Gunfixr

Comparing paintball guns is a waste of time, since paintball guns are not classified as firearms and you can do what you please with their fire actuations. Just like BB/Pellet guns. I have a pellet gun with a suppressor. Legal. Why? Because a pellet gun is not classified as a firearm, and the suppressor is designed so that it cannot be fitted to a firearm. Any device that will fire more than one round with only one operation of the device will be considered full auto by ATF and therefore illegal. The only exception to this is the "fire on pull, again on release" setup. Perhaps because moveme

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Leo, no problem, we can swap FFLs. I'll talk to the owner, who's name is on the FFL, I work for him. He buys and sells, I fix and customize. Pics of my personal S12 are in the pics thread, and pics of some of my other work is in the tech section in the Duracoat kit thread. I custom built both of the FALs, and the short one I custom shortened the gas system and made the stock from scratch, just a few of the things I did to that rifle. I can go into detail if anybody wants. I'll have to take some closeups of some of the details of my S12 and add them to my pic post.

I am not looking to step on any toes here, so I defer to the business members first, but if you cannot find someone here to do it in the time frame you are looking for or for whatever reason cannot strike an agreement, I wil do it for you. I have done both rifles and shotguns. I do work out of an FFL shop. I am in Virginia. Viking Kitty Armory has first shot, I only want to hear from you if you guys can't work something out.

You could do that with the rifles, but with the shotguns, the catch housing is part of a casting that is riveted up inside the receiver. I didn't drill mine and rivet/bolt it, I simply TIG welded mine together.

As someone fairly new here myself, I'm not inclined to get into this one, but I certainly have GOBs point here down pat. I agree that Tombstone is perhaps the best western film IMHO, I watch it regularly. There's nothing like coming home from a hot day at the range shooting Blackpowder from a bunch of cowboy guns at a CAS match, and AFTER PUTTING THE AMMO AWAY, cranking up Tombstone on the surround system, cracking open a cold one, and putting the guns to the hot water test.

I would, and did mine a week ago.

I guess it kinda depends on what you want, but Glock 19s are a lot easier to come by right now than S12s.

I added an AK front sight, took the rib off, and used the original rear as a housing for a ghost ring rear sight. It works, but slugs at 100 yds are grouping kinda large, so I made a new rear sight completely from scratch. It has a ghost ring type hole with a U-notched blade directly in front of it. When you look through the hole, it looks like a half moon with the flat side down, and the flat side having a U-notch in the middle of it. This way the notch can be used for slug shooting at distance, and the half moon hole can be used like a ghost ring for shot. This was dreamed up as a direct re

I added side loop type hook points at the front of the stock and the rear of the handguard so I can use single point, double point, or three point slings equipped with HK style claw hooks.

I did something similar to mine, but I made it myself. It only comes back into the trigger guard on one side, for the trigger finger when fired right handed, the other side simply sticks out a little farther towards the side of the gun to facilitate easier mag loading the old fashoined way. There's a pic in the S12 pic thread, as well as the Duracoat thread here in Tech. I can snap a closeup if you want.

I have Duracoated multiple guns, but I use an airbrush that I already owned. I also don't use canned air. You can get a fairly cheap small air compressor for about $50 from Harbor Freight that will more than suffice. My airbrush isn't gravity feed, it vacuum draws from a bottle underneath, and I don't have to thin it at all. I haven't used any of the high heat stuff, but on an AR I did, I cooked the barrel part by running 5 30rd mags through it one after the other at about 1 shot per second intervals. The barrel turned brown. The handguards were too hot to touch, so it was quite hot. You do ne

Mine was the same way, it could be pushed out, and would walk out partway from firing. I fixed it. I made a new pin with a small rounded rivet type head at one end and a divot drilled into the other end, long enough to rivet the drilled end when installed. It's basically like a rifle mag release pin now. Works great.

