SKS 'nade launcher

[N3rday]

Ok, so I know a lot of SKS rifles come with an integral grenade launcher. My question is:

Where is it? I can't see it! I know I'm only looking at internet photos, but jeez, its kind of hard to hide a grenade launcher!
I guess I am used to the m16s with the massive underside grenade launchers...I don't really have a practical purpose for a grenade launcher (well, duh!), but with the rifle running at $139, I'll take what i can get!

Does someone have an SKS photo from a different angle that shows the launcher?

 

[MLC]

The long ribbed barrel is the grenade launcher.
It shoots rifle grenades.

 

[P95Carry]

Here is the ''business end'' .. with the launcher muzzle fitting and the grenade launch sights in the up position... (which requires rotation of the gas valve to shut off gas pressure transfer to bolt mechanism).

I have not yet seen the assembly that would be fitted on to employ this .... perhaps someone else can elaborate.

 

[MLC]

 

[N3rday]

wow, that makes alot more sense, especially with the picture!

 

[DMK]

Here's a view from another angle. (OK, it's just an excuse to show off one of my rifles)

 

[Langenator]

In one of the SKS forums on Gunsnet, they had a whole bunch of photos of SKS's in action. Two with rifle grenades, and one of those actually caught the thing in flight.

Can't link at the moment...I'm at work and Gunsnet is blocked.

 

[Quartus]

I have not yet seen the assembly that would be fitted on to employ this .... perhaps someone else can elaborate.

Don't know about the SKS for sure, but if it's like some older grenade launcher designs, that's all there is. The grenade slips OVER the ribbed portion. Aim and fire.


Launching grenades is very hard on rifles. In WWII and Korea, it was common practice to set one rifle aside as the 'grenade rifle'. It wasn't used for anyting else, and usually was beat to death pretty quickly.

 

[SodaPop]

What is the barrel lenghth with the grenade launcher?

 

[P95Carry]

Just measured Soda ... exact 24" - breech face to end of launcher piece.

 

[SodaPop]

I look at those YUGOs everytime I go to a gun show.

I don't know.......................................

They're so darn inexpensive........

 

[P95Carry]

And so's the ammo!!

You owe it to yourself to pick one up!

 

[LynnMassGuy]

Yes. Get one!

 

[SodaPop]

But I already have a Russian.

 

[LynnMassGuy]

 

[P95Carry]

But I already have a Russian.

Sorry Soda ... that excuse just doesn't cut it!!

I had the Yugo but then found that a Norinco sorta ''came along'' ... it happens!

 

[Chipperman]

"But I already have a Russian."

Your point being?

 

[outdoorman63]

and

i have a yugo and an albanian..that way they arent alone..and i keep hoping they will mate and make me a new sks...can i dream

 

[busdriver72]

Hey Dude....a Russian and a Yugo.....got it!

Go ahead and getcha one!
Try it...you'll like it!

 

[armoredman]

AIM surplus is still offering free shipping on thier $89 Yugos....

 

[Dionysusigma]

This might just be me, but...

Okay. You've got the grenade stuck on the end, the grenade sights up, and... then what? How is the grenade fired? Is there a special 7.62 x 39 "Grenade Fuse" that you have to load first, or does a standard 7.62 FMJ activate the rocket? Not that I have an SKS or a grenade, but this is something that I've always been curious about.

 

[Blain]

Here's another close up.

 

[HarryB]

My first 2 SKS's

Also a Ruskie and a Yugo

 

[Dain Bramage]

The grenade is launched by firing a special blank cartridge, with the gas port turned off, as previously stated.

There are rifle grenade systems that use a bullet trap with a standard FMJ cartridge, but the SKS is not one of them.

 

[HarryB]

Interesting thread HERE with pics.

The launched nade is visable in the first pic.