What is more fun to shoot, AK47 or SKS?
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The AK by far..
SKS's are fun to shoot but not near as fun as AK's. AK's just have a certain feel when your shooting them. The feel of the bolt cycling while your shooting is just great. Its kind of hard to explain but you will know what I'm talking about when you shoot one.
SKS's are fun to shoot but not near as fun as AK's. AK's just have a certain feel when your shooting them. The feel of the bolt cycling while your shooting is just great. Its kind of hard to explain but you will know what I'm talking about when you shoot one.
RockyMtnTactical
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They are different. An SKS will never be an AK, no matter how hard you try. If you want the AK, get it, but trying to turn an SKS into an AK just won't work.
FWIW, I like the SKS, personally. At least between the two.
FWIW, I like the SKS, personally. At least between the two.
Omnivore
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They're both a lot of fun. Make plans to own several variations of each, plus a few ARs, some nice bolt action rifles...
dstorm1911
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Yugo AK with grenade launcher and a dozen home made dummy grenades with ariels in em or M80s its a tossup between blowin stuff up or pretty lights
buenhec
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Aw hell, ok, Im getting my AK, cant really go wrong for a few hundred dlls right? Thanks for the good info.
judaspriest
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SKS is more accurate and way underrated compared to the 6MOA AK. I'd keep the good old SKS if I had to choose
dstorm1911
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Judas..... 6 MOA huh??? were ya shootin with your eyes closed? the AK and SKS when fired from a shooting machine both are identical as far as accuracy.... the main difference is with the shooters of each, those with poor shooting form will do better with the longer sight radius and heavier SKS those with a higher skill level will always shoot either accuratly
DMK
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I bet I'll hit the target with all 60 rounds from my SKS.
I think that's what you wanted us to tell you. Now put that SKS back in it's original stock with the fixed mag and enjoy both as they are supposed to be.
stan in sc
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I much prefer shooting my Chinese SKS over my WASR10 AK.
tinygnat219
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Either one. I prefer the SKS since it has a longer stock. AKs are fun to shoot and those high capacity magazines are also fun.
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This should be made into a pole.
buenhec
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I will add a poll. Good Idea. How do I do that? I went to edit the original post and it did not give me the poll option.
MCgunner
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If you just like to yank the trigger a lot, stick with the AK. If you like to actually HIT the target once in a while, while yanking the trigger a lot, get an SKS. Mine are about 3 MOA guns, adequate for 100 yard plinking at 3 liter pop bottles (after the pop has been drank, of course ) . With an AK, you'll trim the grass around the bottle. Oh, you'll hit one now and then by pure accident. My SKSs are fun range guns, what I really got 'em for, just to play with. I never had the desire for an inaccurate rifle, so I don't own an AK.
I've shot a half dozen AKs over the years and the best one was between 4 and 5 MOA. No thanks.
) . With an AK, you'll trim the grass around the bottle. Oh, you'll hit one now and then by pure accident. My SKSs are fun range guns, what I really got 'em for, just to play with. I never had the desire for an inaccurate rifle, so I don't own an AK.I've shot a half dozen AKs over the years and the best one was between 4 and 5 MOA. No thanks.
Have you ever shot a variety of quality "non WASR" AK-47's? Mine shoot just as accurately as my Yugo SKS's do. I can't stand this myth that AK-47's are these horribly inaccurate rifles. The fact this myth still exists leads me to believe 2 things.
1) Many of these conclusions are based on results from POS and/or poorly maintained rifles
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2) Many "amateur" gun owners buy this as their first (and many times only) rifle because of the "image" associated with it. These people probably couldn't hit the broad side of a barn no matter what you gave them....may be no fault of their own, but still.
These two "gangster wannabe's" took some tacticooled out AK to the range I frequent one time with some POS scope on it, couldn't even hit the target stand at 50, brought it in to 25, still nothing. I suppose anyone watching them probably thought all AK-47's must be super inaccurate. Many "aw dog this" and "awww dog that" laters, they left.
my .02
stubbicatt
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For the AK, I've never grown to like the 7.62x39 cartridge. I have them in 5.56, 5.45 and 7.62x54r For the x39 cartridge I much more enjoy shooting my Russian laminated SKS. It seems more accurate, and I prefer it.
Good luck in your choice.
Good luck in your choice.
I was actually talking about the mag capacity that MOST AK's and SKS's come with. Most AK's come with a 30 round mag and most SKS's come with a ten round mag. Some SKS's are fitted with 30 round mags and some AK's have 5 to 10 round mags, but USUALLY it's the other way around.
Even when you do stick a 30 round mag on an SKS then reloads with it aren't as quick as with the AK as you've got to fiddle with it in order to get it into the mag well due to that piece of metal that juts off of the the front of the SKS mag. The AK mag doesn't have that and just rocks into place rather quickly.
As far as just pulling the trigger as fast as you can when both have the same initial mag capacity without reloading time and being able to use it well factored in then I imagine that they'd be about the same.
Just thought I'd make myself clear before it turned into some kind of pissing contest.
ndolson said:
I have to agree on the crappy mags out there for the SKSs, as I've thrown a lot of them out myself, so good point there. I've found a couple that work well in mine though. I'm actually referring to cyclic rate capabilities of the two weapons, I could be wrong but I believe the SKS is capable of a faster rate of fire.
Browning said:
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I was addressing ndolson's post.
dstorm1911
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Well don't know bout the "SKS" but my T-68 (dealer post sample) is rated at 500 rnds per minute the AK at 600 and when fireing onea my 3 NFA AKs in my left hand and the T-68 in my right hand both with 30 rnd mags the AK goes CLICK first everytime.....
Bazooka Joe71
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Who cares?
buenhec
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My 20 round mags I got from Tapco have never jammed, heard lots of bad things about the 30 round ones.
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