Milled receivers offer zero practical advantage over a stamped receiver. They do offer more weight and more price.
Just hold out & find the best deal. I just got one for $250 its russain too.
Yours is a stamped receiver saiga. It doesn't fit the OPs requirements. That said see the above.
On phone and at work so bear wqit me. The last one is a sagia conversion which doesn't even allow for a proper front handguard and I'm almost 100 percent sure is stamped so idnt see how it fits. I would look for a milled norinco since price doesn't seem to matter and these will probably continue to appreciate. Also its cooler to have foregin made ak recivers (at least I think it makes a cooler collection I have a sauga and a maadi so far). Gl wit ur purchase. I would go with a stamped ak for half the price personally.
As to the hanguards. If you are after a fashion accessory and really must have the look of the traditional AK handguards (and I take it that is what you mean by proper) then you can put them on. You replace the gas tube and put a handguard retainer on their and it still costs much less than $800. From a functional stand point I actually prefer the saiga handguard. There are various other handguards than can be run on the saiga depending on ones needs and desires.
Yes Saigas are stamped receivers. They are also foreign receivers since someone reading your post may have misunderstood your comments on that point.
Okay can someone answer these questions:
1. What the hell is the big deal w. a Saiga converted or w.e and what is a Saiga!!
2. Not considering th price, is the Milled Bulgy AK w. chrome lined barrel going to be good?
3. Is the converted red jacket going to be good?
Well since you asked so nicely and apparently haven't heard of google.
A saiga is a russian rifle made at Izmash, where russian military AKs are made. Because of some nonsensical gun regulations they cannot be imported in their traditional format so they are imported in "sporter configuration" They used to run about $250 and now seem to be going for $320. For that price you get a completely newly manufactured rifle with a chrome lined bore on a russian receiver (as a opposed to a gun made of demilled or rejected parts built on a US receiver).
The sporter configuration looks like this:
Aside from the fact that it doesn't look like an AK it has some functional disadvantages compared to the PG configuration. The funky trigger linkage they use to move the trigger back gives a horrible trigger pull. The balance and ergos are way off with that stock and your grip being moved back. The gun cannot run normal AK mags.
The pistol grip conversion puts the rifle back in its intended configuration and remedies all these problems. One replaces the fire control group and in doing so moves it forward to where it should be and installs a pistol grip. One also installs a pistol a bullet guide and grinds down the mag latch and voila AK mags work. Use google to find more detailed explanations with pics and or video
This is the most economical route to a nice AK IMHO.
The red jacket is a saiga that they have converted and made pretty. Its a nice gun but expensive because you are paying someone to do all the work on it.
As an aside I wouldn't right off a WASR. If everything on it is straight it is probably going to offer as much performance as the much more expensive guns considering how most people use their AKs.
Which is a good segway into mentioning that its hard to answer your next two questions without criteria of what is "good".
How are you going to use the rifle? What do expect it to do? etc.
Generally speaking I would say they are good guns but overpriced. $800 for an AK is silly to me.
