Tim Currie
Member
Hey everyone, quick question on the SKS...
Had it a while now and always shot Wolf FMJ through it, the green shelled Wolf ammo. Never a problem, always fired without fail, dusty or dirty or whatever....never really cleaned it....after all it's an SKS I thought.
Anyhow, ran out of the original case of that Wolf FMJ green casing recently and bought a few boxes of Wolf brand 7.62 from Sportsmen's Warehouse.
Loaded up and fired...jam. The empty is stuck half way through being ejected. Clear it, fire, same thing again, and again, and again. I get off like 5 shots and the last one jams up real good. Like the action was closed shut and I could NOT open it for the life of me.
Anyway, after many swears and half disassembling the damn rifle I get it open with the help of a hammer tap!
So....I go back to Sportsmen's Warehouse to exchange the ammo since it obviously does not like my SKS.
Now, this new ammo is not the green cased stuff of old that I had always fired until this occasion. It has a plain metal, silver case. That was the only thing I could figure would be the problem.
Now while exchanging at the store one of the dudes working there was asking about it and said it shouldnt jam, he has AK's and SKS's and said it would be fine. Then he asked if it as hollow point (apparently a couple of boxes I picked up were HP (they were all mixed together in the stack)). He said that was the problem, that SKS's don't like HP's and I should be ok with FMJ. I returned all of the ammo and when I got home I checked the half used box and turns out it was HP's that I used on that first load and got jammed.
So..... question is: is he right and I need to stick to FMJ, or do I need to stay away from that plain casing ammo and fine some of the green stuff?
Thanks! (wow that seems long.... heh)
Tim
Had it a while now and always shot Wolf FMJ through it, the green shelled Wolf ammo. Never a problem, always fired without fail, dusty or dirty or whatever....never really cleaned it....after all it's an SKS I thought.
Anyhow, ran out of the original case of that Wolf FMJ green casing recently and bought a few boxes of Wolf brand 7.62 from Sportsmen's Warehouse.
Loaded up and fired...jam. The empty is stuck half way through being ejected. Clear it, fire, same thing again, and again, and again. I get off like 5 shots and the last one jams up real good. Like the action was closed shut and I could NOT open it for the life of me.
Anyway, after many swears and half disassembling the damn rifle I get it open with the help of a hammer tap!
So....I go back to Sportsmen's Warehouse to exchange the ammo since it obviously does not like my SKS.
Now, this new ammo is not the green cased stuff of old that I had always fired until this occasion. It has a plain metal, silver case. That was the only thing I could figure would be the problem.
Now while exchanging at the store one of the dudes working there was asking about it and said it shouldnt jam, he has AK's and SKS's and said it would be fine. Then he asked if it as hollow point (apparently a couple of boxes I picked up were HP (they were all mixed together in the stack)). He said that was the problem, that SKS's don't like HP's and I should be ok with FMJ. I returned all of the ammo and when I got home I checked the half used box and turns out it was HP's that I used on that first load and got jammed.
So..... question is: is he right and I need to stick to FMJ, or do I need to stay away from that plain casing ammo and fine some of the green stuff?
Thanks! (wow that seems long.... heh)
Tim