saiga 12

[Guest m14man]

thinking of purchasing one of these, would like to know the plus and the negatives about it. whats the best mags for it, best drum mags, is it ammo finicky?

[Smith]

Excellent guns. Factory mags are all that's available in the normal configuration. You can get drums but stay away from Alliance Armament. Plus's are that it is an AK (it will run no matter what conditions are), isn't ammo finicky (other than Walmart "Universal"), and you can't break it. Negatives? don't know any yet.

[JeffL]

Go to Youtube and look at a few videos. What's not to like? I want one of the Tromix conversions to make sure it's all evil and stuff.

[10Kilr]

Magazines are getting expensive.

[Jonsaiga]

thinking of purchasing one of these, would like to know the plus and the negatives about it. whats the best mags for it, best drum mags, is it ammo finicky?

They are good guns. Personally I'm not a fan of drum mags as they are too bulky and very heavy. I prefer the eight & ten rounds mags for them over the higher capacity ones. My buddy has several of the Pro-mag twelve rounders and they are just ungodly long and cumbersome. Only feed issues I've seen have been with the after market Pro-mags which seemed like it needed a stronger magazine spring. The AGP mags have worked very well. I've heard good things about Surfire mag reliability too but have yet to try any personally. Downside is they are too fun to shoot and ammo is expensive.