SKS General

They tend not to lock in full loaded unless you hold the action open, nothing you can do about it. Also if the locking tab on the mag is too thick it's not going to lock. I have one and actually have just stuck with those cheap-ass Korean mags, they lock in and run fine

>>34604960

It's weird because i have about 9 of these mags, 4 lock in flawlessly while loaded, two seem to be a little finicky and 3 just won't lock in at all. They're all Euro mags.

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>>34604992
That's weird, I have one magazine and it works flawlessly every single time I use it.
>Opting for removable magazines on arguably the best clip-fed gun.
Yikes-a-roni pilaf.

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We just become aquainted last night. Bayonet is in the mail. I cracked her open when I got home to find cosmoline still packed in there. Chinese /26\ for $320. How did I do?

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WHOOO SKS THR- Wait....

>>34605162
Not horrible if the price of the bayonet is included in the $320.

Bought >>34605092
for $300.

>>34605092

I wanted it for the novelty more than anything.

>>34605162

No fixed mag?

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R8

>>34605209
It came with a 5 round mag and no bayonet. Im guessing its an awb era sks.. I had the 30 rounder laying around that I intend on keeping in on it considering fixed mags are like $40.

>>34605191
Bayonet was not included. Technically it would be $342 after I had the bayonet shipped from ebay

>>34605226
>That's an SKS alright.

Are you a Michigan bro? Shit looks like Michigan.

>>34605190

How are these? It's weird seeing a yugo without the grenade launching setup

>>34605246

That's...strange.

The steel duckbills are hit and miss reliability-wise I've found.

>>34605254
Yee

>>34605282
Definatly was odd. Considering the 5 rounder was a little box that barely poked out the bottom. I was actually hoping someone on here knew...

I have heard the same elsewhere about the duckbills. This one was really tight getting in. So tight that I had to work it in and hold the bolt back while I got my girlfriend to release the mag catch to snap it into place. I have no intentions on removing said magazine and just using the gun for its intended purpose of running around in the woods and loading it with strippers

>>34605338

Can you post a picture of the 5 rounder?

I once had an SKS with a tapco 20 rounder in it that didn't cooperate well with stripper clips. I don't know if it'd be the same with your steel mag.

>>34605385
Im at work right now, but I can post a pic in about 3 hours when I get home. It was steel though and it was duckbilled. It looked exactly like a factory 10 rounder except shorter and had an oversized flat floorplate

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>>34605385
>>34605428
Infact, this is it

>>34604960
>They tend not to lock in full loaded unless you hold the action open, nothing you can do about it.
seconded
nobody ever mentioned this shit when talking about the d/m but it is how it is

>>34605438

Yeah, someone removed the original fixed mag to put that in there I'm guessing. To my knowledge SKS's never came stock with duckbills.

>>34605454
I didnt think so. I plan to take it out this weekend to run the 30 I put on it and see how it performing. Im hoping it will be solid considering the lack of wiggle involved in the magwell

My /26\ came with a Bubba'd stock that I replaced, but the replacement has no mount for a sling. Am I screwed or is there a piece I can buy and drill in?

So the other day I took my newly bought sks to the range, put about 120 rounds through it. Took it home and cleaned it, and the gas piston had built up so much soot by the wide end that it had difficulty coming out of the gas tube. I managed to wipe/solvent/fine sandpaper off most of it, so that it slides easy again, but has anyone else had this issue? I even had some blowback soot around the grenade/gas tube area (yugo sks). Please let me know what I can do, or if this is an uncommon issue and how I can fix it.

>>34605905
I would imagine you could just use an AK sling mount held in by two small screws

>>34605183
wew what is that?

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>>34604759

Haven't seen an SKS thread all week, so glad to see one starting up.

Does anybody know how a blade bayonet will fit a spike stock? I've always been curious if they're interchangeable or if stocks made for blade bayonets have a deeper groove.

Pic related is my Norinco, got it about a year ago now, $350 at a gun show.

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eyyyy

What's a good price for an SKS fixed magazine?

