Saiga .308

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Had one of these. Pretty neat, but had the drawbacks of AKs - heavy, especially when you scope it with a side mount, and poor trigger. But neat useful gun. Was reasonably accurate. I had the 22" one; my buddy had the 16" one - I think he still does.
 

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some people use them as medium range (out to 600 yards) inexpensive sniper rifles. Rifle Dynamics tunes them up for about $450 for such duty.

There is a good write up here about them and other inexpensive rifles for sniper duty. In a nutshell the article, written by an instructor from a sniping school, explains that a decent rifle with a good scope is all you need and some guys do just fine without those multi-thousand dollar rifles and short of some really good optics you can barely see a man size target out to 600 yards anyway.

I had a discussion with a friend about this as he was thinking of getting one; well, a PSL actually, but close enough for discussion sake. I mentioned that for the same price as that PSL with a tune up he could get a remington 700, which is obviously far more accurate. However, the saiga or psl would be far more rugged and utilize cheaper ammo.
 

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