Your talking about the Saiga Ak-47, and not the Saiga 12, right? I wanted to buy the Saiga 12 but decided against it.
Yeah. I have a Savage pump for a shotgun. I wanted simple, idiot proof, tank-like reliability. I was not excited by what I read about the Saiga shotgun.
I have an AR & the Saiga AK. SHTF and I could only keep one it would be the AK. I love the 20 second field strip compared to the AR's cleaning, and its ability to fire cheap ammo reliably and get by with minimal half ass cleaning, among other things. Someone said the AK was designed for illiterate, drunken conscripts who fall down in the mud a lot. That's the carbine for me.