SKS Accuracy... Dang...

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tnxdshooter said:
The 6.8 has the same terminal ballistics as 270 and 6.5 has nearly the same ballistics as .243
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And yet, the 270 does nothing a 30-06 can't already do, and cheaper. Whereas, I'm not seeing many long range builds done in 6.8 spc, or 270 for that matter, in my community.

So, I fail to see your point. Are you suggesting that the 6.8 is ballistically superior to 762x39? If so, I'm sure we know that. But, the OP shoots an SKS chambered in 762, so what does 6.8 discussions ad md to this thread. As I think about it, you're the only one I know who even cares that the SPC exists, let alone shoots it. I've never seen a rifle in my LGS's chambered for it, and I find myself ok with that. I can't shoot it in my ARs as there's no ammo, it does nothing better than anything I already own, and to ACTUALLY add to this thread, it isn't an SKS round! In summation, suggesting a dead cartridge that no one cares about as a solution to a rifle accuracy dilemma solves nothing.
 
meanmrmustard said:
And yet, the 270 does nothing a 30-06 can't already do, and cheaper. Whereas, I'm not seeing many long range builds done in 6.8 spc, or 270 for that matter, in my community.

So, I fail to see your point. Are you suggesting that the 6.8 is ballistically superior to 762x39? If so, I'm sure we know that. But, the OP shoots an SKS chambered in 762, so what does 6.8 discussions ad md to this thread. As I think about it, you're the only one I know who even cares that the SPC exists, let alone shoots it. I've never seen a rifle in my LGS's chambered for it, and I find myself ok with that. I can't shoot it in my ARs as there's no ammo, it does nothing better than anything I already own, and to ACTUALLY add to this thread, it isn't an SKS round! In summation, suggesting a dead cartridge that no one cares about as a solution to a rifle accuracy dilemma solves nothing.
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I don't shoot it and don't even have an AR. In fact I don't even know how we got on this subject!
 
I only saw one mention of slugging the bore to establish correct bullet diameter. My own experience on a very nicely made Chinese SKS gave me a further insight about SKS accuracy that may save others from wasting a lot of time and money trying to fix their rifle. Accuracy with both surplus and WRA ammo was poor, 6" or worse at 100 yards with a lot of flyers was typical. Hand loads did no better. I got some .312 diameter lead balls, lightly oiled the bore and started pushing. The slug was tight through the rear sight area, suddenly loose in the midsection, tightened up at the gas block, then loose up to the front sight. That also explained why the holes in the targets had a black rim on them: enough gas blow-by to coat the ogive with soot. My guess is that in manufacture, the rear-sight base, gas block and front sight were heated and shrunk-fitted to the barrel, which caused the tight spots.
I had spent some money already a scope mount, Tapco stock and assorted extras. The results of this simple test proved that this rifle, no matter how much tinkering, was never going to give acceptable accuracy. It is long gone. Before jumping into 'fixing' one of these guns, check to see if you have a uniform bore diameter, otherwise you are wasting your time and money[emoji30]
 
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Old thread but I have said before......I got a Norinco while they were still coming in and some pee smelling Chinese ammo and was under whelmed. What I did to decrease group sizes by 50 prevent in either direction was simple. I bought Lapua ammo from Finland. Keng's, a major distributor of all things Chinese back then had a lot of Lapua 123 grain FMJ for not a lot more than the Chinese stinky ammo.....and it was Boxer primed. I bought "a little" and still have a few hundred in with my Wolf stash.

In a fit of silliness I traded most of my once fired brass for .45 Colt brass.

Only thing I did to the gun was add a rubber butt pad of sorts oget an extra inch of pull.....what with being close to 6'2" and having arms described as Orangatangish. It is a bit of hard rubber screwed down over the steel butt plate and has a hole to access the cleaning kit door. Hmm, need a new cleaning kit though.

Compared to most Mausers the SKS sights are fantastic. Having a working sight tool is nice though. If I do anything else to it will likely be Tech Sights as I love the ones on a Ruger 10/22 I used at an Appleseed.

From various sources I have heard that more than 4 MILLION of the SKS have been imported, some sources saying over 6 million. May be a Russian design and most in the country Red Chinese but I think I would not be far off describing it as the American Volks Gewar. I have to wonder how many of them went in the ground or got walled up along with lead sealed cans of Chinese steel core ammo during the first assault weapons push and are still there.

-kBob
 
Jamesgr86 said:
Ok, I see this thread is a little old, but I hope you didn't give up, and maybe my reply will help people who come here in the future. I was gifted a Chinese Norinco Sporter from my father. It was pretty cool looking in it's original wood stock, and light to boot. I took it out shooting a couple weekends after I got the thing, and being an ex infantrymen with thousands of hours of range practice and the only one in my company that could out shoot our CO, didnt think what happened was going to happen... which was I couldnt hit a dang thing. Ha, actually thinking back my girlfriend who had never shot in her life before she met me hit a bottle. But I didn't give up, cause I was already planning on bringing the looks of this Rifle to the 21st century. So I had previously ordered a Tapco Intrafuse stock, a pistol grip, bipod and other small accessories for the rifle which I received a couple of days after I had shot the rifle the first time. Once assembled I went out the following weekend and sighted it in. Once sighted in I set up targets and went out about 100 yards, and took a couple shots, direct hit. seemed to easy and the backdrop dirt clouds was telling me I could go farther, so I went as far back as I could before going over the wide dirt road and took a couple more shots. Again direct hits. That was probably about 475 yards. I didnt know of any other places i could go to try further distances. Well a couple months later a friend called me up asking if I wanted to come with him to shoot his roomates newly purchased fully upgraded 50-caliber rifle. Had been bought from a guy who does competition shooting and it had probably $10 grand of work done to it. We got out to a different range in the middle of nowhere drove to a spot and setup a bunch of targets, then we got back in the truck and drove about 2-3 minutes back up the road to a small hill overlooking the valley and the targets. Range was about 1325 yards. After having fun with the 50-cal, and completely blowing out the windows in his poor roommates truck do to the compression.. heh heh heh I told him that might happen, but he didnt wanna listen... anyways i thought hey for ****s and giggles let's see what's what with my sks. so i setup, re-adjusted my scope to the distance we were shooting and windage, probably had 11-15 mile hour winds that day, and took a couple shots, and missed. Oops, had turned the windage the wrong way, ok.. fixed it. took a couple more shots, adjusting for winds, and finally .. bam.. hit... bam .. hit. So, my conclusion with the sks, is ya'll better go out and get em while there still $150 dollars, because yeah, you can't hit crap over 500 yards in it's original form, but once you change out a few things like the stock for one, and a grip and bipod for stability, cost me no more than $160 actually for everything, you can do some damage with these suckers. My shot groups at the ranges of 75-500 yards are all within 3-5 inches in diameter. I dont really shoot over it but since that one day, but I do know you can hit targets with it at further ranges.
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People are really bad at judging distance. And remembered groups tend to shrink a bit.
 
last activity for the OP was 6 months ago. this thread has drifted far from the original topic. please start a new thread if you want to discuss the other topics
 
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