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April 18th, 2020, 11:20 AM #31
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The analogy is perfect because you bought a military shotgun that was designed to shoot high powered loads and you expected it to run everything. It was never designed to run everything, much like the Civic was never designed to be a sports car. If you're telling me you couldn't run high powered loads out of the box then yes, you bought a turd. You could have also had the gas setting wrong or any number of other things. I also wonder how much of it could have been caused by the modifications they had to make to meet the import regulations of sporting purpose. They weren't designed to have trigger groups in a retarded location.
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April 18th, 2020, 11:23 AM #32
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April 18th, 2020, 11:26 AM #33
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Si vis pacem, para bellumμολ ν λαβέWhat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms!
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April 18th, 2020, 11:32 AM #34
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Okay.
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April 24th, 2020, 09:40 AM #35
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I got one last year from a buddy, unconverted, unfired. When I took it out for testing, it wouldn't cycle target loads, regular 2 3/4” loads or 3" correctly. Gas adjustment knob was set to high (only 2 settings). Got this: https://www.carolinashooterssupply.c...plug-saiga.htm
Now it cycles everything from low recoil Target to regular Target and beyond just fine. Stay away from promag magazines, mine needed considerable filing internally to allow shells to freely move up to the chamber. Paid $700 for it.
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April 24th, 2020, 11:06 AM #36Active Member
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Thanks all for your input. I am quite the noob when it comes to saiga shotguns. Turns out the previous owner did just put a tapco stock on it. I've done a ton a research on converting them and obviously this in its current configuration is not converted. For now I am going to put the original Sporter stock back on to make it legal. I am debating between converting it, enjoying it the way it is uncoverted, or selling it. Haha.
I do have one question, if I put the above-mentioned gas plug in and keep the rest of the gun untouched will that trigger 922r?
Thanks!
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April 24th, 2020, 08:56 PM #37
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Well it looks like I'm late to the party. Full disclosure, I'm a fanboy. I own three S-12s, one bone stock, one I heavily chopped and modded and the last one a pro conversion. Plus a Lynx-12 because, well I'm a fanboy...
As for the 922r legality, it could be if has the gas puck replaced. To check that you have to unscrew the gas plug (the #1 and #2 setting thing) then rack the bolt and hopefully the silver puck drops out. IF it doesn't its been fired, probably more than a few times. The US gas pucks are marked, russian ones are not.
I doubt someone took the effort to make a Tapco G2 AK trigger fit into that particular gun. The Tapco G2 AK trigger group will fit with minor modifications. With the trigger in that position only the hammer could be modified to fit.
Personally I don't particularly care for the "conversions" that put the pistol grip behind the receiver. It doesn't look like any permanent damage has been done and the gun still could be "fully converted".
To answer the original question about value, the market isn't what they used to be. With the Lynx-12 being a good clone that can be had for $500-600 there are options for "lower end" of the scale. The " 3-gun" crowd won't spend the money on a gun that isn't "fully converted". Low end $600, high end $900. Depends on how bad someone wants it.The resident Saiga snob
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April 28th, 2020, 04:58 PM #38Active Member
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May 4th, 2020, 09:44 PM #39
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No the "sporting" configuration is not subject to 922r. That's how they come into the country so you don't have to change parts. Some folks still change the gas plug to increase reliability with cheap birdshot. The plug does not count towards 922r, the gas puck is the "piston" and that counts for 922r.
Debate is still open if 922r applies if you throw a drum magazine (or anything larger than 8 round for that matter) in a "sporter" configuration gun.The resident Saiga snob
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