Before and After: With pictures.

[mattw]

I'm interested to see everyone's before and after gun photos. Maybe you bought a weapon and added a few things or swapped a few things around, lets see it.


I'll go first

Before:



After:

 

[chris in va]

Before (stock photo)



After

 

[possum]

very nice chris i like it.
before


after

 

[Walkalong]

RRA 9MM AR

Before

After

 

[mattw]

Possum,

Did you originally have a GG&G MAD BUIS? What made you change to the MaTech?

Chris,

Nice Saiga conversion. Did you do it yourself?

Walkalong,

What optic is that? One of the AimPoint commercial models?

 

[ThrottleJockey]

ChrisinVA, Just curious, I get the whole shorter barrel, I could even accept the magazine changeover. What I cannot for the life of me understand, is the stock and grip. Nor can I believe it. I call BS. Unless you changed out the entire receiver, at which point you may as well have just not bought the saiga in the first place(why would you anyways).

 

[mattw]

ThrottleJockey,

What Chris has is a Saiga Conversion. Google it. Its real.

 

[WardenWolf]

Before:



Interim (Saiga skeleton stock and scope):



After:



Converted to a standard AK trigger group, and installed a Romanian PSL stock on it. Replaced the forward swivel with a cut off Uncle Mike's machine screw swivel and mounted a Harris bipod.

 

[SoCalShooter]

From TACTICAL to practical nice pics.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

OK, I just watched a video of the conversion. I take back what I said about BS. What I still don't get is WHY? With the cost, and the time involved, why not just get a WASR or some other model? It just doesn't make sense to me.

 

[WardenWolf]

Why? Because the Saiga started at $350, and the trigger parts were $75 and the stock cost me $25 shipped and stained. WASR's were $450. Why? Because WASR's are unpredictable, ranging from great to pure crap. Why? Because it's a real Russian AK, made at the fully modernized Izhmash factory. Why? Ever seen another AK shoot 2 MOA? Then there's the widespread availability of non-corrosive .223 ammo, good mags available, and more. In the end, I paid the same price as a WASR, but put in a few hours of work and got something far better. Honestly, that's what it boils down to: spend a little bit of money and a few hours converting a Saiga, and it suddenly becomes the best AK you could have ever bought.

 

[Gord]

+1 Mike. The Saiga is far and away better than a WASR.

It's also not nearly as complicated or time-consuming to do the conversion as you might think. You're just grinding/drilling a couple of rivets out and screwing in a bullet guide, basically. Everything else drops right in.

Up until November, you could also get 'em preconverted for $500-550 if you didn't want to bother doing it yourself.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

I paid $389 for each of my 2 Romanian wasr10s less than a year ago.NIB. They are both great! Without any conversions. I did however make some mods for personilization, to make them "mine". The "why" was initially for chris in va, but whatever. To each his own. Here is a link to an earlier thread with some pics of one of them before and after.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=426233

 

[possum]

I paid $389 for each of my 2 Romanian wasr10s less than a year ago.NIB

that was less than a year ago, prices aren't the same anymore.

 

[possum]

Did you originally have a GG&G MAD BUIS? What made you change to the MaTech?

i did, i had both before i started and just first used the mad buis, and then i changed out. no real reason really, i think they are neat the ability to change range the way they do, but realistically since this is a personal ar and not a work gun i highly doubt that it would ever be used past 25yds.

also as being a person that likes to be different, everyone had the mad buis and arms sights, and at the time i put that on there, i didn't knwo anyone with ine of the ma techs.