orangeninja
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SKS...if a Russian potato farmer with a first grade education can figure it out...so can you.
(1) The mini is somewhat easier to work on. (I own a mini and occasionally clean my wife's Russian SKS for her.) Neither one is hard to clean, but the mini is slightly easier to disassemble, and the action pulls completely out of the stock after field-stripping.Which is easier to work on for the lay person?
Which is a better performer
Which round is a better performer?
Russian SKS's are very good, BUT also very expensive. My wife bought hers in the mid-1990's for $99, but the last one I saw in a gun store (in 2003) was a dog compared to hers, and they wanted $325 for it.If its an SKS, which one? Russion, Chinese???
If you don't plan on putting a traditional scope on it, the standard mini is better (better rear sight). If you want a traditional rear-mounted scope, the Ranch Rifle is better since it comes with scope rings and built-in bases. If you are planning on a forward-mount scout scope/red dot/holographic sight, either will work since the best way to do that is to replace the upper handguard with an UltiMak forward rail (www.ultimak.com).If it's the mini standard or ranch?
LOL! Now I just need a van, a mohawk, and the ability to construct a main battle tank from a dumpster.benEzra, I didn't know you were a member of "The A-Team"
Every single one of my SKSs was made more than 30 years ago - I think that the economic benefit to the Yugo or Chinese government/workers has long since been OBE.American made (don't think I need to outline the superiority here, not to mention supporting American workers)
You must have some really excellent hi-cap Mini mags. Every hi-cap I ever tried in my Mini was doomed to a life of FTF's.Reliability: the mini is far less finicky with magazines; SKS's often don't like high-caps (especially detachable ones). I don't recall ever having a failure in my mini,
And the moral to this is to stick with the stock SKS 10-rounder. It's boringly reliable.but every SKS I have used with hi-cap mags has suffered failures. However, with the stock fixed magazine they are quite reliable.
I can usually drop in a stripper clip and recharge the SKS factory fixed ten-rounder in about the same time that it takes to drop and replace the Mini's detachable mag or an AK mag, but an AR will beat me every time. YMMV.-reload speed: Even the detachable SKS mags take far longer to change than a mini.
I dunno - my Yugo's has an excellent fit-n-finish, and my Norinco had fewer tooling marks than any Mini. Both come with cheezy furniture.-fit and finish: self explanatory
It's really not hard to play the 10-parts-or-less game with the SKS. Last I counted, getting a TAPCO op rod and gas piston plus an aftermarket mag and replacement stock got you there. Other than the op rod and gas piston, chances are that the stock and mag were gonna get swapped out anyway. Certainly, there are a whole lotta bits-n-pieces out there for the SKS if you're so inclined to tinker.-accessories: you can do just about anything you want to your mini without breaking laws
That's a fact, although the non-Yugo SKS's are really pretty handy in their own right (and handier if you'e willing to carve some unecessary metal off of them).-weight and length: as others have said, the mini is just plain handier.
This has me scratching my head - I don't have a clue how you could arrive at this conclusion. I could field-strip my SKS faster than I could my Mini under just about any conditions.-breakdown: The mini is easier, period
True for the most part, but I suspect that the SKS is more consistant in its performance than the Mini. I've shot many friends Mini's and owned one, and it just seemed that you never knew what you were gonna get (a good one or a bad one) when you bought it.Accuracy of the two is comparable.
rbernie said:You must have some really excellent hi-cap Mini mags. Every hi-cap I ever tried in my Mini was doomed to a life of FTF's.