dlow
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So, I've been wanting to buy a shotgun for about year or so now. My criteria was that I wanted something that's good for home defense, I could shoot skeet with, wasn't more than $1k and was semi auto. I go to the gun show this past weekend here in Atlanta and I begin looking around. I look at a few remingtons and some benelli's but they were either too expensive or cheaply made. Also, I've shot benelli's a couple of times and wasn't too happy with the performance as they have issues ejecting lighter load ammo such as the crappy target loads from walmart. Plus, it's really hard to clear a jam with those things. Then I'm tooling around at one table with assault rifles looking for an mp5 and come across this thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga-12 I ask the dealer about it and he says without blinking "it's basically an AK shotgun." :0 I did a double take and said "a what now?" He explained that the gun is a saiga-12, which is a shotgun made by the same factory that makes the AK in Russia and that it's based on the AK design, only scaled up to be a shotgun. I pick it up and mess around a bit and sure enough, it's just like an AK, stamped metal, crappy paint and all. I was in love. Anyways... to make a long story short. I've got my home defense gun now. :laugh:
Here's a youtube video if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gESLOmz-4sc
Due to silly gun laws here in the us (922r), these are imported in a "sporting configuration." This means no pistol grip and a rather cheap stock, but once I'm done with it, this thing is going to be a beast. I'll try to post pics of it as I make progress. I can't wait to try it out this weekend at the range.
Here's a youtube video if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gESLOmz-4sc
Due to silly gun laws here in the us (922r), these are imported in a "sporting configuration." This means no pistol grip and a rather cheap stock, but once I'm done with it, this thing is going to be a beast. I'll try to post pics of it as I make progress. I can't wait to try it out this weekend at the range.