Cabela's no longer lists SKS's on line
- Thread starter p.Rundle
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Sks is not ####e it's a great reliable weapon. I have 2 I got frustrated trying to modify one into a assault rifle style, what I had to remind myself is at the end of the day it is not a AR or VZ it is a good old sks so I put it back to original stock and magazine and I find I enjoy them a lot more than when I tried to make it something it isn't. To fix that itch I spent the extra dough and bought a vz. You can't beat the value of a sks though just because it's cheap it doesn't mean poor quality IMO
yes it does
BlackPowderBurner
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They were made for minute of men and they do well they aren't a 1moa rifle
what does "minute of men" mean?
AK47 is good at hitting inside 10" at 300 meters
is that a "minute of men"?
if so the SKS fails horribly
you're either regurgitating what other misinformed SKS haters, who haven't even fired one are saying, or you had a bad SKS, and assume every other one is the same...either way your trolling and it's not relevant to the discussion. I had a buddy who had a really bad SKS, but something had to have been wrong with it it cause I can shoot 8-9 inch groups with irons at 200yards from a bench and bag, and hit 12" steel off-hand at 200 fairly consistently.
again you're misinformed, the SKS is AS if not, MORE accurate than an ak47...and minute of men would be the width of a man's torso at 100m I'm assuming...cause the height of a man would be a gross exaggeration.
rockport guy
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The store in Moncton has them coming up on sale.
p.Rundle
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Actually AK's are more accurate than SKS', although I agree with everything else you said. People just love to hate on a cheap gun that puts out because it makes their expensive rifle look like a waste. Although a trigger job is a very, very good thing to do to an SKS. The stock trigger is god awful.
People tend to forget it was field tested in the battle for Berlin it's a old weapon. Designed for combat not precision marksmanship but for soviet riflemen to be able to put lots of fire down while assaulting German positions and it was a combat effective weapon then and is still seeing action overseas.
I've never personally fired an AK, but one could assume that due to them firing the same cartridge that the accuracy would be pretty similar...regardless of differences in barrel length, I'm sure there are AK's that are more accurate than one SKS, and less than another, while accuracy between various makes of AK's and SKS's varies enough that you couldn't really say one way or the other, without citing specific manufacturers...I can shoot 4-5 moa with irons with both my SKS's, my bet with a scope i could cut that in half at least...so every AK would have to shoot 1.5 moa or better for me to consider it to be significantly more accurate, otherwise in my opinion it's negligible, in terms of an iron sighted battle rifle within their effective ranges based on the ballistics of the cartridge...if only I could have an AK to end this speculation and prove myself wrong
You nailed it with the trigger though...yuck...while my 54 has far less creep than my 50, they're both pretty bad compared to a lot of other guns I've fired..
They still sell them in store. I'm guessing they pulled them from online for exactly the reason others have mentioned. Simply too much hassle to sell online a product of unknown condition and quality. And of course you're always going to get some A-holes that get one without ever bothering to research anything about what he's buying and goes off the rails when he receives what most of us know as your average or even "collector grade" SKS. At least when you sell them in store the buyer can't b**** after the fact because they had the chance to inspect and select.
As for the debate on effectiveness of the SKS. Minute of man out to 300m is good enough for any combat duty. It's service history says enough, still in use globally today. I'd take it to war over any bolt rifle, and if it had a more modern detachable box magazine...well we all know how the AKs doing.
As for the debate on effectiveness of the SKS. Minute of man out to 300m is good enough for any combat duty. It's service history says enough, still in use globally today. I'd take it to war over any bolt rifle, and if it had a more modern detachable box magazine...well we all know how the AKs doing.
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JuicyFruit
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People complaining about the accuracy of the SKS are forgetting that 7.62x39 is NOT a good long range round. The maximum effective range of the SKS being 400m is NOT because of the rifle being sub par, it's because 7.62x39 is not designed for precision work. Objectively, the SKS is a very well built rifle, there is very little that will get in the way of it functioning, you must purposely misuse it in order to achieve a failure. Likewise, an SKS in good condition is more than accurate enough for it's intended purpose within 400m, if you can't hit a man sized target with an SKS, and your SKS is not a bucket of bolts, it's your fault.
If for whatever reason, the Russians decided to build more SKS rifles in an arguably superior cartridge, you'd most likely see much better accuracy past the current limit of 400m.
If for whatever reason, the Russians decided to build more SKS rifles in an arguably superior cartridge, you'd most likely see much better accuracy past the current limit of 400m.
