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Replacement barrel for Saiga 7.62x39


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What exactly is wrong with the barrel?

If it's salvageable as a pistol/SBR barrel, you may be able to sell it to mitigate the cost of replacement - or even sell the rifle as a parts kit and buy another one for less than the cost of obtaining and installing a new barrel.

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Fred....

There is a wealth of knowledge on this forum.  Some have been around Saigas for many years. (I only go back to 2008 with them)    Just asking if replacements are available and a few kurt statements does not exactly elicit the best answers. If you shared more information, like what the specific problem was, the members could probably help you out a lot more, or suggest alternatives.  I'm just thinking aloud here....

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We messed up with the lower handguard retainer notch. We welded, re did the notch and it is still loose. We effed up x2.

 

After all the reading I have been doing around forums, putting heat on the barrel was not a good idea. Now I'm affraid of shooting the thing one day and the barrel breaking around the lower handguard retainer area.

 

Brand new, never shot saiga, so this hurts a little bit.sad.png

 

I never thought finding a replacement barrel would be so difficult.

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If you used any kind of arc welder, I wouldn't worry about it.

I doubt you were dumb enough to use an OA rig. I wouldn't worry much about it - the barrel is fairly thick in that area - thick enough that cutting a big notch into it isn't even remotely problematic. Absorbing a little bit of extra heat while you ran a bead should not impact it. If you heated it up with a 5700-6300 degree OA torch - yeah it's probably fucked.

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I would contact Green Mountain and tell them exactly what you need. Yes, a 23mm barrel can be made to work in a 22m barrel - it just needs to be turned down. If the barrel is profiled correctly, the gas block and front sight block will press right on.

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I have an unfired saiga 7.62 barrel with the rear sight block that was given to me by a friend which i can part with if you are interested. It had a knicked crown so he got it recrowned but found it had a stepped chamber so it never went back on the gun.

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