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Got pic related from a friend for 300. Came with all its original parts, stripper clips, those yugo leather pouches, sling, and chink harness.

>>34608373

Nice combat boots bro, but that Tapco mag makes me think you're a homosexual.

>>34605183
How do you like 7.62x45? Is it a good weapon?

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Shiny Yugo

I know im gonna sound like a bubba but has anyone found a decent way to mount a scope.

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My Chinese /316\. Do you guys think soft point or hollow point is better for anti-personnel? I've been wanting to shoot all my old yellow box in my vest and replace it with something.

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>>34609793
Have you considered 8M3? Its hollow point that has some impressive effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ENhmMKuaVU

>>34609646

Receiver side mount. I've made a few from steel angle.

You lose tool-less dissasembly, but I like having a rigid scope base.

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>>34609646

Forgot image. Here's one I did for a mosin sporter. It obviously wouldn't need to be that fancy.

>>34608324
I picked one up a Norinco off eBay for $27.50 US. Blueing fucked but who cares. Most ones in good shape going for around $40.

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>>34610196

>>34605303
wya in michigan?

>>34609646
http://scoutscopes.com/t/sks-systems

>>34610196
Kys bubba

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>>34609646
ya

>>34604759
If I wanted to buy an SKS as my first gun, should I get a Yugo or Tula?

>>34610530
Are you canadian? Tula.

No? Yugo.

>>34610476
South Haven on vacation

The Yugoslav is the best in my opinion because it's a fucking commie laser blaster

>>34610563
Traverse City here. Seems like you're a bit of a ways away. Lake Michigan is nice, eh?

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bought a Chinese paratrooper SKS last week

>>34610609

I've always wanted one of the short ones

>>34610635
i got the gun for a steal and it has all matching serial numbers and is in great shape.

shot it yesterday and im really happy with it. sadly it didnt come with the bayonet, so ill have to find one of those. ebay maybe.

>>34610541
Is the Yugo's barrel that big of a deal? I always see it brought up, when comparing the two.

>>34610744
No. Even if you shoot corrosive you need to clean your weapon anyway.

>>34610695

The short bayonets are fairly easy to find

>>34610758
Aight, thanks friend.

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Here's my sks (and ancestor and derivatives) family. The yugo was my first gun and got me into collecting.

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>>34610793

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>>34607417
Czech m52/ VZ52 depending.

Er uhm....

>>34610978
Do you think the Hakim/Ljungman design borrowed a lot from the svt?
Hakim is great rifle but blows bits of crusty 8mm grit in your face each shot

>>34608483
I found that grinding a bit of material off and polishing makes these mags feed better. Plan on testing it this weekend

>>34610509
What did you attach to the magwell? How do I clone this sex build?

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>>34608373
>>34611498

What did you grind off and where? I finished restoring my /26\ to mostly-original condition recently but still have the detachable magazines. I haven't had serious problems with them yet (but I have a promag 30-rounder that completely refuses to chamber) but making them more reliable is always better, I had two FTFs out of about 160 shots fired last time I went to the range.

>>34611620
thats a pretty SKS

>>34611620
I grinded off a tiny bit off from under the feedlips this allows the bullets to be pushed up ever so higher and have a better angle to be chambered. My experience with the crapcos is mainly the first round wont chamber, but after it does they fire fine. Ill test it more at the range

>>34612149

Thank you, I want to add a sling to it but I'm not sure whether a '67 model would have the sling on the side or on the bottom...and whether the swivel I ordered will even let me put it on the bottom.

>>34612173

Thank you very much, I might try this with the nonfunctioning promag and see how well it works. Cute feet by the way.

>>34611620
Is it Bubba as fuck to do this to my SKS if its in great original shape? should i just buy an AK?

ive heard only bad things about adding the 20 rd mags..

Recently got a 1XXXXX serial number Chinese SKS and the condition of the stock and wear of the metal makes me want to believe it saw combat at some point in its life. The stock has a crack in it and is currently glued but I was thinking of refinishing it and doing a more permanent solution to the stock by putting in a screw and sanding it down flush. Is there any reason not to do this?

