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Posted: 9/28/2012 2:47:03 PM EDT
| my saiga didn't come with a bullet guide when i bought it, but it came with a steel 30-round magazine. i've put 120 flawless rounds through it (plus however many the previous fired) with that stell mag. what's the deal? i do have a bullet guide and have already drilled and tapped a hole for it, but would have to file some material off the front of the steel mag for it to fit. should i file the mag even though it works great without the guide, or wait until i come across a mag that won't feed? |
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http://i.imgur.com/xSbFs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1CQYZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CqxxZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kQuqZ.jpg when i asked carolina shooters supply about filing down the guide they said to file down the mag. i included pics of the mag in question. if someone can identify what kind it is i'd be grateful. thanks. that thing that screws in is the bullet guide. |
You can remove the bullet guide from the gun or mag.
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http://i.imgur.com/xSbFs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1CQYZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CqxxZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kQuqZ.jpg when i asked carolina shooters supply about filing down the guide they said to file down the mag. i included pics of the mag in question. if someone can identify what kind it is i'd be grateful. thanks. that thing that screws in is the bullet guide. i had no idea.... |
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looks like an E German weiger mag to me... Did someone weld up a bullet guide onto that mag so it would work in a Saiga or is that how it came? I've had a .223 AK before but no mag looked like that. That is a Weiger,it has been altered. I would bet it was done by Surefire a few years back they did this to an unknown amount of the Weigers,for use in Saigas that did not have bullet guides installed. |
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I'm out of my element here, never having messed with a bullet guide insert, but it looks to me like you could file it and contour it to match the mag well so you could use any magazine. Again, it sticks out too far because it is a "flat" bullte guide ona round trunnion. It is too tall and does not sit back like it is supposed to becasue of the round trunion. Get the right part. Right part - Round Trunnion Bullet guide 
Flat vs. Round 
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| If it is rounded at the bottom it is correct. on the 223 it will stick out that far. If you get a Bulgarian 223 mag the mag will have to be filed to fit in a Saiga. It won't just go right in. You will have to remove a little in the front on the sides and a little to go under the guide. |
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looks like a round one to me. If it has a contour on the bottom, then it's the right one. I don't think your issue is with the bullet guide, but the mag. Find a bulgy 223 mag and I bet it works. Yeah, it's the right one. I stand corected. Just didn't look right in the first pic. |
| Saiga ak style rifles come with mags that have installed guides, when you convert a saiga to an AK, you need to install a bullet guide to use the standard ak mags since the standard ak mag won't correctly guide the bullet... That's the case for my 7.62 saiga, don't know what standard .223 ak mags are like and how they guide bullets into the barrel... |
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