wrapped up my Saiga conversion

[Coronach]

The postion where the mag. follower BHO stops the bolt is so far forward, that your way up on the tip of the safty where the width is only ~1/4".

It might work well if you tooled up a uniquely shapes safety....but that's beyond me.

Ok, so if I'm understanding you correctly, the problem is that the safety is too thin (well, not wide enough) at that point to allow for an adequately sized notch and still maintain enough material not to fail through repeated use. Is that the only problem, do you think? Because if it is, I agree with you that the answer would be a "wider" safety that would allow a good-sized notch (along with appropriate places for the user to place his trigger finger to engage/disengage the safety, since we're already doing a custom job, may as well do it right).

However, if the thing will still not work due to the problem I mentioned (bolt being held too far forward to properly catch and/or strip a round), it's all for naught.

Mike

 

[Deer Hunter]

SSN,

I did the same with mine for my trigger guard. However, if I remember I dremeld off a section of the end that had one hole for a screw. There were two on that side, so I was still left with one that I could use. However, getting through the mag latch was a pain.

 

[nalioth]

I wasn't crazy about the Saiga factory BHO, as it did not pass my own personal BHO test. With the BHO engaged as securely as possible, if I held the rifle vertically and let it drop ~4" onto the butt of the stock, the BHO would disengage, letting the bolt snap shut.

Yeah, that's a problem every M16/AR15 has, too.


The notched safety is not a new idea. You can get them from various vendors (or do it yourself).

 

[strat81]

http://hunting.about.com/od/guns/ss/ak_safety_notch.htm
Directions for an AK safety notch. I did it to my WASR, works fine.

 

[SSN Vet]

Is that the only problem, do you think?

As far as I see it...that's it. As noted, there's a guy on the Saiga-12 board that did it this way and says it works fine.....but after seeing his photo (just tried to find it but couldn't) I didn't want to go that way.

Here's another good thread on the topic....

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=4&f=55&t=84152

getting through the mag latch was a pain.

to mucnh of a pain for me....it looked like the Mag catch assembly was going to need to be removed.....

 

[Deer Hunter]

I need to go back and take a look at my Saiga. I was sure I got around the mag latch issue pretty easily. Gotta go remember how, though.