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Hi Guys,

 

Would you know how to take off the front sight, so I can decrease the barrel length to 16

 

What tools would I need?

 

thanks

 

Stu

You need a punch to get the pins out and a brass or wood dowel to pound the sight off with a hammer. If you're just going to chop the barrel make sure the OD is the same, and do not cut it to exactly 16 inches--make it 16 1/4 to assure it's legal. It should be recrowned with the proper crowning tool and use cutting oil. You may need to drill/mill a small channel for the FSB pins to be reinserted without the barrel getting in the way.

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Hi Guys,

 

Would you know how to take off the front sight, so I can decrease the barrel length to 16

 

What tools would I need?

 

thanks

 

Stu

You need a punch to get the pins out and a brass or wood dowel to pound the sight off with a hammer. If you're just going to chop the barrel make sure the OD is the same, and do not cut it to exactly 16 inches--make it 16 1/4 to assure it's legal. It should be recrowned with the proper crowning tool and use cutting oil. You may need to drill/mill a small channel for the FSB pins to be reinserted without the barrel getting in the way.

 

 

First, your Saiga barrel steps down, the diameter were your FSB is, will be smaller

that the rest of the barrel, you can do 2 things, step the barrel down or ream the FSB

to fit the bigger diameter of the barrel as you relocate the FSB, if you going to use the

original FSB, now the barrel have the notch for the pins of the FSB.

 

If you going to use the original FSB I don't think hammer and wood will be a good idea

but each its own, Now on the FSB and GB on some rifles the only thing holding the

parts are the pins and the press fit of the parts, but in some rifles

the FSB and GB are hold by dimples in each side plus the pins don't go all the

way true the parts, I have 2 guns like that brand new that I going to customize

for my kids, and in this guns the dimples have to be drill to a certain point

plus the pins have to be drill too because they cant be push out, just to

press the parts off with a 12 ton press.

 

There you go, any question feel free to ask.

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Are you saying that all saiga rifles have pins in the front sight?

 

thanks

 

 

Yes 2 pins that go from one side to the other side in must cases

just like any other AK rifle, see post above for exception to the case, dont you

have a rifle? look on the FSB and GB, you push the pins out and

press the part out.

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Are you saying that all saiga rifles have pins in the front sight?

 

thanks

 

 

Yes 2 pins that go from one side to the other side in must cases

just like any other AK rifle, see post above for exception to the case, dont you

have a rifle? look on the FSB and GB, you push the pins out and

press the part out.

 

 

Yes I do have a saiga rifle 762x39

 

Have read your comments & yes I do understand now.

 

thanks

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Are you saying that all saiga rifles have pins in the front sight?

 

thanks

last load I got in , half of them did not have pin's . The gasblock and front sight were secured by spot pressing into dimples drilled into the barrel . Like Molot does with the Veprs .

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Are you saying that all saiga rifles have pins in the front sight?

 

thanks

last load I got in , half of them did not have pin's . The gasblock and front sight were secured by spot pressing into dimples drilled into the barrel . Like Molot does with the Veprs .

 

That sucks unless you plan on replacing them...

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Are you saying that all saiga rifles have pins in the front sight?

 

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last load I got in , half of them did not have pin's . The gasblock and front sight were secured by spot pressing into dimples drilled into the barrel . Like Molot does with the Veprs .

 

That sucks unless you plan on replacing them...

yep . price of a 103 just went up $50.00 because of it .

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The 2 I got just now, the pin dont go all the way true, just like half and yes the dimples are there

like red jackets says, damn just more work to do something so simple, and I guess

waste the GB and FSB after dealing with the dimples, or unless you want costume

made GB and FSB with holes on each side back on the gun, hey more money for those ones LOL.

you can say that the holes on the parts are to relieve stresses on the parts or gun. :D

 

Hey Stuart2 I hope you dont have the new ones with dimples on each side of the

GB and FSB, if you got that ones, the way is to drill on the dimples

but not all the way, just enough to make them weak and press the part off

but is not much meat and the barrel is right there careful what you do.

 

And in my case like half of pins, drill the damn things to all the way true plus the damn

dimples.

 

Damn it sucks big camel dick, more work to do something that was so easy and simple.

 

Hey Red jacket, do you think I hear that izhmash buy molot, can be that

is cheap for them just to dimple the barrel and since molot was set that way

already, we are going to see a lot of new Saigas that way, just speculating

since the barrel on my new .223 same diameter of my 7.62x39, cuts

for the hand guard retaining plate and dimples on the GB and FSB or

is just they made the guns with what ever was on hand at the time

it was on the manufacture assembly line.

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