SHTF with a SKS

[spiroxlii]

Both my SKS rifles (Yugo and Chinese) are super-reliable with strippers and the stock 10rd fixed mag. Once you get used to it, reloading is fast.

Both rifles would not function with a 20rd hicap mag I bought at a gun show. It was a cheap steel magazine, and the failures were all PURELY magazine related. The rifles are (and always have been) solid as a rock.

I've heard that Tapco hicap mags are reliable, but I have never tried one myself, since the original 10rd fixed mag functions well enough that I am not compelled to try anymore hicap mags at this time.

 

[Ignition Override]

Elmerfudd:
You mentioned Stalingrad.
The Soviets developed the shorter MN 44 partly in response to the need for a shorter rifle, didn't they?

Don't have an AK, but my "cherry" SKS will continue to work well long after I'm gone.

Keeping a nearby river protected from floating fruit.