Arsenal Legion Saiga AK47 info?

[Ryanxia]

I was wondering about this particular AK47. As you can see from the picture it is stamped; SAIGA, LEGION IZHEVSK RUSSIA, & Arsenal Las Vegas NV USA.

I'm familiar with Saiga AK's, and the Arsenal brand is well known. I guess the Legion offshoot of Izhevsk is geared towards nicer/higher end AK's?

Does anyone know, were these rifles factory built and imported in sporter configuration (before the ban) and converted by Arsenal? Or did Arsenal start with a stripped down version?

I guess I'm mostly curious as to what exactly Arsenal did to these particular rifles? Normally I think they built their AK's with Bulgarian parts kits but hopefully someone here is more knowledgeable than me when it comes to this.

 

[mshootnit]

Those were sold as the Sgl series, they are converted russian saigas. So the bullet guide added, trigger group, buttstock, trigger guard, and muzzle device were replaced/ added. The handguard, handguard retainer, gas tube were also added.
At one time they Arsenal were selling a version that had the handguard and brake conversion done but not the back half. Not sure if theg all came that way...

Bulgarian Arsenals are not kit builds.

 

[Ryanxia]

Thanks for the info. That's what I was looking for.

 

[mshootnit]

They are a quality AK by the way. My only fault to them was the thin polymer like finish which could strip off with powder blast cleaner. I had two SGL 5.45x39. One was more accurate and definitely a keeper. Also Saigas in general are good quality AKs.
I think the Saiga 308 16" is one of the best ones ever brought in. Veprs are also excellent. My current one is an SLR107 Bulgarian Arsenal(stamped). Been a solid fan of these since I bought my first milled Bulgarian Arsenal in 1999. That was a low cap single stack rifle I bought for 450.
You can convert a Saiga 7.62 andhave a very nice rifle and the satisfaction of doing it yourself. The only downside is you have to get a little more involved if you want a 24mm Muzzle brake.

 

[Ryanxia]

I've owned other Saigas and had them converted, I agree they are nice rifles. I had never seen one with Legion and Arsenal on it so I was curious to do some research.

The research was after the fact, I picked one up the other day, someone had it duracoated which I don't mind because it came out nice, and they put a crappy stock on it that I've ordered an Arsenal stock to put back on it, other than that its hardly ever been fired. And for 550 I couldn't pass it up! haha.