3. I guess just to cut barrel,tapco trigger, flash hider,stock grip, move trigger forward. Jerk didn't even fill n holes from trigger movement. U know how much it cost to get gas system shortened?

     

    Umm, $XXX I'd ask that before you publicly offer your services you become a business member.

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  4. For Post '86 Samples, any SOT Manufacturer can have them, and any SOT Dealer can have them if they also have an LE Demo letter. Of course, LE agencies and Gov't agencies can have them.

    He's an SOT Dealer, and provided a letter.

    So really, his company owns it. Unlike regular firearms, or even other NFA items, should he close the business, he'd have to sell or turn in any Post Samples. We are the same in that respect. Persons cannot own them.

     

    There's a 5 min demo video I made for it on Youtube.

    Search "Gunfixr Select Fire Saiga"

  5. Let's see if I can get everything answered.

    I used to have a Business Section membership, and so don't have an email in my profile. However, I added an email in my profile. Honestly, I don't get on here much in the last year or so.

    As for services, we are an SOT Manufacturer, so we can do pretty much anything. I work on pretty much anything, not just Saigas.

    While Tom had/has a great idea, as it is a 1st Generation kind of thing, I saw areas where I thought it could be improved. It can be made to work, but I think as is, it will always be super finicky as to how it's fitted. I haven't had a chance to install it yet, but I have one of his units I made a change to that I think would solve most of the problems experienced with it. No, that change will not get around his patent. If it turns out to work as I think it will, I'd actually tell him what it is, and he can decide whether to use it or not. I haven't found his patent on the patent site, but based on his description of what was covered, mine isn't an issue.

    Can it be DIY'ed? Yes, but it would take skill beyond just normal conversion type work. Like Toms, a slot is cut into the ejector block, it is just wider than his. The bolt has a slot cut in it also, but it is shallower. The factory manual BHO is unaffected in any way. A hole must be tapped. If you do not want the bolt to drop, the bolt face has a slight modification right where the BHO catches, to create a mechanical disadvantage for the BHO.

    Do magazines need to be modified? Mostly no. While to "beak" on Toms is in the center of the gun,mine is offset. It is right next to the feedlip of the magazine.Some magazines have a deeper area between the feedlips than others. Notably, Surefire mags are shallower, and hit the beak, preventing the bolt from locking back. Filing the area where it hits a bit deeper fixes that. This is the only modification needed.

    Feeding is totally unaffected, as the rounds come all the way up to the magazine feedlips and feed as if the BHO were not present. I could not find a way to do this on the Cadiz unit, which is one of the main reasons it is so difficult to get to work right.

    Will it work with magwells? In truth, I don't know, as it hasn't been put in one yet. However, since the magazine sits in the same position, it should work fine.

    So far, I make each one as I need them. I have too big a work load to just make a bunch, and they'd still need fitting. I have considered getting a bunch of blanks made, but haven't had the chance to sit down and make a drawing and get bids. To keep them cheap, they'd almost need to be wire EDM cut.

  6. Well, after seeing the pics I just kinda scanned over the rest. The pics show a fullsize gas system, which means it canot be an 8" gun, since the gas system takes up over 9" of barrel.

    It looks like about a 10 1/2 or 11" barrel.

    I built a gun that short without shortening the gas system once, just because the customer wanted to save some coin. It would only run the hotter game loads, the 3 1/4 dram stuff. It would not run the Walmart type stuff at all.

    So first, if the paperwork says 8", your builder doesn't know what he's doing, as he can't even read. Second, even at it's current length, it'll need the gas system shortened to run the cheapest ammo.

  7. We don't carry the same ammo as the Walmart bulk pack. Both the Federal and the Winchester Universal that Walmart carries is a 3 dram powder load under a 1 1/8oz shot load. Whenever I use this load for testing, I have to go get some, just like everybody else, and so I don't always have it at the shop.

    What we do have is the Winchester game loads, which is a low brass birdshot load with a 3 1/4 dram powder load under a 1oz shot load.

    High brass is typically a 3 3/4 dram powder load under at least a 1 1/8 or 1 1/4 oz shot load.

    I tested the gun with the low brass game loads, with which all was fine. I'm not sure why it would not work with the Walmart loads if it worked before.

    What you can do is remove the BHO, and take a coil or two off its spring. This will lessen any drag it applies to the bolt. It will also lessen the amount of magazine tension required to deactivate the BHO, so you may be able to turn the drum spring back down.Turning the drum spring up will definately increase the drag on the bolt. I had one customer whose BHO wasn't acting right, and it was due to the spring being too weak, so I increased the spring some. Cutting the spring will however make it easier for the bolt to drop when installing a loaded mag.

