How do we fix the least aesthetic part of the SKS, /k/? I'm

>>32539212
Rifle is fine.

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>>32539269
I disagree.

>>32539311
Rifle is fine. So how would you fix it? Do you understand how the platform operates?

>>32539351
>angle cut the back end of the carrier/charging handle a little bit
>ak slant the dust cover and extend the front and top to cover the new gap made when the carrier is forward
>back end of the recoil spring guide rod now has a little hollowed out tab extending down to interface with the retaining pin

easy aesthetic achieved with nothing more than a custom guide rod half and dustcover

>>32539212
This is unironically my favorite part of my SKS. It's just so distinctive and funny looking, it makes the gun cute.

>>32539489
So just make it look like a Saiga? Why not just get the saiga

>>32539775
came here to say basically this

OP is a faggot

the metal buttocks gives the SKS a distinctive look, a sort of muscularity and robustness

>>32539809
>OP is a faggot
Confirmed.
don't listen to this asshole raifu we love you the way you are.

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I mean they're extra parts that dont permanently fuck the gun in any way. my line of thinking is that one could somehow stabilize the dustcover for optics or to be better suited to the tech-sights.

>and nobody noticed that I shooped the barrel and bayo shorter

>>32539804
because SKS has full wood stock and integral bayonet, very pretty

>>32539212
What? That's the best part. Just like the Browning A5, you can't help but love it.

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>>32540156
>optics
>on a Russian carbine

>>32540156
You clearly have never seen how the mechanism works. Go buy an sks and try what your describing.

make the wood stock end right there and give it an underfolding wire stock.

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>>32540412

>>32540386
This. The carrier spring reacts against the back of the dust cover. Which is why it is flat like that. Modifying that would change the direction of the force and prevent the action from cycling.

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>>32539212
I like that part.

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>>32540156
You're a stupid fucking nigger, that's for sure.
But in the case of your shortened barrel length, The chinks imported a 16 inch SKS in the 90s, most cal it a paratrooper, or a carbine. As for your sight mount, some of the same rifles came with a mount on the left side of the receiver bellow where the dust cover would be.
But your ass sure as shit don't deserve to own one because you could not possibly appreciate them in their natural form anyways.

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>>32540156
My tech sights work just fine and im not really sure how angling the cover would have any effect on the way they are supposed to be mounted.

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>>32540455
>>32540156

Here. shitty MS Paint crop from some parts from a teardown.

This is the dust cover and the carrier spring assembly from the inside and upside down.

As you can see the back of the dust cover is thick AF because the carrier spring pushes against it.

It's not an aesthetic feature. It's part of the way the gun is engineered.

^ I should also mention that's one of the things that makes the SKS one of the sexiest guns IMHO.

It has no aesthetic features. Literally everything on the gun is the way it is for engineering purposes. It just happened to look good in the process.

>>32539212
Rifle is fine.
>>32539311
This is hideous.

>>32540639
The same with the SVT-40, the dustcover has a square profile.
I wonder if pressing the thumb of your shooting hand against the back of the dustcover helps with recoil control. In theory your thumb acts as a spring or recoil buffer of sorts.

>>32540604
Is there supposed to be that much gap?
Also it doesn't look level

>>32539212
Stop complaining and enjoy your SKS you nigger.

Nyet, Rifle is fine.

>>32541315
Capitalist pig always obsess with make rifle beautiful It's like he want to fuck it. Sends his wife to work instead.

Just make rifle to work and make wife beautiful.

>>32541234
/thread

>>32540156
>optics
rifle is fine

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>>32539212
You see, if you make the rest of the rifle uglier, no one notices the receiver hump.

>>32539212
>SKS
>Aesthetic
Pick one.

>>32539212
It looks fine, the slant shit you keep parroting looks like a very shitty bubba.

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>>32539212
Easy, have the Czechs do it.

>>32540207
but the A5 makes it look like a part of it, the hump flows.

>>32540604
yeah, but dont they interfere with removing the dustcover? this whole thing started with me thinking of a way to attach a peep sight that wouldn't be in the way of anything

>>32540545
and both rifles I posted are Yugoslavians, that were never cut down to "para" or farmer's friend length by importers

>>32540606
I know how it works, I know what it looks like and i don't know why you bothered mspainting the background?

>>32542267
>parroting
what?

>>32542291
and the czechs managed to make a fucking genius piston system on a sexy gun, around a much better cartridge.

>>32542291
Lawd.

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atleast on the SKS the receiver ends at the grip. it's not a bad looking gun compared to a lot of other automatics that either stop before or go beyond it.

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>>32543490

>>32542208
You poor thing... let me see you

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Are SKS's becoming an irrelevant meme? Now it seems the cheapest they go for is ~$400, and food is ~25c/round. Entry-level prebuilt AR-15s start at $500, and 5.56 also costs ~25c/round, but now you actually have detachable mags and parts accessibility. If you still wanted to use 7.62x39 out of Russian fetishization, entry-level AKM clones eating the same food start at ~$600.

SKS's might have made more sense three or four years ago when they were $300 and milsurp ammo was cheap, but now 7.62x39 and 5.56 NATO cost exactly the same. I can honestly only justify buying one if you're a /k/omrade living in an AWB state. Even the mag limits aren't a big deal, because you'd be stuck with the same 10 round limit in an SKS anyways.