A person I know told me he would sell my his Chinese sks with bayonet for 300. Should I bite? It looks okay nothing damaged.

>>34614449

Not gonna do better these days.

>>34610793
Anyone here use & like Tech-Sight's GI aperture sights? I have the sight but put off installing it -- chronic procrastinator

How does one replace the cross pin the takedown latch? I recently got one but the previous owner filed or dremmeled off the cross pin that keeps the takedown latch captive, the new part arrived today and it looks like the only way to do it is to peen the thing, but it's so small I can't see a way to do it easily.

>>34615444
peen it
hold it with a clamp

>>34615444
could also weld it solder it braze it jb weld it
or you could forget it because it isnt NEEDED really

>>34615499
Won't that send the receiver cover into my face if the pin walks out?

>>34615550
meh maybe

Is it a sin to stain a Yugo?
I'm using real milk paint dark tung oil and I think it's doing well, but it's a slow go of it.

>>34615618
I'd rather not have that.

I'm looking on forums and they say you can use pliers, but I don't see how.

>>34615625
Too late now.

>>34615707
I think it looks a ton better, but I was wondering if it was a bubba thing to do. At least I'm not making a tapco abomination.

>>34615737
Not bubba per se but you are permanently altering the rifle from its original configuration or condition.

>>34615748
If the thread is still up I'll post before and after pics when i get home from work.
>i kind of feel guilty now

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Just bought a Chinese SKS but Im not crazy about the wood stock. Was about to buy a Tapco stock but saw this weird bullpup conversion and got kind of intrigued. Anyone have any experience with this?

>>34615858
No. Just no.

>>34615858

Keep the original stock and mag if you're going to do something stupid like that, at least.

>>34615858
Wish I'd bought and bubba'd an SKS before they become more expensive than ARs.

>>34604759
I picked up a refurbed 1954 Tula for $450. For some reason it says 'IA' then the serial number.

What do these letters mean?

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things happen friends.

>>34615795

Don't, staining it is perfectly fine and this faggot ( >>34615748 ) is a colossal tard, basically a comic book collector with guns.

>>34615858

Ignore the fags, do it. I once saw an autist on here throw a fit for an entire week over someone using a detachable mag on their norinco, fuck 'em.

>>34615795
Post pics plz

I forget the word but anyone ever have their sks unload on them, the accidental discharge that makes it full auto?

>>34619106
kinda, the first round fired on its own when I closed the bolt once. must have had oil in the firing pin channel.

>>34605452
So basically, if you use them with a mag, you have to load it according to what it would have taken to begin with, or it'll not load right.

>>34619106
Ive heard about it. Seems to be caused by the firing pin sticking due to cosmoline or other gunk. If you take the bolt out of the gun and shake it the firing pin should rattle a bit.

>>34619106

A friend of mine has a Romanian trigger group that every so often makes it fire two or three rounds with one trigger pull somehow.

>>34619930
Sounds more like a slam fire to me

>>34619503
you have to download the ak mag by -1 or -2 or it wont lock in on a closed bolt. some mags will lock in really depends on the magspring strength.

Idk what I'm doing wrong but I can't load with these stripper clips I just got. What could be the problem aside from weak fingers?

>>34620118
Are the boolets just hard to push in? Or did it feel kind of gritty when you put them in the clip? You kind of have to really force it if you got a shitty clip.

anyone have any advice on restoring the sight hood back to its round shape? it looks like somebody dropped mine at some point and flattened the right side of the hood a little.

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My SKS shoots a couple inches high when on the lowest elevation setting. Am I doing something wrong, or are my front sights a tad screwed?

>>34620965
Front sight is too low adjust it or measure the distance you're actually shooting at

>>34605191
i'll give ya $400 for it.

>>34620983
Fug, looks like I have to buy one of those sight tools.
Is there any alternative?

