VIDEO ADDED COMPLETED SKS BOLT ACTION by Canuck94

Hitzy said:
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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Saw a couple of other conversions but didn't like them for different reasons and simply offering my version for comment. With regards to the mag I'm not overly concerned if the powers at be decide that it remains 5 so be it and if they accept my explanation and allow me to restore the mag to its original 10 all the better.

Meanwhile I still need to do some sanding and polishing before my buddy welds it together .
 
Bolt carrier is pretty porous material from what I recall.

Good luck, hopefully they don't seize your prohib when you ask them if it's kosher despite various solid opinions given to you here.
 
lone-wolf said:
Bolt carrier is pretty porous material from what I recall.

Good luck, hopefully they don't seize your prohib when you ask them if it's kosher despite various solid opinions given to you here.
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Not worried about anybody seizing anything because I ain't doin anything to change the mag capacity until I get a final legal decision from the authorities.
It's not that porous, it sent up a fine spark during cutting.
 
canuck94 said:
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.
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Yes, If you could make it work, like an m1a using a ten round magazine designed for the bolt action AIA enfield. It isn't an opinion, it is the law.

"4. Magazines designed for one firearm but used in a different firearm

The maximum permitted capacity of a magazine is determined by the kind of firearm it is designed or manufactured for use in and not the kind of firearm it might actually be used in. As a consequence, the maximum permitted capacity remains the same regardless of which firearm it might be used in.

Example:
The Marlin model 45 (Camp Carbine) rifle chambered for 45 Auto caliber uses magazines designed and manufactured for the Colt 1911 handgun, therefore the seven round and eight round capacities are permitted."
 
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You havent mod the mag yet so im glad you're gonna wait and see what the authority says.

Does anybody recall a few years ago? a member illegally mod and posted pics of the serial number of his sks, basically handed the rcmp the evidence.

canuck94 said:
Saw a couple of other conversions but didn't like them for different reasons and simply offering my version for comment. With regards to the mag I'm not overly concerned if the powers at be decide that it remains 5 so be it and if they accept my explanation and allow me to restore the mag to its original 10 all the better.
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canuck94 said:
I will restore the original to 10 by removing the pin.
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Illegal. That would make the mag prohibited.

No modification you do to the gun or the magazine itself will permit you to legally change an sks mag to hold more than 5 rounds.

You'd have to modify some other magazine to work, that was designed from a bolt gun mag. Or pistol mag.
 
So canuck logic is... If you remove the gas block on a AR15, then it becomes a bolt action so you can remove the pin on your mags?.. Ummm no Because you can take that un pinned mag and put it in another other semi auto rifle and bang bang... I don't think eyes of the law will accept that a SKS is a bolt action. Started as a semi auto, can't be a bolt.
 
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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...i'm pretty sure i can come up with a new magazine design that would get around all of this made from plywood, but i'd have to have at least 30% of the market

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The OP wasn't about mod of a magazine. It was about turning a SA SKS into a straight bolt action. I don't see anything illegal about that.I found it very interesting and was waiting to see, how he mounts a scope on it.
 
jaroslav said:
The OP wasn't about mod of a magazine. It was about turning a SA SKS into a straight bolt action. I don't see anything illegal about that.I found it very interesting and was waiting to see, how he mounts a scope on it.
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Turning a SKS into a straight pull isn't the illegal factor. Ive done it many times. Its taking the pin out of his mag, which makes it a prohib 10rd mag because it will be able to work in another functional SKS. It was designed as a semi auto, removing the gas system doesn't make it a bolt action. Only legal way around to get 10rd mags is using XCR pistol mags.
 
OkayShooter said:
Turning a SKS into a straight pull isn't the illegal factor. Ive done it many times. Its taking the pin out of his mag, which makes it a prohib 10rd mag because it will be able to work in another functional SKS. It was designed as a semi auto, removing the gas system doesn't make it a bolt action. Only legal way around to get 10rd mags is using XCR pistol mags.
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I don't understand about XCR pistol 10 round mag. It was not designed for SKS. How can that be legal? People also tell me: You can not slaughter you lamb and you can not drink raw milk from your cow, which is BS.
 
jaroslav said:
I don't understand about XCR pistol 10 round mag. It was not designed for SKS. How can that be legal? People also tell me: You can not slaughter you lamb and you can not drink raw milk from your cow, which is BS.
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The way the law is written, they made the magazine itself either legal to possess, or not, depending on what it's designed for.

What you actually do with it is not regulated. There's no law that says you can't put an XCR pistol magazine into an SKS rifle, or that you can't put 50 rounds of .22 cartridges into an XCR magazine (wouldn't be much use, but not illegal!).

I actually did make an SKS that can use an XCR magazine, which would include the 5 round rifle magazine, or the 10 round pistol magazine. As far as I know I was the first to actually have a working one, as of June 2012. It even had last-round bolt hold-open and loaded from stripper clips. Since then, I've converted it back to the original 5-round magazine, and sold it really cheap (due to being modified...buyer was fully aware). I just wanted to prove it could be done, but I didn't need the hassle of range-experts bothering me about it and trying to say it's illegal (which it is not).
 
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