>>32543563
I still have an sks because it's history and cool. It's also another rifle to have in the arsenal. It can still get the job done despite the capacity limits. Stop over thinking this...If you want one go buy one and enjoy it. Fuck man.

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>>32543563
>tfw I can pick up an sks for $200 CAD
>tfw $0.05 CAD per round
>tfw I took advantage of SVT40s being $200 CAD each a few years ago

>>32540200
Modify your saiga then.

>>32543563
History, reliability, hope that Trump can bring us cheap as fuck surplus and surplus ammo again.

>>32543992
Now load 10 rounds into it

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>>32539212
Do you enjoy the texture of your food, because I get the feeling you aren't much one for taste.

God damn it someone post Ivan. I don't have the pasta.

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>>32545345
This one?

>>32543563
Some people are willing to pay 150-200 more than its value because they're a thallus sturdy as fuck "military quality" rifles in 7.62x39. It's not a totally flawed idea to still buy one at current prices, personally I wouldn't but that's because I have ARs out the ass right now

>>32545405
That one will do I guess but it isn't the one I am thinking of. You know IVAN who used to always post in all caps with a heavy russian "accent".

>>32545520

But they're not funny anymore.

>>32545345

>change scares me so i need to comfort myself with stale memes

>>32545541
How is classic not funny anymore?

>>32545541
they were never funny.

>>32545552

because people adopted it as a mantra and made sure there could never be any quality threads about AK/sks/mosin modification

>>32545552
>posts in all caps with broken english
wow so classic. what are you, 13?

>>32543563
> 5.56 = 25c/round
> food = 25c/round

Source: Bubba fudd gun shop I frequent because I'm a cuck with online buying

>>32542291
You know there's a gunshop near me that sells these to poor fuckers stupid enough to buy them, I knew a guy who thought it was a 7.62x39mm and I had to explain to him it was a 7.62x45mm and that the shop had no ammo for it.

funny how they want to sell a gun they have no ammo for. I mean sure, collect it. But unless its a re-chamber or you can reload your own rounds, it's practically worthless. You can get ammo for a nagant or a C96... but you just can't for a VZ52. I mean I heard shit about being able to find a rare listing online or maybe in a gun show... but if I can't stockpile 100 rounds for it and have the ability to buy more... huge turn off.

literally the most unique part of the sks. if you don't want an sks get an ak.

>>32540156
нeт

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>>32539212
>Mom's nipples

Great, now I have an erection

>>32544843
tis better to own 6-7 SVT40s than only one for the same price

more boolets and shit you know

By getting an ak instead

Name one thing an SKS does better than an ak besides being legal in Canada

>>32546170
Looks and feel. That's about the only thing I care about in this debate. And if I wanted a handy rifle in 7,62x39mm, I'd get a Vz.58

>>32545520
RIP Ivan Chesnokov

>>32542208
Someone, please call a Doctor.

>>32546170
Legal in MA too :)

>>32543563
>becoming
They became irrelevant in the US as a cheap beater about 4 years ago. That's when the nugget took over.

Now the nugget has also gone the way of the SKS and there is no more dirt cheap surplus rifle.

>>32539212

Rifle is fine.

Just got my 4th in the mail. Actually my nicest one. Chinese made Type 56. Capitalist pig sticker on the end. Non refurb. Great shape . Action smooth as silk, no corrosion or damage anywhere on the rifle. Wood stock feels nicer than my Soviet refurbs and hardwoods. Whole rifle tighter over all.

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>>32547248

Whoops! Forgot to add the picture.

>>32547248
>>32547257
Is that the same "Chu wood" they used for the Type 53? I fucking love the feel and look of that wood. It gives me wood.

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>>32546943
>>32545520

What would you fags say a Russkie SKS' market price is these days? $500?

>>32547317

200$ in Canada. I'll sell you one or two for about that huhuhu.

>>32547267

I'm not sure to be honest. I think they made most with catalpa tree wood. Looking at pictures and stuff I can't identify right now.

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>>32547352
>200$ in Canada.
DAMN YOU SYRUPNIGGER. I'm right on your border so don't you forget that.

>aspie uploads himself defacing grandfather's SKS

https://youtu.be/rK4y_PwXhw0

>>32547387
Would've been funnier if it was a rickroll

>>32543505
L E W D
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>>32545843
Vz52/57s were chambered in x39

>>32545552
a joke is only funny twice.

>>32539212
Tec sights

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>>32539212
Looks pretty sexy to me.

>>32539212
Its flaws only add to its beauty.

>>32539804
>Live in Cali
>Near impossible to find a Saiga before new laws passed now it's only a dream that will never come true.

>>32540604

LOL wtf did you bro?? The "arms" of the techsight are supposed to be level with the crack between the dustcover and the receiver. This makes the rear base of the techsight parallel with the rear of the dustcover. You should only be able to fit like an index card between the sight and the dust cover if it is installed correctly.

Literally what in the flying fuck am I even looking at like how did you fuck up that bad?? How do you even shoot that thing?!

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rilfe looks good to me.

>>32539311
A dust cover for such an open system, kek. Why bother.

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>>32547161
Hold up. Ivan was all the way back in 2010? It feels so recent...

>>32543563
>tfw i picked up a russian sks w/detachable mags for 500 in december

Did i fuck up?

>>32539311
delet this

>>32543563
They go for like 2-300 CAD here in Canada.

Hell, some Mosins go for more than them here.