My first SKS

Your very attractive Battle Rifle has much more potential.
You might be surprised how much easier it is to repeatedly hit small objects at 30-40 yards with a Tech Sight. And at 50 yards, out of nine shots, five were in a small cluster, inside a 1 & 1/2" circle, in the very center of the Shoot N See bullseye. No sandbags or any firm support was used, and with Monarch (Russian) ammo.

Maybe most of you guys are really good shots with the classic sights, but this fully asdjustable Tech Sight has turned my Norinco SKS into a very different rifle.
The original sight can easily be re-attached.
 
I have no use for either item but since it's such a nice original rifle I'd like to leave it that way I think.
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Oh yes you do...

The bayonet makes a nice stand if you don't have a rifle rack handy on the range....

You can get a golf ball/tennis ball launcher for the grenade launcher, or just buy some real practice grenades at a gun show! Great Fun!

I had one and sold it, just wasn't my cup of tea, but I always wanted to launch a grenade from it...
 
Oh yes you do...

The bayonet makes a nice stand if you don't have a rifle rack handy on the range....
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I never would have thought of that.

You can get a golf ball/tennis ball launcher for the grenade launcher, or just buy some real practice grenades at a gun show! Great Fun!
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Actually the golf/tennis ball launcher sounds like it would be a blast and my boys would get a kick out of that, might have to try it. Thanks for the ideas.

Stu
 
You should join "Survivor's SKS forum".

I put a spring loaded pin in mine. At first I had light strikes with it with Russian ammo (steel primers). American ammo worked fine (softer primers).

Bought it from a guy on Survivor's forum so I contacted him about the problem. Turns out my bolt face had some cratering around the firing pin hole. I stoned it flat per his instructions and now it works like a champ.

I also had a guy called "Kivaari" do a trigger job on it. Kivarri is also on Survivor's forum but has a website I'll post in a bit.

Read up on his work by googling "Kivaari trigger job". He does excellent work for a low price. You simply ship the trigger group to him and get it back in a week.

He also makes sure your sear engagement is correct. If it isn't, the rifle can fire if dropped, even with the safety on. There's a way to test it for safety if you look around online. Mine failed the test. Kivaari fixed it so now it passes.

100% improvement over the crappy factory trigger feel.
 
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Mine is a 1986 model.

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Since it's not a collector's item and probably never will be, I opted to remove the bayonet to free up the barrel some. Removed the grenade launcher and added a brake as well as fiber optic open sites.
 
Stu, I think your sling most likely has a somebody's name on it. Yugoslavian is similar to Russian (which I'm currently taking) although it does have several different characters. The short word is almost definitely an abbreviation, although I'm not sure what for. As for the long word, I'm pretty confident that it is Ђурuчaнuн, prounounced "djureechahneen" with the final "n" being soft. Hope that helps!

Edit: "R" is rolled
 
Inspector:
I joined the Survivor SKS boards the same day I brought the rifle home, it's been an invaluable source of info so far. I probably will change out the firing pin for one with the rebound spring. The idea of slamfires really bothers me. You're absolutely right about the trigger, it's awful but I can live with that for a little while until I can afford to have the trigger job done, I'll keep kivaari in mind for that job. By the way that's a nice rifle you've got there, is the stock an aftermarket stock?

rifleman: Thank you for the info, I wonder if the abbreviation is for someone's military unit. The possibilities are endless.

Stu
 
Range update

Took the rifle out to the club today with some silhouette targets I printed from http://www.targetz.com/targetzlib/10101.pdf. I didn't get to put many rounds down range with it, just a box of 20 Wolf 122gr FMJ. Rifle functioned flawlessly and once I figured out where my point of aim should be with these iron sights the rifle was putting them center mass on that little target at 100yds. Not much of an accuracy test I suppose but I was a bit short on time. It did seem to exhibit some vertical stringing but I'm not sure whether it was caused by me or the rifle. We're still getting acquainted so time will tell. I haven't yet decided if I'll bother handloading for this rifle or not. It doesn't seem to me that it will be cost effective to handload when I can buy a spam can of surplus ammo for $140 or so. I guess I'll have to think about that some. Anyway the rifle's a lot of fun to shoot and a cheap plinker to boot so win/win for me I guess.

Stu
 
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