possible heads up for sks owners

Threads like this are annoying. The SKS is obviously not at risk of being re-classified as it doesn't have the appropriate characteristics. Any semi-auto, from Remington Model 8 to Garand, can slam-fire under certain conditions of disrepair or improper ammo, etc. If certain CT's are worried about anything it's probably the potential for assuming liability in cases where they've sold rifles directly from shipping cases to customer with no inspection or even rudimentary efforts to judge their condition and without a sale contract that states CT is not certifying these elderly rifles as "safe to shoot". Think about it- if you were running a multi-million dollar store would you sell these rifles to the public? I bought a couple from the Leduc CT and they were basically lifted right out of the crate and into boxes and I pushed them to the till in a shopping cart. No recording of PAL info or even, to my knowledge, serial numbers of rifles. It was great but did seem a bit strange.

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magnumair said:
The RCMP call the SKS an assault rifle, whatever that means. Silly guys.
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That right there should disqualify them from classifying any gun.

Sounds like a malfunction. Wouldn't it be the cats-ass to get a full-auto version that ended up in the crate by mistake. I'd probably have disassembled & cleaned the bolt a dozen times before I figured it out. :rolleyes:
 
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I was kind of surprised they sold them to begin with. Surplus guns are a crap shoot and I could see it being easy for someone to get a damaged rifle, or of course not clean a plugged barrel of Cosmo or grease and blow them self up...
Could also be some in pinned rifles sold as I'm sure it has happened!
 
Craig0ry said:
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I love when people bash them, they ask if your shooting minute of barn wall. I have chinese and russian, shoots 5" steel plate at 100m alll day errrdaaayyy. More for me!
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Mine's a single-shot SKS. Bang, FTF, manual feed, bang, FTF, manual feed, bang. 5 MOA sounds about right too. Meh, for less than $200, it owes me nothing.
 
Silly that CT imposes a stop sale on these rifles and the firearms community goes into a tizzy. Especially being that they just recently started selling the rifle.
There are plenty more available from other providers who were selling them before CT ever was.
Its great that CT is in the game, and I've bought numerous guns from them. But this is a due diligence procedure on CT's part.
I know for a fact that CT corporate would prefer that only modern hunting bolt guns and water fowl shotguns be sold in their stores.
So corporate was on this latest "concern" like white on rice. It is their chance to finally put the kibosh on military surplus in their associate stores. I hope I'm wrong about that though.
 
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Initially, boil the bolt assemby, then disassemble and clean again with a q-tip (I use ZEP orange cleaner in a spray bottle).

Rinse all the parts with hot water, let dry and reassemble. You will now have one pull/one bang.
 
NaviDave said:
Initially, boil the bolt assemby, then disassemble and clean again with a q-tip (I use ZEP orange cleaner in a spray bottle).

Rinse all the parts with hot water, let dry and reassemble. You will now have one pull/one bang.
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thats what i did when i got mine. but i thought shooting tons of corrosive would get rid of the gunk.. lol
 
Never understood the SKS bashers,for under $200 it just can't be beaten,its accurate enough,cheap enough,and fun to shoot.
Do some people hate it just because its not Black,because its Russian or Chinese and they have that retarded fear of 'Commies' still in 2014?
 
They never record my info at CT for ammo either.... Last week I picked up a crate of 7.62 that was stacked in the aisle, walked up to the cash, purchased the ammo and then told then informed the cashier that I was walking out of CT with 1300 rounds of 7.62 and nobody checked my PAL... I thought for sure a manager or somebody would get to me before I left, but nope. When I got home I called CT and informed the manager of theit mistake

seamus30 said:
This must just be at certain stores, at mine they only ever look at the card to make sure its valid, they've never recorded my info for firearms or ammo.
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SKS45 said:
They never record my info at CT for ammo either.... Last week I picked up a crate of 7.62 that was stacked in the aisle, walked up to the cash, purchased the ammo and then told then informed the cashier that I was walking out of CT with 1300 rounds of 7.62 and nobody checked my PAL... I thought for sure a manager or somebody would get to me before I left, but nope. When I got home I called CT and informed the manager of theit mistake
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You da man!
 
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