Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "Striker 12: Shotgun Turned "Destructive Device"" video.

Continue since I didn't actually mean to post that comment yet. the saiga 12 initially was just an AK with extra room made for ejection port and a larger barrel in a larger magwell and all that stuff. interesting ly they started with the better straighten certain magazine and downgraded to the rock and lock because that's what American market thought an AK should be. The problem was most first guns barely worked. They were so finicky about ammo. eventually they did some tuning with gas Port size and the big change was ditching the AK long stroke piston system and replacing with a tappet system. After they put in the tappet the guns worked. But they still had a limited range of animal that they worked with. the next development was put in a 2 position gas restrictor. that made them work with virtually everything so long as you got a gun that was assembled properly. these were refined by the American competitive market and improved a lot and some of those changes eventually made their way back into the izhmash guns as well as the Molot clones. Oddly their flagship model which is now closest to the Iz433 series prioritize in AK style rear sight block and removable gas tube in the process of incorporating that they removed the gas setting restrictor, which is a real down grade. The vepr 12 is cloned from that variant and originally shipped with the saiga-12 "police" magazines. For that reason the veprs also lack the gas restrictor.
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As a bit of an expert on the saiga 12 itself, that's not really an accurate representation at the development.
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@andyrihn1 Google Saiga 12 vodka special. Those are ones that were made according to your method and then needed to get fixed again by the eventual owner.
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