SKS Thumbs up or down?

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lencac said:
It's just a stamped mass produced disposable firearm
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Sounds cool to those who know nothing about firearms.
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Sounds like you're an expert :rolleyes: ... Pray tell us troglodytes who know nothing about firearms where we can find another reliable .30 caliber semi-auto that can keep all of the boo-lits on a half-gallon milk jug at 100 yards for under or around $150.00?
 
thumbs up i have a norinco i love with an ati folding stock other than that leave it stock
 
I like'em. So much that I have four. Two Norinco's and two Yugo's. They're all great shooters and have never malfunctioned. They aren't AR's, and they aren't AK's, but they are what they are, an inexpensive and reliable semi-auto rifle shooting a decent caliber cartridge.

My SKS's;

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I say, GIT-U-1!:):)
 
Don't do it or least don't do what I did. I bought a cherry import yugo SKS for 300. First rifle. Knew it was a little high but it was new unissued. All evidence said it went straight from the factory to the cosmoline tank to the storage shed. Nice gun with a perfect and beautiful teak stock. So a little buyers remorse but not too much. I plowed another 300 in it for tapco stock, 4 magazines, scout mount, cheap red dot.

Then I wanted an AK. So I bought a saiga 7.62 for 250 (brand new) and spent another 300 decking it out including an ace folding stock. I shoot that sucker much more than the SKS although I think the SKS is slightly more accurate.

If you are short on cash buy the saiga. You get a new RUSSIAN AK in a sport configuration and you can much more cheaply convert it to a pistol grip and standard AK magazine configuration later.

Or buy a WASR10 for 300.


I like my SKS but have given it to my 11 year old son and he is gassed. He had me take off all the tacto cool stuff and put it back to stock. He likes the wood and bayonet. Over time I am sure my nice gun will be worth more than 300 so I am hanging on.
 
SKS have milled receivers not stamped and my yugo does not have a disposable look about it at all. It is a well made solid weapon. If I am out of ammo, broke my bayonet I am sure I could use it as a club and beat the hell out of something and not worry about it breaking.

If the saiga didn't exist I would definitely give the SKS the best bang for the buck nod in a effective rifle caliber semi automatic.
 
Thumbs Up! I have a C&R lic. so I had to get one of the Yugo's and it is awesome. My is in excellent condition and was a lot less then they are running now. Granted it is heavier with the grenade launcher, but between the weight and the recoil pad, it is a great shooter with little muzzle rise. Note, this is not a little carbine. I bought and Inland M1 and that is a little carbine.

I reload. Well I reload, 357, 38, 40/70, 45acp, 30-06AI.

I see no reason to reload - 30car, 9mm, 9x18, 32acp, 8x57 and 7.62x39. I shoot Silver Bear for the most part in both my CZ82 and my SKS.
 
I see no reason to reload - 30car, 9mm, 9x18, 32acp, 8x57 and 7.62x39. I shoot Silver Bear for the most part in both my CZ82 and my SKS.
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I reload because I can reload better ammunition than I can buy. Most of the "hunting" rounds in 7.62 are a joke. I like the premium bullets for hunting. You can keep your Wolf crap. :rolleyes: My 9x19s are $1.50 a box, make my own bullets, all I pay for is powder and primer. 9x19 is going up, too. On my Dillon, I can crank out a box in about 10 minutes. :D I cast bullets in the evenings when I would be laid out watching TV or something else unproductive. Reloading is similar, why watch the boob tube when you could accomplish something with the time?

As to being firearms ignorant, lencac, who made YOU the expert? Long range? Who said anything about long range? Mine's 3 MOA accurate and for some hunting jobs like down on my place, which is heavily covered, 100 yards is about as far as you're going to shoot. If all you like about rifles is 1000 yard shooting, I suggest that YOU are ignorant of the vast majority of rifle shooting in America and hunting situations. We don't all live where we'd CARE about anything over a couple hundred yards, why else would the M94 Winchester be so bloomin' popular? My SKSs never miss a beat. Yeah, they were cheap. I gave 75 bucks for the rifle, 115 for the paratrooper carbine. Where are you going to get an AK for that, or an AR? They work, they're adequately accurate, and they make SUPERB ranch rifles, working guns, toss in the pick up guns. I ain't going to throw a Weatherby Mk V behind the seat of the truck to bang around with tools and such, no thanks. I bought mine, if for no other reason, because I just couldn't turn down a 100 dollar gun that functions so bloomin' well. I mean, in function, it compares VERY WELL to a Ruger mini 30. Why would I wanna buy the Ruger for 4 times the price when I can get just as good functioning gun in the SKS?
 
Man, I keep seeing all these haters of the sks. Calling it crudely stamped, inaccurate, not powerful.

Maybe these kids had a bad experience with one, and got a poorly bored, parts-bin constructed one they bought for $300.

I have a "cheap" chinese and a yugo sks.
Both are not stamped, they are milled.
You can even see the milling marks.
They both funtion perfectly, though the mag on the chinese one
consistently holds open the bolt on the last round. (??)
They are both very very precise.
The shooter is accurate, the tool is precise, guys.
And for power? How about you can shoot a hole through 12" of wood.
When that isn't enough in a semiauto, god help us.

So, yes!
Buy one. You can put a receiver cover mounted scope on it, just make sure it's a very tight fit. You won't be making pinpoint 600 yard shots, but you will be impressed with the 100-200 yarders you can hit. Buy one of those cool dragunov style stocks. You'll love it.
Save money for ammo, but you don't need to reload.
 
