Removing Yugo SKS grenade launcher?

[Frog48]

How does one go about removing the grenade launcher from the end of the barrel of a Yugo SKS?

 

[MMcfpd]

My experience (with a link to the real scoop).

 

[Frog48]

Hmm, think i might just leave well enough alone.

 

[Arkie]

Here is another link too.

http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting2005/grlaunchremove2/index.asp


But if you do that you have to replace 10 other parts also to be 922 compliant.

 

[dstorm1911]

there is a pin through the bottom it is formed to the contour of the launcher, find it and remove it then the launcher will thread right off. removing the launcher has zero effect on 922R BTW..... your deleting an evil feature not adding one

 

[bill larry]

Am I the only person that oves the 59/66 the way it is? I love the way the look and feel...like a rifle!

 

[MMcfpd]

Oh I like the original look as well.

The rifle that was the subject of the grenade launcher removal linked above got a Tapco muzzle brake in the place of the GL, along with US made firing pin, trigger, hammer, sear, disconnector, operating rod, gas piston, gas tube and handguard, some of which I know don't count for 922 compliance, and a Tech-SIGHTS aperture sight as well. As tweaked as I'd want it, but still maintaining the original appearance:

 

[Hacker15E]

removing the launcher has zero effect on 922R BTW..... your deleting an evil feature not adding one

I don't think that's true, and that subject has been specifically discussed on the Yugo SKS forum.

The problem is that by removing the GL, you are modifying the rifle from its original configuration....which means it no longer is the same rifle that was approved for import on the BATF list. There is at least one letter from the ATF that has been posted in the forum that says exactly this.

So...if you modify the rifle in any way (including REMOVING 'evil' features like the bayonet or GL), you HAVE to make it 922 compliant.

 

[dstorm1911]

hmmm then Tapco better come up with a whole mess of 922R compliance parts cause they are promoting their crapco telescoping stock directly at the Yugo SKS crowd, personally I like to leave em as they came myself, ya can also cut and recrown the barrel to M59 pattern but still have the gas valve for optional manual operation....

What thread is that letter in that specifically address the removal of the GL? The only ones I've ever seen were in refference to altering the rifls reciever in order to use removable mags, ya see the BATF is only looking at the Reciever of a rifle as being the gun........ otherwise a whole lot of people are in trouble who purchased mausers and M/N bolt guns on C&R licenses then converted em to sporters in fact Century and SOG and Centerfire systems etc... all put a whole mess of C&R Mosin nagants into ATI sporter stocks that in no way resemble the original as imported configuration.

I'd really like to read that BATF letter as I am an importer as well as a licenses gunsmith and such a letter would severally effect much more than just an SKS...

 

[Mr White]

And you'd want to remove the grenade launcher because.....?

I just bought 10 grenade adapters from Samco. I still have about 80 rounds of 7.62x39 blanks and a pretty much unlimited supply of tennis balls.

I found that launching tennis balls into orbit is a great way to meet people at the range. Everyone wants to try it and most are willing to let you shoot whatever they have in return.

 

[joab]

SKS is a non sporting gun
That is why it falls under the 922 regs

It was imported as a C&R
Permanently altering it's features eliminates that C&R status making it an unimportable non sporting gun.

Adding 8, I believe (whatever it takes to reduce the number of foreign parts to less than ten), US made parts eliminates it from imported status.

 

[dstorm1911]

Joab, Exactly which means that every Yugo put into a Tapco or other aftermarket stock is an illegal rifle as nobody makes a USA Trigger, sear or hammer for one the only way to get the parts count down low enough is that someone would have to change out not only the stock but pretty much mandatory to swap out the mag as well and the gas piston.

Every single Yugo that gets a removable mag installed on it is altered from its original status and then must be further altered by the addition of a USA stock with an added USA pistol grip weather they want one or not just in order to get enough USA parts accumulated to get it under the 10 imported parts etc...

So how many folks remove the 10 round fixed mag and install a removable mag or a mag that holds more than 10 rnds?

BTW, The model 59 was importable without the GL as was the Romanian SKS, the Albanian SKS, the Russian SKS the GL is not its determining factor for C&R status the determining factors are FIXED 10 rnd mag, NON-Pistol grip stock this is why the WASR AK can be imported Century then converts them to 922R compliant rifles after they arrive here in the states but as shipped they have no threaded muzzle, no hi cap mag capability, no pistol grip stock etc...

 

[joab]

the only way to get the parts count down low enough is that someone would have to change out not only the stock but pretty much mandatory to swap out the mag as well and the gas piston.

Stock , mag, op rod, and piston are the standard change outs to be compliant
Mag 3

So how many folks remove the 10 round fixed mag and install a removable mag or a mag that holds more than 10 rnds?

Anyone that is worried about being compliant, which is anyone that takes the threat of federal jail time for this offense seriously

 

[Frog48]

And you'd want to remove the grenade launcher because.....?

I wasnt really planning to do it, I was just curious more than anything.

Thats a really good looking rifle. The stock looks like its in amazing condition.

 

[stevetford]

MMcfpd, where did you find the US made trigger parts?

 

[MMcfpd]

The trigger group, which is both pricey and a huge improvement over the stock trigger, came from Rifletech, aka DC Engineering.

Tapco is on the verge of bringing a U.S. made bolt and bolt carrier for the SKS to market.

 

[dfaugh]

Thats a really good looking rifle. The stock looks like its in amazing condition

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But where's the wooden upper handguard? Mine looks just like that (similar condition) but has a wooden upper handguard.

 

[MMcfpd]

Ventilated metal handguard - one of the U.S. made parts that counts towards 922 compliance; and, I like it better than the original.

 

[Neo-Luddite]

You can dump the bayonet and still be fine as a C/R--as this is a 'temporary' mod if you leave the mount--just as puting optics on is OK as well. The launcher can go, but the threads have to have a cap or break soldered on them.

The mag, stock and most parts have to be original or substantially similar replacments to keep it C/R status.

 

[Mainsail]

I’m in with the people who like the gun as is. After I baked out the cosmoline, I sanded the stock and put on some tung oil. It looks beautiful! (Except for the tiny burn spot where I got too aggressive with the baking)

They look great the way they were made. Those ugly stocks and extended magazines do nothing for me.

 

[tmajors]

I just bought 10 grenade adapters from Samco. I still have about 80 rounds of 7.62x39 blanks and a pretty much unlimited supply of tennis balls.

I found that launching tennis balls into orbit is a great way to meet people at the range. Everyone wants to try it and most are willing to let you shoot whatever they have in return.

Okay you just sold me on buying a Yugo to go with my Norinco and Albie. Never liked the grenade launcher but that sounds hella fun.