There wouldn't be any red tape, provided that the Polychoke was permanently attached, and that the overall length of the barrel with the Polychoke attached BUT THE ADJUSTING SLEEVE REMOVED was at least 18". Since the adjusting sleeve is not permanent, it won't count as barrel length. The barrel measurement would be from the breech to the end of the fingers of the choke. It could be argued that the breech end of the barrel for measurement purposes would be at the end of the fingers, or the extension back past the breech, but you would probably have to go to court, and ATF would have to remove t

Well, there you go, 'nuff said. I wasn't saying what I did to mine was required for the gun to function, I'm just one of those guys who can't leave anything alone. It may work just fine, but I WILL find a way to improve on it, even if only a small amount. It's the OCD.

First off, what you are noticing is the extractor. Because it is a 12 gauge, I suppose, and the case rim is so large, the bolt doesn't have a recessed breech face like the rifles do. Therefore the extractor sticks out from the breech face so it can grab the rim and hold it. If you ease the bolt carrier to the point where it stops and watch the extractor while you push it shut, you'll see it cam up onto the bevel on the side of the chamber some as the bolt carrier pushes the bolt into final position and it rotates to lock. This is normal, as the extractor will close to a position lower than the

That may be, as they (Centerfire) told me that they get them from Saiga. The one I got from Gilbert's is a real Poly Choke, so marked, and made in the USA. I think it was one nickel more in price.

It is the same type of spring, but it is different. The coil wound section has less coils than an AK mag catch spring, so it is not as wide.

As far as the Keepshooting mags go, all I see are 5 round mags. I want higher capacity. As far as modding the mags goes, the 5 newer ones were working without mods, I'm just anal about reliability. The 2 first ones had hung up once, but only once. Using them, I believe, would have broken them in without mods. Again, I'm just anal about reliability so I didn't wait for break in. As far as rounding the top edge goes, I did it to ease insertion to make it faster and easier so under the time clock, it wouldn't be an issue. As I have 7 now, I'm not planning at this time to get any more, as any ves

I ordered one from Centerfire Systems for mine. After getting the runaround from them for two weeks and still no shipped part, I cancelled and ordered it from Gilberts Guns. They shipped it the same day. Same price, too.

As mentioned, check the law compliance section for the parts count stuff. As for why we do the conversions, I imagine there are a few reasons. One is cool factor. It looks more like an AK than a hunting shotgun afterwards and that's just cool looking. Two, is practicality. I find it much more user friendly after conversion. It's much less long and ungainly. For tactical purposes, such as HD or competition, its user-friendliness improvements make it quicker and more efficient. Third, the antigunners just hate the AK and anything like it. Screw 'em, that's a good reason right there. Fourth, m

I only purchased my Saiga 12 a month ago, due to being unsatisfied with my 870 in 3 Gun competition and watching the Saigas dominate the shotgun sections. I wanted one anyway, but this cemented it. When I purchased it, I also bought 2 of the AGP 10 rd mags from the same dealer. I later ordered 5 more of the AGP mags from another dealer off the 'net. I waited to test fire and sight in the gun until I had finished my modifications to save on ammo consumption, ammo prices being what they are. Details of the mods are in the picture thread. When I test fired it and the mags (I have yet to use the

Well, hopefully I'll see you there. I do, actually, have it sighted at 100 yds with 1 oz. slugs. But they don't do the 80 yd thing every month, so they might or might not have it this month. If so, I'm about as ready as I can be.

You know, Topmaul, the stage will be different next time. Are you coming again for Feb 23? I'll be there, trying out my new Saiga 12.

I did cut some clearance on my BHO to clear the sleeve on the trigger pin, as ti didn't go all the way down, and filed down the safety tab to get it to clear both the BHO and the back of the disconnector. Now it just has a skinny tab that reaches down to the back of the trigger and blocks it. FYI, it had to be welded up longer anyway, as the trigger had so much slop in safe that it would almost fire. The Saiga rifle I converted was the same way.