>>34608150
The groove is different I know that much

>>34615858

skip on that foregrip and you've got a solid plan

>>34620965

that's how it's supposed to be.

lrn2pointblank

So i know this is going to get a bunch of not enough info replies. But my brother has a yugo? sks and it worked fine we cleaned it when he got it shot it it worked cleaned it again put it away. A couple month later we shoot it and it jammed shut. OK, Maybe a bad shell shot it a couple more times Worked fine then kept jamming shut but those were just fixed my manually pulling the bolt back. Whatever put it away let me clean it when we get back. Cleaned it nothing was out of place I didn't even see any scratch marks where it would be rubbing. His friend took it out and he said he shot it and the bolt wouldn't move at all and had to beat it back with his hand. Does anyone know of anything that could be wrong?
TL;DR Brothers sks jams shut. Whats wrong?

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>>34622058
If it is a Yugo, are you sure that the gas tube is not shutoff for the grenade launcher? If the gas is cut off it will not cycle, although I do not know why the bolt would be hard to pull back. If I had to guess, I would say that there is some left over cosmoline in the chamber that is causing a sticky bolt. This happened to my mosin when I first got it. Check the gas tube for a little sliding button. It should look like pic related, blocking the grenade sights from flipping up. Clean the chamber really good, fuck around with the button, and let us know if it still fails to work.

>>34622210
Alright quick follow question is it supposed to be to the right or down?.

>>34622283
All the way to the right, like in the picture, blocking the grenade sights from being raised. Press the button in, then you can move it around, its on a spring.

>>34622283
Maybe this will clear it up.

https://youtu.be/VTkBRztuG60

>>34620965
sks rear sights often have a battle setting at the far rear that's just 300m, make sure its actually the lowest or adjust your front sight

>>34610196
Seems a bit...excessive.

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>>34622339
I have my sights set to pic related (pulled it off of Google)
Is this the battle zero?

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Just acquired a Serbian/yugo SKS, does anyone know if shutting off the gas system for straight pullback makes it anymore accurate?

>>34623619
never noticed how much sks sights look like dicks

>>34623619
Yes, that is set to battle zero in the pic, move it to the 100 mark for closer shooting.

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R8 my 52 tula
I (over)paid 500 bucks for this a few months ago as my first gun, i love her

>>34625742
Looks good, I wouldn't say you overpaid, $500 seems to be the standard for Tulas. (In Burgerland)

Guy who needed to replace the takedown pin here, finally did it this morning. Pin is so stiff now that it take some tapping with a hammer to move up and down, but my first SKS was like that so I don't think it's a big deal. It's definitely not coming out and that's what's important.

>>34625742

I had a 51 Tula, really liked it. The slanted gasblock is neat. I only sold it because it didn't have the original stock and the barrel wasn't chrome lined.

>>34625788
I need to replace one on mine, How did you make the pin tighter?

>>34625822
I just peened it and filed it to fit through the oblong circle in the receiver cover.

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>>34623739
>>34623739
if it does it only will be marginal. but hey you can pass it off as as a bolt action rifle if you hunt in states that require it.

Is is possible to convert an SKS to take AK mags, but still be able to convert it back the stock 10 round mag without much hassle?

>>34627129
no

>>34627129
You would have to weld tabs to the teugger group and the mag well but also manage to do it in a way that can be easily reversed. So if you want an sks that takes akbmags, just track down a type d/m

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>>34610793
this is the most canadian thing i've seen all day :)

>>34622210
>>34622316
>>34622329
It's me>>34622058 again. She works great now thanks you guys.

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>>34629424
Glad I could help man.

>>34605162
>320

Terrible

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>>34627556
Give me your entire set of her, and nobody gets hurt

>>34629456
why do you have 6 copies of this pic

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>>34629555
I don't, I have 6 different pictures of my 1986 Yugoslavian SKS.

>>34608373
>>34608324
>>34610196
>>34610509
>>34610793
>>34615858
>>34622331
WHAT IN FUCK IS DONE TO THIS POOR RIFLE? STUPID HICK AMERICAN WITH TEN GALLON HAT AND GIANT PICKUP TRUCK LOOKS AT PERFECTLY FINE SIMONOV KARBIN AND SAYS "NO, RIFLE NEED MORE DUMB SHIT ON IT"?

