PSL Build sugestions...

[lead_magnet]

I just got a PSL from a forum member, now I can't decide what route to go, what do you think?

#1

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/6799/dsc02041x.jpg


#2 (bottom rifle)

http://www.gunsnet.net/photopost/data/500/medium/CIMG2362.JPG


#3

http://www.rifledynamics.com/images/galleries/gsr/01.jpg


#4

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h264/AZ-Ranger/Stuff/IMG_1872.jpg


#5

http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz167/INminuteman/P1020357rs.jpg

[spongejosh]

I voted number 5 but it it were me I'd use the wood.

[Dr_Fwd]

#5 wood furniture.

[Big Wall]

I voted 3 2, but now i'm thinkin' #5 with the bipod moved forward.

[nisils14]

1 and 3 with a good bipod setup.

[Great-Kazoo]

Anything other than 1 is sacrilegious, other than adding a suppressor.
IF you feel you need to change the wood color, keep that set and buy another to screw around with.
Then do a color like #3
For chreist sake NO FDE, Or CAMMO shit.......
Buy an AR10 and screw that up.:)

[BPTactical]

Keep the bipod on the receiver. The PSL barrel is too light of a profile and pressure from a biped will affect your POI.
Keep it original.

[lead_magnet]

I've heard of guys getting improvements in accuracy from shortening the barrel, because it is so thin, it helps negate some of the flex.

As far as the "no FDE or Camo" thing, I'll be honest, every gun I have apart from this newly aquired PSL and my glock are either camo or FDE/Brown or some combination thereof. Black just doesn't make any sence to me, and none of mine are for looking at or shooting just for fun so there is a great possibility it will end up like that, sorry, :p

Most people have the front sight put back on after cutting the barrel down, I was thinking of leaving it off, and going with the weld on HK style sights they've been putting on Saigas ( http://store.carolinashooterssupply.com/servlet/-strse-656/TROMIX-AK47-SAIGA-RIFLES/Detail - the front sight is welded onto the gas block, the rear onto the dust cover), as the optic will be the primary sighting device. PLUS, that gives the option to make a suppressor with a very large expansion chamber. You could make the suppressor's expansion chamber double back over the barrel, where it would appear that the barrel is shorter than it is. Sort of like this...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/ReflexSuppressor-WP-Drwg.png

I think it would be possible to get good noise reduction, while maintaining roughly the same overall length.

Thoughts?

And before I get the, why, it's just a PSL .. why put a 400 HP engine in a car built in the 60's? Why get a tattoo? Because I wan't a bad ass PSL, thats why. :p

[lead_magnet]

Do you think I would have to modify the gas system at all with this setup ^ .

[Great-Kazoo]

Do you think I would have to modify the gas system at all with this setup ^ .


Only shooting it will give you that answer. Enlarging the hole or adjusting the piston is something better left until last.
RE: FDE. hey its your rifle, you're the one who asked for feedback.

[Troublco]

5, with wood, keep the bipod in that spot.

[USAFGopherMike]

Same. #5 with wood. I'd like a PSL at some point also. I read a great article in an AK mag awhile back. They cut down the barrel to minimize flex, changed the trigger, and added updated optics. It made quite an improvement at 600yards+ IRC. Not that I advocate chopping up a PSL.

[Dave]

Kind of resurrecting a dead thread here, but since I have recently purchased one I was wondering what setup you went with. I'm keeping the original wood on mine and currently have a 6x24 russian scope on it, but I was thinking about adding a bipod. I'm thinking about the receiver mounting like in pic 5, and maybe a barrel chop, though I do like the long barreled look.

[islandermyk]

I always loved the PSL or them Dragunov's....

it looks promising if you added a heavy barrel on it and such to make it stiffer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwV0i6nEkSM

compared to a stock barrel


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJC-E0yPOA