I prefer the drill and tap scope mount on mine (see picture). It's solid, gives the gun max accuracy, such as it is. :D

They both funtion perfectly, though the mag on the chinese one
consistently holds open the bolt on the last round. (??)
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Uh, that's what it's supposed to do. That's why they put that little metal doohicky in it that pushes up to hold the bolt open when the magazine follower contacts it. :D
 
Yugo SKS

Put the Tapco stock on it and then you can adjust the youth stock to grown up stock, the tapco 20 rd mags are also great.
 
Don't do it or least don't do what I did. I bought a cherry import yugo SKS for 300. First rifle. Knew it was a little high but it was new unissued. All evidence said it went straight from the factory to the cosmoline tank to the storage shed. Nice gun with a perfect and beautiful teak stock. So a little buyers remorse but not too much. I plowed another 300 in it for tapco stock, 4 magazines, scout mount, cheap red dot.
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Yeah, dont do this.....the gun is a great firearms, rugged and reliable - battle tested and proven. However adding all the TAPCO crap in the world doesnt make it a better rifle. There are good mods out there, *most* dont come out of a TAPCO catalog. Its an easy way to make a $200 rifle into a $600 rifle that still shoots like a $200 rifle (or less if your mods cause malfunctions). No point in it.

If you can buy it and shoot it as is you have a cheap battle rifle.
 
Big thumbs up on the SKS!

I have a Norinco D? or M, I can never remember. 16 inch barrel and takes AK mags. I've been looking for the best price on a Tapco stock. The trigger is going to get smoothed out this spring before it goes into the new stock, and then a Barska 2 x 30 red dot along with a set of Tech Sights. With a 20 round AK mag full of 154 gr soft points I feel well armed.
 
Thumbs down unless you just don't have enough money to get anything better. I'd spend the extra for a Mini14.
 
Funderb, that's odd. Look and see what's bearing upon the bolt hold open thing, whatever the hell it's called, with that last round in. Is it something on the magazine follower that could be bent or filed out of the way? Sounds like something perhaps easily fixed. Might be hanging on the round and nose diving it into the magazine. New magazines are cheap.

Thumbs down unless you just don't have enough money to get anything better. I'd spend the extra for a Mini14.
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Really? Why? .223 isn't my idea of useful for anything except maybe long range varminting and the Mini 14 has no accuracy to brag about, none more than the just as reliable and much less expensive SKS.
 
The OP asked thumbs up or down; that's just my opinion of the SKS. You can (or used to be able to, anyway) get the Mini-14 in 7.62x39. That was the gun I was referring to. Same caliber; IMHO a better gun.

edit: I think they were called Mini-30's.
 
I just don't see where the Mini-30 is a much better rifle than an SKS. They're not any more accurate or more reliable. About the only thing they really have over the SKS is compactness and better detachable mags, but the SKS trounces them on price. Mini-30's retail for around $600 now and for that kind of money I could get something much better.
 
Thumbs Up!

Just shoot it a lot and get to know it before you start to modify it. I've got two (had more). I keep one as issued and I play with the other. It is hardly recognizable as an SKS presently. The thing is I frequently switch parts between the tacticool and the original stuff to "improve" reliability (or whatever).

The SKS is a pretty darn good rifle as is and what what I think I might gain by swapping one part out for another usually means a different "complication" somewhere else.

As for reloading I think it's a great idea. You can't really relaod cheaper than you can by Russian factory loads but I've noticed considerable improvement in group size and the pattern of ejected cases with reloads. Work up a nice pet load but also shoot plenty of factory just to you skill level up.

Most of all, have fun!
 
ditto on the thumbs up. I have owned 4 or 5 over the last 20 years, and all of them were keepers, consistant and reliable shooters. I wish i had kept them all now. still own a chinese para. with a hogue stock that i bought from a buddy, kind of wished it still had the factory stock and mag, though(he replaced it with a 5 rd for hunting) and another 20 rd for plinking.
All in all an excellent investment for the $160 I sank into it
 
The OP asked thumbs up or down; that's just my opinion of the SKS. You can (or used to be able to, anyway) get the Mini-14 in 7.62x39. That was the gun I was referring to. Same caliber; IMHO a better gun.

edit: I think they were called Mini-30's.
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I don't know what Ruger has done with the Mini 30 lately, but they had some sort of funky throating with a .308" bore than neither worked well with .308 diameter bullets nor with .311 from what I read of it. Good groups are in the 4 MOA range with one. Heck, my two SKSs will outshoot that and for a lot less cash! I wouldn't mess with the Mini 30, JMHO. Others might can give more detail on that issue with the mini 30. I just read about it when it first came out and decided I was NOT interested. I mean, if it offered significantly more accuracy or something or the SKS really didn't work as well as it does, I could see your point. But, only thing I can see the mini 30 does is take removable box magazines and look better. I'll keep my 2 SKSs, thanks.
 
Personally, rather than mod one with synthetic, etc, I think you may just wanna get a Saiga in 7.62x39 as they can be had for under $250 and are probably comparable in accuracy and reliability.

www.classicarms.us has some good deals on SKSs and Saigas.
 
the only thing i dont like about my yugo is the weight other than that i have a tapco stock and red dot scope and it is a tough rifle.
 
But...if I wanted to "bubba" an SKS...I'd get a folding stock, laser, and mid-range scope :)

Like I said, Saigas have a pretty good rep also, and if you want something in 7.62x39 and you aren't Mr. Moneybags, look around. By the time you mod out an SKS, you're def gonna be spending 300+. I am very tempted by the Saigas on the page I linked.
 
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