...The SKS...grade school in Maoist China...

I bought one of those ugly sporter stock Norinco SKS "paratroopers" that take AK mags back just before the ban. Never even shot it. Still in the box. Never really had a desire to shoot it. Got other stuff to shoot. Probably give it to my kid I guess.
 
I worked part time in a pawn/gun shop. I'd go by in the morning and work until time to go to the PD. Anyway, we had gotten in a used carbine length SKS, back when prices were about $69. I took it home and worked off the price.

A local gun shop was giving SKSs away with a $200 purchase.
 
Mine is an older Chinese SKS. Milled receiver and a blade bayonet. It's fairly accurate, but definitely not a precision rifle. It has failed to fire two or three Yugoslavian soft point rounds, but otherwise has been reliable.
 
LVSteve said:
Ever tried a French MAS 49/56? There's an accurate rifle in there somewhere trying to get out from under a 15 lb+ trigger. It can be improved by changing where one of the trigger return spring legs sits.

Amongst the SKS crowd the Chinese guns are considered the most accurate out of the box. My SKS is a Russian refurb with a blackened bolt.
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When checking in to Customs back in the states, the officer was totally focused on the SKS. He pointed it up and dry fired. His comment was something like: "Is this what they are using to fight you all in Viet Nam? This is one crude rifle!" I have to agree with him. Anyone saying that an SKS is accurate, has never fired an accurate rifle, IMHO. I probably have dry fired the French rifle in a gun shop, but it didn't leave me with as powerful a negative impression of the trigger pull as the SKS. On a positive note, the SKS had a chrome lined bore, not the chamber, but just the bore.
 
...I haven't shot my Norinco Chinese SKS in a while...

...I remember it as pretty accurate...and that it ejected empties straight up...a LONG WAYS UP...
 
My Norinco SKS has the round spike bayonet attached to it.
As well as the cleaning kit in the stock and the cleaning rod still with it as well.

Pretty accurate for what it is.
Much more so than my Yugoslavian AK.

Now my Wyndham 7.62x39 cal AR is far better accuracy than either of the others.


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I have a Russian and a Romanian. Both are excellent rifles. Since the Russian looks to have never been fired? that’s the way it stays. The Romanian has spent considerable amount of time at the range and is a good shooter! Never an issue with slam fires? Just always stripped and cleaned it very well when finished shooting it.
Definitely good rifles for a collection! :cool:
 
Pondoro said:
I came home from work one day during the Clinton Administration. (It feels soooo good not to have to say, "The first Clinton Administration.") My wife asked me, "What is an SKS?" I told her that it was an imported surplus battle rifle. She asked how much they cost. I think the going rate was $70-$100 at that point, and I told her the estimated price. She said, "Bill Clinton wants to ban them. Get me one."
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That lady, sir, is what is known as a "keeper"! ;)
 
This thread is useless without pic’s. Here’s my 1950 Russian and two Norinco’s, one with a spike bayonet and a Sporter that takes AK mags. Very reliable rifles. I’m not a big fan of fixed mags on a military type rifle. So that’s the reason the Sporter is a keeper. As far as 7.62 goes, I don’t think the accuracy is much different than my milled Bulgarian AK47. Generally, the US 7.62 rifles were more accurate. But, I believe the steel cased ammo is inherently less accurate.
 

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I like how they foster "THE SPIRIT OF THE BAYONET!"
Yes, like so much ComBloc weaponry, crude-have you ever handled a PPSh M1941 or PPS M1943 ?-but easy to manufacture and train conscript troops with.
 
In terms of accuracy, I suppose it is enough to say they are accurate enough to shoot human sized targets at intermediate distances (I was always happy if I shot a 3" group at 100 yards). They are certainly rugged. Some 20 years or so ago I was told they cost one tenth what an M-16 took to manufacture. That sounds believable -- goodness knows an SKS in not nearly as "partsy."
 
I entertained thoughts of reloading.......

ParadiseRoad said:
...I haven't shot my Norinco Chinese SKS in a while...

...I remember it as pretty accurate...and that it ejected empties straight up...a LONG WAYS UP...
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...and even got some brass boxer primed ammo to reload. The first time I shot it the cases were all over the range. I recovered about half of the brass cases I bought. Oh well, TulAmmo is cheap. Right now at least.:confused:
 
Big E3 said:
This thread is useless without pic’s. Here’s my 1950 Russian and two Norinco’s, one with a spike bayonet and a Sporter that takes AK mags. Very reliable rifles. I’m not a big fan of fixed mags on a military type rifle. So that’s the reason the Sporter is a keeper. As far as 7.62 goes, I don’t think the accuracy is much different than my milled Bulgarian AK47. Generally, the US 7.62 rifles were more accurate. But, I believe the steel cased ammo is inherently less accurate.
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Please educate me in my ignorance. I though all SKS’ have fixed magazines. I am obviously wrong. I though that was the big advantage of the AK—the ability use detachable magazines.
 
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