Plinking Fun Chinese SKS

[TJm15.38]

Got in a little trigger time with the SKS Carbine. This rifle will never be a target rifle, because of the heavy trigger and crude sights (not to mention my 73-year old eyes; is that the front sight or the target?). Nevertheless, it is still shooting to point of aim at 100 yards with Wolf (Russian) Military Classic. I would call it "minute of bad guy,"

 

[lihpster]

Wish I hadn't gotten rid of mine, for several reasons. Might have to pick up another soon.

 

[Sam McCord]

Nothing wrong with that group although I don't think I'd be leaving an $800 rifle lying on the ground

 

[HARLEY0]

I was at a gun show years ago a short while after the Vietnam war.
I bought an SKS from a vet for $100.00. He did have the capture papers when he first got it but never did find then for me.
It is a shooter and a collector!

 

[alwslate]

If you're happy with that group then that's fine. My Chinese SKS will shoot 3.5" groups at 100 yds from benchrest with Chinese FMJ ammo.

 

[silicosys4]

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[MelvinWalker]

Nice little paratrooper.

Doesn't look like an SKS paratrooper to me? It looks like a standard SKS.

 

[silicosys4]

Doesn't look like an SKS paratrooper to me? It looks like a standard SKS.

Could just be the angle, proportions look just like my paratrooper sporter

 

[TJm15.38]

It's a 20" barrel. I have heard of the "Paratrooper" with a shorter barrel, but I have never seen one. I think this was a commercial SKS all the way, because it looked unissued when I bought it, but it had a ton of grease (It's not cosmoline) in every cavity and crevice. Took me a week to get all that stuff out. Since then, it has just been a dream to shoot. Never had to make a windage correction and was able to correct the elevation with my Tapco AK/SKS tool to sight the gun at 100 yards with the Wolf ammo.

 

[rockquarry]

It's a 20" barrel. I have heard of the "Paratrooper" with a shorter barrel, but I have never seen one. I think this was a commercial SKS all the way, because it looked unissued when I bought it, but it had a ton of grease (It's not cosmoline) in every cavity and crevice. Took me a week to get all that stuff out. Since then, it has just been a dream to shoot. Never had to make a windage correction and was able to correct the elevation with my Tapco AK/SKS tool to sight the gun at 100 yards with the Wolf ammo.

I bought two of these around 1990 when they very cheap. Fun to shoot but a very crude gun at best.

 

[45Smashemflat]

My uncle told me that he had a captured SKS while in country, intending to bring it home. But about the time he was to leave they changed the rules and certain SKSs were not allowed to be taken. As he put it, “mine had that squirrely writing on it, so I could not bring it home.”

I still kick myself for not buying a few when they were $89 in the barrels at Roses….

 

[.455_Hunter]

I got mine in May of 1994 as a senior in HS right before graduation. My second ever 4473, I paid $124 for the what I thought was a NIB recent commerical production Norinco with all the accoutrements. Turns out it actually was an unissued 1967 production milspec gun. I just got a small size Limbsaver recoil pad a few weeks ago and it does wonders for the LOP. Definitely a "never get rid of" gun for me.

 

[MelvinWalker]

I bought the first one that anyone knew of in my county in Tennessee...It was in 1987 from some of the first that were imported by PolyTech...It was $180, which was a decent amount of money at the time. I didn't find them to be crude at all. The early Sino-Chinese versions were made like Brownings.

 

[Glenn R. McMannly]

Those have become highly collectible and valuable little shooters.

Just remember, when they’re worn out they’re worn out. Keep that in mind for resale.

 

[jaguargolf]

I've seen them for sale $700 in the Lower Hudson Valley

 

[TJm15.38]

Nothing wrong with that group although I don't think I'd be leaving an $800 rifle lying on the ground

Ha! $800? This rifle was bought around 2013 for $300 and I thought that was expensive back then. To me it is a beater rifle, although I don't abuse it at all. It's a shooter and probably had several thousand rounds through it. I repaced a firing pin and an extractor, but otherwise it just keeps on going. I'll take good care of it as long as I own it. Between this one and my Arsenal AK, I have several thousand rounds to shoot and I intend to get through them before I end up in the dirt next to this SKS.

 

[LVSteve]

Nice little paratrooper.

I don't think that is a paratrooper. On a paratrooper the bayonet attachment is directly under the gas block. 20" barrel is the standard length.

 

[rwsmith]

I LUV my SKS. It's one of my 'fun guns'.

 

[alwslate]

There was actually no such thing as an SKS Paratrooper. The ones sold in the US as Paratroopers were altered standard models to create another market to sell more guns to American shooters.

 

[MelvinWalker]

There was actually no such thing as an SKS Paratrooper. The ones sold in the US as Paratroopers were altered standard models to create another market to sell more guns to American shooters.

Correct....A contrived market based gun that never existed outside of Century Arms and other importers wishes....I never wanted one as I like the looks of the standard 20" version.