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This is something we have been kicking around for years. Finally the boys at ITT Enidine asked us to revisit it for them.
Typically, when you want an AR-15 style stock on a Saiga 12, you convert it to AK configuration and install one of the several stock adapters that are available. But why bother going through a conversion when you can just bolt an adapter onto the receiver? That's what project Bohna was meant to address:
One reason we shelved this for several years was because the lower tang of the receiver trunnion interfered with where the pistol grip had to be fastened; there would have been very little material to support the grip. We finally arrived at a the nifty solution of attaching the grip to a steel insert that was secured inside the aluminum adapter.
The above is a plastic model of the adapter. Next step is to make a few metal prototypes we can test fire. Note the buttstock permanently pinned to a hydraulic recoil buffer. This is to allow us to legally build and test the shotgun in California, where a semi-automatic shotgun equipped with both a pistol grip and a collapsing stock is prohibited.
Because the adapter is a complicated casting, and also because of the extra steel piece that will need to be machined, this adapter set-up will have to cost a bit more than the LEO adapters for Remington and Mossberg.
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