    All you have to do is take out the screw on the side where the front rivet was in the ejector block, and the BHO will come out the top over the mag catch. It goes back in the same way. This also means you can test the gun with and without the BHO to see exactly what happens.

     

    Great review. Too bad the contest is over. I few pictures or maybe some video and you would have had a winner on your hands.

     

    Contest ??

  8. I think most here would agree that the best gun to use in a fight is the one you have with you.

    Therefore, since we cannot have a rifle with us all the time, we need to practice the unusual with what we will have with us. Would I rather have a rifle? Sure I would. But, like most, I cannot carry a rifle all the time. In fact, here in VA., it's illegal to have a loaded rifle or shotgun in your vehicle ( a law related to hunting, actually). So, after having fought my way to my vehicle to retrieve my rifle, it's not even ready, as it needs to be loaded first.

    As for being "outgunned" and going to lose just because the badguy has a rifle, that's bullshit. The weapons' user is the weapon. All weapons are just tools, mechanical devices with which we can transfer our will onto another. Our will is what gets it done. If the other guy has a rifle, and you a handgun, and your skill is better than his, he still loses. You cannot miss fast enough or often enough to win.

    While personally I've been slack on the 100yd handgun shooting, I do not fear taking the shot at 50yds at all.

    I carry reloads also. While I agree that dropping a couple badguys will definately deter the rest, I'll have more ammo, just in case I'm wrong. After all, the consequences of having too much ammo are far less than the consequences of not having enough.

    As far as I'm concerned, there's only two times you can have too much ammo; when you're swimming, and when you're on fire.

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  9. I just replied to your pm.

    I don't log on here much anymore, there's just way too much noise to signal ratio.

    Hell, I don't even get to check my emails but a couple or three times a week anymore, just got too much other crap going on.

  10. Well Pauly, I'll tell you what happened when I tried Cerakote.

    For starters, I have a blast cabinet loaded with about 80 grit aluminum oxide, which is suitable for base blasting for Duracoat, Moly Resin, and Cerakote. I have a baking oven that goes up to 400 degrees, and will hold several barreled actions. I spary with a Badger airbrush, using either a 1oz or 2oz jar, depending. I do have a smaller size HVLP gun, but since I like to get all of the inside as well as the outside, it just didn't suit me, and I went back to the airbrush.

    Like Duracoat, Cerakote mixes with a hardener, so once mixed, it's either used or thrown out. Unlike Duracoat, Cerakote stays tacky indefinately, or did for me. No matter whether I preheated the parts or not. It was still tacky after an hour, and yes, it was warm in the shop. I only used it on 3 or 4 guns, and every one has fingerprints in them, since they wouldn't dry off. You can handle Duracoat in anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes. Also, it is very difficult to get it to draw into an airbrush. It needs to be sprayed from a gravity feed system, and the only airbrush gravity fed systems are the small detail guns. It also goes on a bit thicker than they advertise, I had some fitting to do afterwards on a 1911 I did. Even Duracoat, which is just basically an epoxy paint, will airbrush.

    Moly Resin, on the other hand, requires no mixing, just pour it into the sprayer and shoot. You do need to shake it up good, and agitating the sprayer jar occaisionally is helpful also. When finished, pour the unused part back in the bottle. No trying to guess how much to mix so you don't waste too much. It goes on so thin you'd swear you're shooting colored water. You can handle the parts carefully in 5 to 10 minutes, depending on air temp and part temp. Changing part temp will change the surface texture, as well as spray distance. It's about the same price as Duracoat, which is cheaper than Cerakote. Since there is no hardener, it never cures until you bake it. Therefore, you don't have to worry about pot time and cleanup, it will clean up when you're ready.

    For colors, Duracoat takes the cake, with over 120 colors. Moly Resin has about 20-30 colors. Cerakote has close to 40 colors. I don't do Duracoat anymore unless someone wants something I cannot get in Moly Resin. The Cerakote was just too difficult to work with, and the results just sisn't look as good as Moly Resin.

    Cerakote is the hardest, followed by Moly Resin and then Duracoat and Alumahyde. There's a thread here about gas puck fouling, and there's a pic of the select fire S12 I did last year for JMacken. He has a close up of the selector. I sent him that gun late last summer. It's moly Resined. The selector has hardly worn through where they typically make that groove in the side of the receiver. That's pretty good.

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  11. We've looked at that law extensively, and even asked several people in state gov to get a definition.

    We've gotten no answers.

    However, as I recall, the law specifically bans the Streetsweeper, as well as banning the possession or sale of a spring driven rotary feeding device for a shotgun that will hold more than 10rds.

    I can look at it again, but I don't remember the part about the magazine and a folding stock.

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