VIDEO ADDED COMPLETED SKS BOLT ACTION by Canuck94

You can buy bolt action rifles that take AR 15 magazines, even though the gun is bolt action, the magazines are still to be limited to only 5 rounds.

The magazine is designed for a semi auto, so it is limited, your straight pull bolt action is a neat idea, but it will not allow you to legally unpin the magazine.
 
The magazine itself is a prohibited device if it can hold more than 5 rounds. Although it is not detachable in the sense that a modern magazine is, you can take the rifle apart and move the magazine to an ordinary unmodified SKS.

Maybe if you weld the modified magazine to the receiver of your bolt-action SKS, in a very permanent fashion (not just tacked on, but as permanently as you can), you'd be okay. In that case it would be difficult to argue that it fits a regular SKS. Even better would be to make your own magazine. Maybe you could use the "door" part that opens, and remake the actual part that holds the cartridges. Then it's a home-made magazine specifically designed for a bolt-action rifle.
 
mdmaroon said:
The magazine itself is a prohibited device if it can hold more than 5 rounds. Although it is not detachable in the sense that a modern magazine is, you can take the rifle apart and move the magazine to an ordinary unmodified SKS.

Maybe if you weld the modified magazine to the receiver of your bolt-action SKS, in a very permanent fashion (not just tacked on, but as permanently as you can), you'd be okay. In that case it would be difficult to argue that it fits a regular SKS. Even better would be to make your own magazine. Maybe you could use the "door" part that opens, and remake the actual part that holds the cartridges. Then it's a home-made magazine specifically designed for a bolt-action rifle.
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Nope. You can do what ever you want to it, is still an sks magazine whether it's welded or not, your modifications don't alter what it is. Even if you made your own magazine, It'd still for a semi auto sks reciever according to powers that be. What's going on beyond the receiver doesn't matter in regards to magazine laws. No frt for strait pull sks
 
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tiriaq said:
The gun may be a bolt action rifle. The magazine was made for an autoloader. Just because the rifle is now manually operated, this does not mean that the original SKS magazine is now a bolt action rifle magazine.
Run your opinion past the SFSS. You have no doubt had dealings with them in the past.
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The general consensus on the subject is that because the magazine was made for a semi, then it must be limited to 5 shots, even if the gun now is a bolt action. So by that interpretation, if I take a pump action with a tubular mag capacity of 10 and convert it to semi, (and I can) the mag is still legal at 10 because it was designed for a pump?????

Opinions and law are not necessarily the same.

I would like to stay on subject which is this project gun and not politics. I'm not advocating that everyone should do as I do, only showing what I'm doing in another one of my sks modification projects.

I have tinkered with this project for quiet a while and did a lot of research in doing this mod and I think that I have put together a neat idea that will be fun to shoot.
 
I'd be concerned about welding on the bolt, even tig. In would have just made a 2 piece clamp on adapter to extend the bolt handle.
 
Watchout, I think I just heard the black helicopters go buy, they should be at your place soon. In all seriousness, if/ you run into an Leo while using that you will have bought yourself a one way ticket to jail.
 
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I think your thread might get nuked
 
canuck94 said:
The key element to your thought process is aftermarket 30 shot "removable" magazine and it would not be advisable to modify, however (and let's be clear here, we are doing the same as the authorities would do and that is interpret the writing of the law) a fixed magazine is part of the gun and in my opinion (and my opinion goes back more than 4 decades when John and I founded Marstar in Hawkesbury) the gun is now legally a bolt action rifle.
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Been tried, and as mentioned does not fly with the law.
Probably nothing to brag about being affiliated with disgraced dealer Marstar btw, not going to help your reputation.
 
Hitzy said:
Been tried, and as mentioned does not fly with the law.
Probably nothing to brag about being affiliated with disgraced dealer Marstar btw, not going to help your reputation.
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Not to worry, the original Marstar was dissolved 40 years ago and I was never part of the current one...........

People who do not try only because someone else tried and failed never accomplish anything positive themselves.
 
canuck94 said:
Funny how one comment about maybe removing the restrictive pin would generate more argument than the actual modifications to the entire gun to convert it to bolt action use.
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because the straight pull bolt action SKS has been done already, you are not breaking any new ground here http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/07/10/1moa-sks/
The mag thing has been looked at for at least the last 20 years, also nothing new you are trying to do there. Continue with your project, but if you want more then 5 rounds you will need to mod it for one of the AR15 pistol mags.
 
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