How I dressed my other SKS

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I posted the one with the folding stock before.

This one's got a chote stock, 3x9x40 cheap (but amazingly good) chinese scope, case deflector, ambidextrous safety, bayonet lug cut off, five round box mag.

Spent some money on do dads just because I could and wound up with an over weight, under powered, only acceptibly accurate to 200 yards hunting rifle. So, it was a stupid excersize, but it looks cool. :rolleyes: All in all, I hunt with my .308 M7 Remington stainless. :rolleyes: But, it's a fun range gun if nothing else.

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Some people get mad when people mess with original guns but as this appears to be a Chinese SKS, I don't the problem. It was probably a commercial version and not a military unit so who cares?

I wouldn't do an SKS like that but in a strange way, I like to see what other people have done to them.

For the price, it looks like you have a decent woods rifle that can shoot deer out to a couple of hundred yards. The SKS is a lot of gun for the money and it is neat to see what people can do with them From hunting rifle to assult rifle and everything in between. It is a very versatile gun.
 
There is no law of nature that says cool cannot be real. Nice rifle. Looks cool, looks deadly. Take it hunting and find out.
 
I've killed one deer with it, about 80 yards and a pretty hard quartering shot. It does work. It has the best trigger I've felt on an SKS, nearly no creep, which is unusual at least for the Chinese ones. It shoots about 3" at 100 yards, 6" at 200 with a handload using the 135 grain Sierra "pistol" bullet designed for Contender .30-30 velocities. I'm getting close to 2200 fps IIRC. I've got better hunting rifles. I just sorta got carried away with the catalogs. :D

The scope has a lighted reticle and is very bright and clear. Odd for a cheap scope, but I ain't complaining. I figured I might start using it as a night rifle for small to medium size meat hogs. I don't know if I'd wanna shoot a big 300 lb porker with it, but I don't care to clean or eat a big bore, either. I figure this thing is plenty of gun for 200 lb sows or smaller.
 
I like it! It's tough to even recognize it as an SKS.

They're just too cheap and handy, and have too many accessories not to play around with. Took the bayonet lug off with an angle grinder, myself. ;)

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Where did you find an ambi selector and how hard was it to install?

What do you have in the way of scope mounts? Is it one of those ones that replaces the top cover or is it a side mount that requires you to drill the receiver?
 
MTMilitiaman said:
Where did you find an ambi selector and how hard was it to install?

What do you have in the way of scope mounts? Is it one of those ones that replaces the top cover or is it a side mount that requires you to drill the receiver?
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The ambi safety I got it from a catalog, don't remember exactly which one. I'd see 'em in the "Shotgun News" a lot, too. There was one I kept getting, Center Fire Systems, that was full of add on stuff for the SKSs and AKs. I probably got it from that one 'cause I remember making some orders from them. It was quite easy to install. Have to remove the trigger group. The friggin' safety was $17.50, a little steep, but I shoot left handed and sorta needed it. I put one on my paratrooper carbine, too, along with a folding stock (I got before the ban thing, can't get it anymore don't think) and some other "assault rifle" dress up items. So, the long SKS is dressed for hunting, the carbine is dressed for weekend warrior bling. :D

The mount required drilling and tapping, but it was a pretty easy job. The metal is rather soft. I don't know if those replacement covers would work so well. The cover has some slop in it. Unless there's some way those things limit the wiggle, it wouldn't be too great I wouldn't think. I can't easily take down the action with that mount on it, but don't really have the need. I can clean and lube it pretty well without taking the receiver down.
 
MarshallDodge said:
I like the look. Is the scope comfortable there or is it high?
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It sits a little high, not a perfect cheek weld, but not as bad as those "see through mounts" that some mount on rifles. I can see the irons under it, barely, but can use 'em.

Ths scope is also a little farther back than I'd like. I can't crawl the stock very far with it. I have it mounted as far forward as possible. It's not bad, just a little farther back than I like.
 
All that and you STILL have that crappy ChiCom sling on it?!;) Get a military sling for it. Then' you'll be set. Looks like the scope might preclude the use of stripper clips.

Now get the trigger fixed (easy to do) so that you don't have to crunchenklikken through it. You said it was okay, but if you pull the sear and polish the rails on the interior of the trigger group and also the groove in the sear it will be a pretty good trigger.

I kind of like the SKS...It's not too bad a gun, if you don't expect too much from it.
 
I'm pretty sure the five round mag was a Center Fire Systems purchase. I also got a 20 rounder for my carbine, got the little chinese commie star on it. :D

I picked out that sling, actually. The ones that normally come on them have a spring that goes around the sling attachments on either end. That spring thing makes a lot of noise that is not cool in the deer woods. This one straps on with a button, nothing to rattle.

You'll notice the slide on recoil pad. The stock came with a recoil pad, I mean, not that the SKS has killer recoil or anything. But, the friggin' stock seems to be the same dimensions as the Chinese stocks that come on 'em, great fit for a 10 year old. I had to add some length of pull to it. I have one of those extension things for SKS stocks, but it wouldn't fit. The slide on recoil pad works.
 
i'm setting up my most accurate SKS in a similar fashion, i like the stock you have better than most of the SKS stocks i've seen. i'll have to look into a Choate stock.
 
NICE!

That is probably the sleekest SKS I've seen. It hardly looks like a homely old SKS at all.

I'm going to have to get another one. Mine has some of the coolest looking original wood I've seen, and it's the rarer Yugo 59 that was not converted to the 66 variant, so I don't want to muck it up. I'll have to find an ugly one.

When I do, I'm thinking Choate stock, now. Thanks for the pointer.

200 yards is fine. It's roughly a .30-30, so if it's roughly as accurate as a levergun, that's plenty. Sans scope, it would be lighter.
 
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