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So my stock is loose after only 600 rounds or so fired, is about 1/16th inch of play front to back.

Is bedding a SKS difficult? or should I just ram some beer cans behind the action in the stock?

Note I have never bedded a rifle but I have worked with fiberglass and epoxy before many times and watched a few youtube videos and it looks brain dead easy.
 
I'd try and shim it first before I got out the fibreglass resin.

Is it shifting while the trigger group is locked in or when you have it apart for cleaning? Iirc my one shifts a tiny bit when the trigger group is out but not when it's all together. I'm not sweating that one any.
 
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Wood dries out over the years and shrinks, one way to bring it back is applying double boiled linseed oil to the inside of the stock. do it in very thin layers afew times a day for a week or so and the stock will swell up.

If you never done bedding before, the SKS is not a gun you want to learn on...
 
bp2626 said:
I would rehydrate the wood with BLO as suggested for longevity of the stock.
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I haven't had a chance to sweat the cosmo out of the stock yet and it reeks of it so im sure there is a lot in there. so im hesitant to apply anything to the stock till I have a chance to try and sweat the cosmo out.
 
Is it shifting while the trigger group is locked in or when you have it apart for cleaning? Iirc my one shifts a tiny bit when the trigger group is out but not when it's all together. I'm not sweating that one any.
 
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I haven't had a chance to sweat the cosmo out of the stock yet and it reeks of it so im sure there is a lot in there. so im hesitant to apply anything to the stock till I have a chance to try and sweat the cosmo out.
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Cosmoline will be melting out of the stock for damn near a year.
 
After I shoot my BBQ refurb (I shoot corrosive at the moment), I take all the steel out of the stock to rinse it under hot water ..so shimming wouldn't work for me as every time, the same re-shimming process would take place...

Maybe I'm over doing it? OP, maybe using a small portable steam cleaning machine would help to get the wood stock to swell a little?
 
Well it's fixed, for now haven't shot it yet.

I decided to start with the cheap easy fix and shim it. I used a piece of very heavy weight glossy photo paper, cut into a strip and folded over on itself.

As above poster mentioned I thought re-shimming would be an issue/pain in the ass but it was so easy it adds 1 min at most, I mean really cut strip fold strip stick it in stock. Done.

Will update how it holds up to firing on the weekend.
 
I cut strips from brass shim stock and folded up a "V" shaped wad that when packed down I was able to add more pieces, into the open end of the V, for a very tight fit. I put the V in with the filler wad partially inserted so that I have the space to swing the receiver down into the stock. When in place the filler wad is tapped down into the V and snugs up whatever gap is left and pushing the receiver forward into the stock cross bolt.

Inevitably it all gets compressed from shooting and you can easily add more pieces as needed to the filler wad. Hope this makes sense, IMO shimming your SKS is the quickest and easiest way to "accurize" it, short of working up some handloads.
 
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