Saiga Picture Thread

Humpty Dumpty · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:56 am

Do you know how Saige got its name?

waltham41 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:34 pm **Posts:** 10

I beleive a Saiga is a deer or antelope type animal in Russia.

Humpty Dumpty · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:26 am

Yes, right

Saiga is a species of anthelope native to Eurasia. But who would name a shotgun after an animal that inhabits wide open spaces and, normally, requires a 300-yard rifle to hunt? The official version is that the name for shotguns came from the name of Saiga the rifle (AK with disabled full-auto mode, smaller magazines and a sporter stock.), and the rifle actually came out first. But...

Back in the bad old days of the "Evil Empire" saiga was harvested - or, better said, slaughtered - for meat. Two or three trucks would chase a flock of saigas at night (the steppes and semideserts that are home for saiga are so level that, ewhen the land is hard and slowless, you can drive at highway speed even in a passenger car of-road). Each truck had in the back a powerfull light beam and two shots. The drivers and beam operators got the animals to run close to each other, and then the shots started shooting into the mass. It was pretty disgousting, but perfectly legal - if you were employed by the authorised agency, that is. The shots used semiauto shotguns with mag extansions - and they believed the perfect weapon for this job would be a 12-gauge AK, mostly for speed of reloading with box magazines. So one of the authorised agencies asked IzhMach if they could make such a shotgun. The factory said no (apparently, at the time they thought the numbers were too small to bother with tooling). But that was where the idea of a smoothbore AK conversion came from, years later, when the factory had to sell something in the civilian market (no cold war, no defence orders). BTW, the "harvest" of Saiga was already abandoned by then, too - and stays abandoned, to my knowledge.

waltham41 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:34 pm **Posts:** 10

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing that with us.

SN13 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:15 pm **Posts:** 60

Thanks for sharing, now post some PIX!!!!

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SN13 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:15 pm **Posts:** 60

waltham41 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:34 pm **Posts:** 10

SN13 where did you get that muzzle brake at?

SN13 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:15 pm **Posts:** 60

Sexy? No? :-D

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waltham41 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:34 pm **Posts:** 10

If he made some of those and posted them at the saiga-12.com forum, I am pretty sure he could sell them..... That is cool as hell. Does it work ok with bird shot? I have a Tromix shark brake on mine, and I would take it off in a heartbeat to put one of those on there.

SN13 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:15 pm **Posts:** 60

It has more surface area than either the tromix or even JT's comp brake (you can see both on Carolina shooter's Supply)... The front is 2.25" and the OD of the brake is 1.5".. it tapers down in the rear to 1.25" across. The thing is light too. I mean, breaks on shotguns don't work as well as rifles, but it's light enough that it doesn't negatively affect my maneuverability... the one thing the tromix/JT comp brakes have going for them is their weight. They are heavy... like 9oz. This thing doesn't weigh much. Probably less than 3oz.

SN13 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:15 pm **Posts:** 60

Here's my Saiga Collection... and their friend, the AR.

.30-06, .308, 7.62x39, 5.45x39, .223AR, 12ga, 20ga

waltham41 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:34 pm **Posts:** 10

Sweet!!!!!! I like the mid barrel brake on that 12 gauge too.

chupa · **Joined:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:44 am **Posts:** 9

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Bigborektm · **Joined:** Tue May 05, 2009 9:25 pm **Posts:** 3

I want one of the Saiga's so bad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FziECY1m ... r_embedded

All it needs is a shorter barrel and a rail on top for a trijicon reflex sight.

cc1970 · **Joined:** Fri May 06, 2011 1:15 pm **Posts:** 5

Hello everybody. New here. Love what you guys have done with guns from my country. Need to get me Saiga 12 ASAP. LOL :lol:

waltham41 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:34 pm **Posts:** 10

We do love the saiga shotguns

albowen · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:10 am **Posts:** 7

Nice to see several of my associates from the Saiga Forum here dcisplaying the results of 60 years of Russian firepower development !!
Here is my contribution to the roster.

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ferraritech27 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:06 pm **Posts:** 5

New member ...my new s12 got me BACK into guns again, love this thing!

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