WHAT IS REASON FOR PISTOL GRIP? IF YOU NEED TO FIRE FROM HIP IN EMERGENCY, NOW HAND IS TWISTED INTO PAINFUL ANGLE AND YOU MISS EVERY ENEMY! LOOK AT WRONG ANGLE OF BAYONET! LOOK AT CHEAP PLASTIC MAGAZINE THAT FEEDS CARTRIDGE LIKE CONSTANTLY JAMMING PEZ CANDY BOX! WHERE DID CLEANING STICK GO?

I HEAR OF 922 LAW IN AMERICA. ADDING PISTOL GRIP TO WEAPON MEANS YOU CHANGE OTHER PARTS. WHAT ELSE YOU FUCK? YOU PUT NEW BOLT EDIFICE? HOW ABOUT BAD FIT RECEIVER COVER FOR CHEAP SCOPE TO SHOW OFF AT HICK PARTY AND NEVER HIT LARGEST SIDE OF BARN?

SURE, IS ONLY YUGOSLAV COPY TYPE BUT IS STILL PROUD DESIGN OF SERGEI SIMONOV. THIS IS LIKE SENDING HIM BIRTHDAY CARD WITH SEVERED OFF THUMB OF DAUGHTER IN ENVELOPE. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SERGEI! I PISS ON ALL YOU CREATE!" LARGE MOUND FORMS OVER SIMONOV'S GRAVE BY CONSTANT TUMBLING OF HIS ANGRY CORPSE. IS FAULT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

RIFLE WAS FINE BEFORE YOU FUCK IT. NOW IS TRASH. MAYBE YOU CHECK IN GARAGE AND ORIGINAL BOLT EDIFICE AND WOOD ARE STILL THERE. MAYBE IS NOT TOO LATE TO KEEP RIFLE SOMETHING NOT SHAMEFUL TO TAKE TO FIRING RANGE. TAKE SHIT OF GOAT AWAY AND COULD STILL BE GOOD WEAPON

>>34604759
Have any of you guys tried any Lucky Shot Wood stocks? Do they fit well?
>Error: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again.
Fine, I won't post a link. Fuck you, Hiroshimoot.

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>>34629735
HAPPY OF TRIGGERINGS CYKA

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looking to get my second rifle and I want it to be an SKS

however I live in California

what do I need to know before buying bc my state has shit laws

what should I look for?
what should I avoid?

>>34630215
Avoid?
California...

>>34629735
>reads in head with a russian accent
thanks for the genuine kek

>>34610509
damn, that mag setup tho

>>34614334
It really depends on the location of the crack and how you initially glued it.
You have to spread the crack then put woodglue in it, close it and let it set. 9/10 the crack will never re-open. Adding a screw is unnecessary and will look terrible. If you do pre-drill the hole and use a brass screw and chop the head off, then sand it flush so it looks like a factory re-enforcing pin

>>34625765
>$500 seems to be the standard for Tulas.

That was what I paid for my 1950 Tula a couple years back.

>>34615858
This thing absolutely rapes what little balance and handleability the SKS has even worse than those cheapo collapseable and folding stocks you see on 90% of bubbas. if you want a better stock just buy a polymer or hardwood fixed stock. Either will be a massive improvement over the stock chu wood. If you have the burning need to look silly, the dragunov-style polymer stocks are pretty solid if still not as comfy as a traditional fixed stock

>>34630215

>however I live in California
>
>what do I need to know before buying bc my >state has shit laws

For an SKS, pretty much nothing. They're featureless, so they don't have to be registered with that new "assault weapon" law. Don't try to install a larger-than-10-round magazine or pistol grip. There ya go. They sell them at Big 5. Go get one.

>>34631276
>Avoid?
>California..

Ya just HAD to be That Guy, didn't you?

This doesn't help.

>>34604759
Friend of mine told me I can generally find an sks for cheaper than an AR, but I can't seem to find one for under 400 unless it's in "needs repair" condition. What do you experts think?