Was the SKS a fail?

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It isn't even an SKS, I'm on a bit of a tangent, but hard to tell in a thread of this caliber.
 
Probably already been said....if the SKS was a fail then so also was the M14. Both introduced new cartridges, and the 308 was set aside for 223. Infantry weapons went low recoil, light weight and portable ammo, and designed to be effective to 150 yards.

Simply a transitional time in firearms design.
 
Beavermeat are those 16inch guns about to obliterate the coast that is this thread? Oh, SVT sniper, you would be proud....By the way, if the sks were a boot, what kind of boot would it be?
 
Suther said:
Nope. Nothing can come close to the Lee Enfield. It is STILL in use today by the Rangers, so thats 120 years of service. Not to mention its ceremonial uses and whatever else...
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The No4s used by the ranger are not a 120 year old design. If they were using Lee-Metfords than that comment would have merit. It was introduced in the late 30s and not officially adopted until 1941, so 74 years of service. The SKS was tested in 44, adopted in 45 and put in widespread production in 49. It was produced by more countries in greater numbers and used as an official front line tool of standing armies
for longer.
 
The SKS is a second generation semi-auto that was never intended to be anything but a stop gap rifle, to be issued to illiterate conscripts, who could be trained to use it as fast as possible. Mind you, the AK was and is also issued to illiterate conscripts, who can be trained to use it as fast as possible.
 
FFS Sunray. For the last time, the illiterate conscripts were in the late 1800s and they were issued a simple rifle THE MOSIN NAGANT. The Soviet army wasn't full of illiterate conscripts in the 1950s.
 
fat tony said:
Maybe illiterate conkscripts are issued Berdan rifles? :p
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They had an extensive literacy overhaul after the revolution. Still, one of the reasons of the AKs simplicity in their own reasoning was the questionable technical ability of many of the peasants and rural personnel.

"is gun, gun shoots, what more do you want?"
 
Thresher said:
They had an extensive literacy overhaul after the revolution. Still, one of the reasons of the AKs simplicity in their own reasoning was the questionable technical ability of many of the peasants and rural personnel.

"is gun, gun shoots, what more do you want?"
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You mean the same lack of technical ability that allows Russia to be the only country that can get supplies and personnel up to and back from the International space station on a regular basis? :p
 
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