December 26th, 2011 
Mike After months of my Saiga sitting in the closet I finally got around to starting the conversion.
Removed the stock Saiga Stock
Saiga 7.62 x39 flat trunion
Removed the Mag Release for Trimming to Accept AK Mags
Saiga Trigger Gard Removal - Air Grinder
Starting to look like a real AK
September 29th, 2011 Mike Here’s what you’ll need if you want to move your Saiga Sporter trigger back to where Mikhail Kalashnikov originally intended it to be. This is a Converted Tapco G2 Fire Control Group from Dinzag Arms.
Saiga Tapco G2 Converted Fire Control Group
September 29th, 2011 Mike You will have to make some modifications to your Saiga Sporter if you want to use regular AK High Capacity Magazines. Here’s what you’ll need…
Saiga flat trunnion bullet guide & installation Kit
Make sure to check whether your Saiga has a flat or round trunnion before placing your order. You will probably have to do a little trimming on your magazine catch release as well. I’ll shoot some photos of it when I get around to installing this.
I bought mine from Dinzag Arms
May 7th, 2011 Mike 
saiga-ak-sporter
If you want your Saiga Sporter to look like an AK-47 you are going to need to do a little parts shopping. AK 47 furniture can be purchased anywhere from the shotgun news for old parts kits to Kvar for new synthetic stocks and fore-grips.
The US Government would appreciate it if you purchase AK parts built in the U.S. In fact they can even toss you in Jail if you don’t use a certain number of U.S. made parts when converting a Saiga Sporter to an AK look- a-like. Keep yourself from being thrown in jail by using the following link to see how many US made AK parts you need to be compliant.
May 7th, 2011 Mike 
Saiga 7.62 x 39
The Saiga Sporter is made in the same Russian factories as the original AK-47 rifles.
May 7th, 2011 Mike 
ak-103-conversion-parts
Here’s a photo of some of the parts I purchased on line to convert my Saiga 7.62 x 39 Sporter into an AK-103 clone.
After scouring the internet for a week I found the best prices for these items on the saiga-12.com forums from a user named MARKW1.
In the photo we have the following Bulgarian parts:
April 26th, 2011 Mike 
THE GUN by C.J. Chivers
While I applaud C.J. Chivers for his thorough research I have to disagree with many of his personal opinions. Chivers downplays Mikhail Kalashnikov’s contribution to the design of the AK-47 but throughout the novel seems to be looking for an apology from Kalashnikov for creating a weapon of mass destruction. You can’t have it both ways, either give credit to Kalashnikov for the creation of the weapon or lay off him for being the single human responsible for the carnage that users of the AK-47 have wrought upon the planet.
My personal opinion is that the AK-47 was a creation of the Soviet State. A competition was held by Stalin to create a new military rifle. Had they not used Kalashnikov’s design, something similar would have been created by some other Soviet designer which probably would have been distributed just as widely as the AK.
The AK-47 borrowed features from the German Strurmgewehr 44 and the M1 Garand as well as a number of other existing and prototype weapons.
I truly believe Mikhail Kalashnikov when he says he designed the weapon to protect the Motherland which I think was a noble effort in a time of war. At the time of the initial design stages of the AK the Soviets were still American Allies. It was not Kalashnikov’s fault that the Soviet System mass produced, stockpiled and distributed the weapon to every communist leaning country in the world.
Unfortunately people were killing people long before guns were invented and will more than likely be killing one another till the end of time. Before guns people used rocks, sticks, knives, arrows, axes, fire and water. Getting rid of guns will not keep people from killing one another. The amount of killing in the world has not increased statistically since the invention of the assault rifle although the number of bullets an individual can shoot quickly from a single rifle certainly has. As an example of mans brutality long before the advent of assault rifles I give you the Crusades, where between the years 1095 & 1291 AD over 3 million warriors managed to kill one another with swords, knives and arrows at a time when the world population was only 360 million.
February 23rd, 2011 Mike If you believe in the intelligence of the masses I found more positive reviews on line for the Bulgarian AK waffle magazines than any other which is why I use them in my AK. I went with the mags made by Arsenel
I first went to K-var looking for them but all they had were colors other than black in stock. I ended up purchasing mine from AK47RIFLE.COM Shipping was quick and the price was the lowest I could find.
January 11th, 2011 Mike (Updated at 3:45 p.m. Eastern 1/10/2011 to add comment from Lautenberg’s and McCarthy’s offices.)
By Michael Isikoff
NBC News National Investigative Correspondent
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., with the backing of gun control groups, are drafting a bill that would ban the sale of high-capacity magazines such as the one that was used allegedly Saturday by Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of murdering federal Judge John Roll and trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., according to two gun control activists working with McCarthy’s staff.
Gun control proponents are hoping to move rapidly on the measure in the wake of reports that Loughner’s access to high-capacity, 33-round magazines substantially increased the lethality of his attack, the activists said. An Arizona law enforcement official confirmed to NBC News on Monday that Loughner had actually gotten off at least 31 shots during the Saturday shooting, not the 20 that were first reported. He was emptying his first high-capacity magazine and was trying to reload with another high-capacity magazine (with another 30 rounds) when he was wrestled to the ground, the official said.
“In the wake of these kind of incidents, the trick is to move quickly,” said Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, one of the gun control groups working with McCarthy’s office.
McCarthy, one of the House’s strongest gun control proponents, whose husband was killed in a mass shooting on the Long Island Railroad in 1993, confirmed Sunday that she was drafting a new bill in the aftermath of Tuscon .an aide said her office was consulting with other members, including House Speaker John Boehner’s office, and that she hoped to have draft language as early as this week. A Lautenberg aide said Lautenberg was working on a similar version in the Senate.
“The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly. These high-capacity clips simply should not be on the market,” Lautenberg said. “Before 2004, these ammunition clips were banned, and they must be banned again. When the Senate returns to Washington, I will introduce legislation to prohibit this type of high-capacity clip.”
Lautenberg was referring to an issue that has been highlighted in recent days by senior federal law enforcement officials: the manufacture of the kind of high-capacity magazines the suspect had with him at the Tucson shopping mall was barred under a federal assault weapons ban that was passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
note from the owner of this blog:
When I saw this on CNN this afternoon I quickly purchased ten 30 round AK Magazines just in-case prices go through the roof again. Which ones did I purchase? Bulgarian 7.62×39 30 rd. polymer waffle pattern from k-var.com
December 2nd, 2010 Mike Article about how to choose which AK-47 to buy and where to find the best price.
