Hi-Cap mags for Saiga!!

[jadlee]

I e-mailed EAA and asked them about hi-cap mags for Saiga rifles and shotguns after the ban sunsets for regular people to buy. They replied that they will have hi-cap mags for rifles available. That's all they said. I don't know if that means just for rifles or shotguns too.

[Schuetzenman]

I don't know if that means just for rifles or shotguns too.

Be patient . . . we'll all find out eventually. ;)

[Lollygagger]

Originally posted by jadlee
I e-mailed EAA and asked them about hi-cap mags for Saiga rifles and shotguns after the ban sunsets for regular people to buy. They replied that they will have hi-cap mags for rifles available. That's all they said. I don't know if that means just for rifles or shotguns too.

Actually, with the 7.62x39mm & .223 Saiga versions...

you already do! They have a "limiter" cast on top of the floor plate & oversize sides of the follower -if trimmed, they would hold added rounds.

Sssshhhh!

Lollygagger;)

[BeninOcala]

Thats the only thing holding me back from buying a Saiga in .308...i want to KNOW there will be high caps around..

[MAKOwner]

Even if EAA doesn't offer for sale the 8 rnd Saiga 12 gauge mags or 20 rnd .308 mags we should legally be able to combine two of the lowcaps to get the desired capacity anyway shouldn't we? I need to read up on the process, maybe it's easy enough alot of people could do it themselves...

Or at least hopefully a couple vendors like Hi-cap on the board will be offering custom made full capacity mags.... His 45 (or whatever) round 5.45 mags and such were supposed to be pretty good...

[BattleRifleG3]

Note that Saiga 308 factory mags already cost $25 just for low cap ones. Another board member and I are working on conversions to use G3 mags. His is a custom job, mine is a WECSOG kit.

Another option would be if a US manufacturer made cheap hi-caps, like USA. Something like the SKS hi-caps. But I'm not holding my breath.

[BeninOcala]

BattleRifleG3, Told my brother about the conversion you guys going, Swear he almost blew his load hearing about it, He asked where he could send the money, told him he'd have to wait til things got worked out....

[LeadHead]

Just got off the phone w/ a firearms pattend lawer...


If my conversion is not good evough for a pattend, I will start doing conversions ASAP.


BeninOcala, if the money is stuck together like last mounths Playboy, I'll send it back for an exchange.:p

[BeninOcala]

:D

[Stottman]

Actually, the Russians already make hicaps for the Saiga. They only work in the Saiga, and dont interchange with standard AKM mags.

However, I can see the ATF stopping importation of the Saiga if the factory hicaps are imported by EAA. One of the reasons the Saiga is importable is because it does not accept standard hicaps.

I have also heard the ATF told EAA that if they imported hicaps for the shotguns, they would rule the shotguns as NFA DDs.

[MAKOwner]

How can a mag fed shotgun be ruled a DD if it doesn't accept drums? I thought that was the point at which they threw down the DD trump card?

[Lollygagger]

Originally posted by MAKOwner
How can a mag fed shotgun be ruled a DD if it doesn't accept drums? I thought that was the point at which they threw down the DD trump card?

I must be pretty elective about it...

Didn't they do this to the magazine fed Spas?

Lollygagger:eek:

[akpatriot]

Any American company but USA Mags. :D

[AKMac]

As long as I can get one of these at a resonable price I'll be happy.

http://www.izhmash.ru/pix/saiga12c_exp01.jpg

I would settle for this too!

http://club.guns.ru/eng/sig12/sig121.JPG

[Stottman]

Actually, there are no set of rules to when a shotgun becomes a DD. The ATF just has to say it is. Thats all.

[PACKIN' PLASTIC]

Yep, ATF points their dirty finger and another good gun dies.

They haven't tried it on a powerful gun maker though.


PP

[1 Patriot-of-many]

At the very least if "large cap" mags become available, US parts will then be required in the imported guns, as they would then be "unsporting".

[Stottman]

If factory hi caps become availible, the gun could be ruled non-sporting and could not be imported.

Remember, imports are not allowed to accept hicaps.