Saiga sportster into 2017 RAW

[beanz2]

What is the minimum I can do to Saiga sportster to make it a registerable AW in 2017?

I have a couple of Saiga sportsters I want to eventually convert, but I am short on time due to my job. I want them to be registerable in 2017, but I don't want to run into the possibility of illegal manufacturing of an AW.

I have Bullet Button (cage) type magazine locks that I can install before doing anything to them, but I am looking for an easy and quick method to make them "featured."

One hoakey method I can think of is screwing a pistol grip to the stock. Other ideas?

[SkyHawk]

Zip ties or duck tape for securing the pistol grip - don't drill if you don't have to And according to the flow chart, a forward vertical grip would do I think, even without a pistol grip.

Removable mag + just one evil feature = AW. So one evil feature with BB locked mag = 2016 AW style rifle to be reg'd in 2017.

[AreWeFree]

Zip tie on a flash hider, bam, AW.

[SkyHawk]

Just thread on a cheap flash hider, bam, AW.

Yeah not easy on the Saiga sporter - some are not threaded at all and the ones that are, are permanently shrouded over.

[AreWeFree]

You're quicker than my edit!

[SDR]

Easiest way would be to change out the stock and put a collapsible stock on the rifle. You can install any stock in less than 5 minutes with only a screwdriver. Will it be easy to shoot with no grip? No really.


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[SkyHawk]

I wonder if you thread a telescoping antenna from an old radio into the buttplate, does that make it a telescoping stock?

[riceman]

Nobody has asked this question, and it is killing me.
Why do you want to take a featureless rifle and make it an AW?
Just curious, they are you guns to do with as you please.

[beanz2]

Nobody has asked this question, and it is killing me.
Why do you want to take a featureless rifle and make it an AW?
Just curious, they are you guns to do with as you please.

I want to eventually put naughty features on it. IMO, one can get much better hunting type of rifles than these Saigas.

RAW stored in my out of state residence = a free state rifle that is out of CA jurisdiction and reach that may re-enter the state at will.

[javithewrench]

Saiga sportster into 2017 RAW

Just register it, no one will know
I guess till you made a thread about it, now everyone knows

[beanz2]

Just register it, no one will know
I guess till you made a thread about it, now everyone knows

Yup, the "how many dead hookers can you keep in your trunk if your taillights are not out" question, LOL

[elSquid]

I've been thinking of doing the same.

The easiest thing to do is maglock it, then add a vfg to the forend. Pretty much anything can be a vfg, though I have a bunch of A2 pgs lying around that aren't being used for anything...

-- Michael

[elSquid]

I've been thinking of doing the same.

The easiest thing to do is maglock it, then add a vfg to the forend. Pretty much anything can be a vfg, though I have a bunch of A2 pgs lying around that aren't being used for anything...

Pull the front swing swivel, get a short section of one inch doweling, drive a screw through the swivel hole into the doweling...worlds cheapest new VFG?

http://www.homedepot.com/p/1-in-x-48-in-Wood-Round-Dowel-HDDH148/203360196

-- Michael

[beanz2]

Pull the front swing swivel, get a short section of one inch doweling, drive a screw through the swivel hole into the doweling...worlds cheapest new VFG?

http://www.homedepot.com/p/1-in-x-48-in-Wood-Round-Dowel-HDDH148/203360196

-- Michael

I like that idea, Michael!

I'll also experiment with screwing an unused grip to the stock. But since I am such an AK purist, I'll use a comblock bakelite grip

[elSquid]

I like that idea, Michael!

I'll also experiment with screwing an unused grip to the stock. But since I am such an AK purist, I'll use a comblock bakelite grip

-- Michael