.223 Conversion.../ Range Report

Got this just about the way I want for now. later maybe a wooden buttstock and P/G for that G1 look....

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Well I think I got a couple of decent loads worked up for my Saiga. I was very pleased with the face that there was not a brand (and I tried about 5 of them) that this rifle wouldn't feed, fire or eject. This rifle just eats them up. Even with the Bear and Wolf brands, they would stay in the 10 ring of SR-1 target... I had a Bushnell red dot sight for the milsurp stuff and a Burris Fullfield II 4.5-14x 42mm Scope for the handloads. I got acceptable groups with 55gr and 60gr bullets. The load recipies were:

LC brass
Win small rifle primers
21.6 gr IMR 3031 (for 60gr FBHP)
22.0 gr IMR-3031 (for 55gr BTSP)
Mag fit/ full length sized.

Yep, It's a keeper.........

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I like the look, similar to one of my Saiga .223 conversions but i do have questions. the front handguard is that a creation of your own and is that a AK-74 sight setup and was it a bitch to get the factory one off? closer pics of hand guard and front sight if possible.

Thank you...The hand guard is a Tapco Intrafusion type. I cut the top of the front on an angle and then along the bottom of the vent holes. I wanted to expose the gas tube a little, Purely aesthetics. I like the hand guard because it allows me to use a bipod.
The front sight is stock. I put a DPH phantom flashider from Carolina Shooters Supply on it. It is the type that you install a threaded clip on the back of the front sight and screw the flashider on.
I left my camera in my office. Sorry I won't be able to take pics until Monday.

tasty

Cool looking mask you have there, and the rifle is not bad either! I assume it is from Africa? I have few in my collection as well.

Good job! That sure is a sexy rifle.

Cool looking mask you have there, and the rifle is not bad either! I assume it is from Africa? I have few in my collection as well.

That's Kahannamuko, Hawaiian surf god. He keeps the surf up here in Fl. The surf was real flat for the first half of the summer here. I picked him up in the Keys. As soon as the virgin was sacrificed, we got hurricane Bill. Duuuuuude,,,,,
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I picked him up at a roadside souvenir place in the Keys...He might be fron S.A., I don't know......