sks stock & magazine compatability.

[JERRY]

can a sks with a stock wooden stock accept the normal capasity mags...? ie duck bills? i know the after market synthetics do, but how about the wood stocks? can you just remove the fixed 10 rounder and install the 30 rounder?

thanks.

 

[DMK]

For the most part, yes. However, sometimes duckbills are ill fitting so YMMV.


Normally I'd agree with you about the "normal capacity" reference to neutered magazines, but in this special case, the normal capacity of an SKS is 10 rounds, just like the normal capacity of a Garand is 8 rounds.

(unless we were referring to an SKS-M, SKS-D or a Norinco Sporter, but we aren't)

 

[JERRY]

thanks for the info, and copy on the 10 rounds being normal.

i might have to try the duckbills with the standard wood stock.

i like the rifle, it is great, but the reloading gets old real quick.

 

[Redlg155]

but the reloading gets old real quick.

Get some stripper clips! They are dirt cheap and a good way to store extra ammo ready to go.

Good Shooting
Red

 

[JohnKSa]

Stick with the original magazine.

The 30 rounders hold more, but clearing jams gets old real quick...

 

[Okiecruffler]

It's good advice in all situations

Get yourself some strippers!!!

Those duckbill mags are so hit and miss, with more bad ones than good, and they aren't nice and quick like a normal detach mag. That bill has to fit in just right and then you have to coax the mag into the well.

 

[cool45auto]

Definitely stick with the original ten round magazine. The 30 round one looks cool as all get out but can be a pain to load and doesn't want to feed good sometimes. Get a handful of stripper clips for a quick reload.

 

[Kaylee]

one more voice of bad experiences with the duckbills.
If'n one wants and AK... get an AK. If'n one wants an SKS.. get an SKS.

But trying to turn the one into something it ain't meant to be -- at least with aftermarket "drop in" parts -- is begging for trouble.

-K

 

[DMK]

CDNN sells some nice, shiny blued stripper clips for pretty cheap. Some of the others are parkerized and may hang up the rounds a bit.

 

[13xx]

Ihave a 30rnd in my paratrooper norinco with a synthetic stock. the only problem I have with it except for being a pain to load is that the stock is either melting from overuse or the mag is just compressing down and it starting to wiggle from side to side, however I have no feed problems now or in the past with it. as far as with the wood stock mine fit but i had to shave it down some and it was a bit tight even after that. i went to a syn stock and it fit fine until it started loosening up. im sure that in time it will start to misfeed or fall out or something like that.

 

[tac17]

The duckbills are pretty horrible in my experience. I prefer stripper clips that work without fail to those POS's that are so hit and miss. With some practice you can operate stripper clips almost as fast as a removeable magazine anyway.

 

[russlate]

My favorite SKS's have always been the Norinco ones originally set up to use the AK magazines. They were to me the best of both SKS and AK. The accuracy and balance of the SKS with close to the AK's reliability, and the magazines of whatever capacity you wanted. 5 rounders for hunting, 10 rounders for a truck gun that didn't scare locals, 15 or 20 rounders to use in tight places, and the 30, 40, and 75 round drums* for FIREPOWER which only counts when you hit something with it.

I still have one SKS, with fixed 20 round mag I installed before the ban. May take some fiddling but then you have an empty chamber with 19 ready on call!

And yes, I have a Norinco Hunter AK. Gotta get that safety lever defanged. I still forget it's not my old Valmet and let it bite me every goldarn time I flip it off.

* The SKS-Ds could use the drums if slightly modified.