kBob
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So the Silly Saiga questions of the day are from me. OK, this batch of today’s Silly Saiga Questions. as it would be odd for there to be only one such post.
Many moons ago when I first saw a Saiga in .308 I was tickled with the possibilities, but I had higher priorities for my cash.
One of the things that struck me about the rifle handled at that long ago gun show is that all but the most frightened of sticks anti gun sheeple would be unlikely to take one look at the rifles and scream “Evil Assault Rifle!” The one I looked at had wood furniture and rubber butt pad and the short magazine. I was vaguely reminded of the German G43, a rifle I always thought had a high “coolness appearance factor.”
Besides the fact that I own and daily carry the Scooge Mc Duck Memorial Wallet there just was not 47 bejillion positive reviews of the gun available at the time and no websites about keeping them working or turning them into just as nasty a EAR as any other.
I am thinking about a truck gun. I mean you never know when you might need to shoot a truck. Those F-150s get to swilling three dollar a gallon 87 octane and you never know what they may do. Sorry couldn’t resist that. But seriously I want something with more “Rapidy Umph” than the old shot out K98 or the rattle ruckus Winchester 94 that I can toss in the truck or car that won’t frighten Sheeple if they happen to catch a glance of it while I am looking for battery cables to help the little coed in the grocery store parking lot.
As I want to not have a high capacity magazine I wanted to know something about the magazines on the .308. Several folks have mentioned that M-14 mags can be modified to work in a 922 compliant rifle. This begs two questions. First, would a rifle have to be 922 compliant to be modified use ten round magazines offered for the M-1A during the mag ban or by Springfield or even made by myself from old M-14 mags? Would simply owning regular 20 round magazines for M-14/M-1As then be a legal problem if a Saiga .308 was modified to accept ten round versions?
I expect that to be about like a napalm strike in forest covered mountains after a seven year drought, but someone may have an actual, factual answer.
Next can one use the M-14 stripper clip guide that came with bandoliers of stripper clipped ammo for the M-14 back in the bad old days before we were blessed with the sometimes functioning, sometimes effective AR-15 series of black rifles (Sorry a tinge of bias against the Stoner Wunder Waffen seems to have slipped through) to load “issue” Saiga magazines?
Finally can one of the LER scope mounts used with AK type rifles be used with the unmodified Saiga .308?
Thanks for your patience and thanks in advance for your thoughtful responses.
-Bob Hollingsworth
Many moons ago when I first saw a Saiga in .308 I was tickled with the possibilities, but I had higher priorities for my cash.
One of the things that struck me about the rifle handled at that long ago gun show is that all but the most frightened of sticks anti gun sheeple would be unlikely to take one look at the rifles and scream “Evil Assault Rifle!” The one I looked at had wood furniture and rubber butt pad and the short magazine. I was vaguely reminded of the German G43, a rifle I always thought had a high “coolness appearance factor.”
Besides the fact that I own and daily carry the Scooge Mc Duck Memorial Wallet there just was not 47 bejillion positive reviews of the gun available at the time and no websites about keeping them working or turning them into just as nasty a EAR as any other.
I am thinking about a truck gun. I mean you never know when you might need to shoot a truck. Those F-150s get to swilling three dollar a gallon 87 octane and you never know what they may do. Sorry couldn’t resist that. But seriously I want something with more “Rapidy Umph” than the old shot out K98 or the rattle ruckus Winchester 94 that I can toss in the truck or car that won’t frighten Sheeple if they happen to catch a glance of it while I am looking for battery cables to help the little coed in the grocery store parking lot.
As I want to not have a high capacity magazine I wanted to know something about the magazines on the .308. Several folks have mentioned that M-14 mags can be modified to work in a 922 compliant rifle. This begs two questions. First, would a rifle have to be 922 compliant to be modified use ten round magazines offered for the M-1A during the mag ban or by Springfield or even made by myself from old M-14 mags? Would simply owning regular 20 round magazines for M-14/M-1As then be a legal problem if a Saiga .308 was modified to accept ten round versions?
I expect that to be about like a napalm strike in forest covered mountains after a seven year drought, but someone may have an actual, factual answer.
Next can one use the M-14 stripper clip guide that came with bandoliers of stripper clipped ammo for the M-14 back in the bad old days before we were blessed with the sometimes functioning, sometimes effective AR-15 series of black rifles (Sorry a tinge of bias against the Stoner Wunder Waffen seems to have slipped through) to load “issue” Saiga magazines?
Finally can one of the LER scope mounts used with AK type rifles be used with the unmodified Saiga .308?
Thanks for your patience and thanks in advance for your thoughtful responses.
-Bob Hollingsworth