What is your SKS to you ?

What is your SKS to you ?

  • 1st rifle, will never leave

    Votes: 58 8.6%

  • Hunting rifle

    Votes: 10 1.5%

  • Tacticool rifle

    Votes: 8 1.2%

  • Show peice/Collector

    Votes: 39 5.8%

  • Range toy (in what ever configuration that barrel gets warm!)

    Votes: 83 12.3%

  • SHTF rifle

    Votes: 95 14.1%

  • They have consumed me and I cant stop buying them

    Votes: 18 2.7%

  • Fire wood/tent post/what ever I need it to do that day... It will still shoot.

    Votes: 54 8.0%

  • I have never actually owned one

    Votes: 60 8.9%

  • I fit in multiple categories.

    Votes: 249 36.9%
  • Total voters
    674
Canadiankeeper

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I have never been driven to purchase a gun twice, except for an SKS. Even when I get rid of it/them one always finds its way back into my safe...

That being said, the one I just picked up I don't ever plan on shooting it just looked so good!

So what is your SKS/SKS's to you ?

Ill start it off with 2 of my old sks's and the new one I just picked up because... SKS... That's why! .



My old "show" sks... Wish I never sold it.

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A "shooter" grade SKS with a nice filter on it to make it look pretty! She was a BBQ brush night mare, ugly and gnarled but had a FINE barrel and shot well!

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The rifle I just picked up on a whim because I thought it looked pretty... Another "show" rifle...

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Mine... Holds my safe down. I bought one and continue to own it for the same reason I bought and own a Glock. Figure everyone should have one.
 
nikoinwinnipeg said:
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My reason for going to the range...today I ruined the barrel don’t ####en ask !
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Thats awesome! I will post the picture in this thread if you dont mind! It needs to be seen!

Did you do that stock yourself ?

I had a buddy bend an SKS barrel some how, he claims he didn't run it over or anything either?! No idea how it happend... I got it for him for his bday lmao !

Anyways for those who wish to see this is nikoinwinnipeg's SKS
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Canadiankeeper said:
Thats awesome! I will post the picture in this thread if you dont mind! It needs to be seen!

Did you do that stock yourself ?

I had a buddy bend an SKS barrel some how, he claims he didn't run it over or anything either?! No idea how it happend... I got it for him for his bday lmao !

Anyways for those who wish to see this is nikoinwinnipeg's SKS
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I have a thread about this gun not just the barrel thread either :(

https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...P-scope-*-Pictures-*-range-update-on-page-two

This scope and stock will live again ! On another sks lol
 
My first SKS was when i walked into Lever Arms and they were for sale for $75. So I bought one, and eventually bought a bunch more from them. I also grabbed a case of Norinco Silver box ammo and recall chuckling how the ammo was more expensive than the gun.

I used it for years as a general fun gun, we would shoot it at my house, on camping trips, on quick bush forays and sometimes at the range. It was way more fun than a .22LR but didn't cost much more to shoot it, as amo was under 10 cents a round.

I've had plenty of SKS rifles since, some got dressed up, some stayed stock and my favorite one is one I bought last year. It's a Russian rifle with a HiCal mag adapter and Tech aperature sights on the rear, but otherwise stock. 10 round mags and good sights make an SKS a much better "handy carbine" than many other rifles.

Although I never set out to use an SKS as a hunting rifle, I did use a Tacticool one with an Archangel stock, scope rail, mag adapter, bipod and scope to shoot a bear at over 200 yards not long ago. Target of opportunity. Bear went a couple of pases and dropped, one shot.

Although there are a million aftermarket add on's to the SKS, the best single improvement is sights, either an aperature sight of some type or a red dot.

SKS will run far harder and longer than most of thier owners will ever put them to. Recoil springs and firing pins are the only things I've found to actually break, and that's always after thousands of rounds. Always room for an SKS in my collection, they are cheap and serve a purpose.

Also...those Chinese SKS I bought back in the day from Lever Arms pretty much out perform any Russian one I've owned. :)
 
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Every time I sell my SKS, I always end up binge watching SKS videos on YouTube and very shortly afterwards purchase another one. This is my latest purchase to replace the last SKS I sold. My first bubba special.

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First rifle I bough the vary day a got my pal. The sks will always be my fav I love them how they shoot look and its almost indestructible every other firearm I have bought has been a disappointment in some way and The Russian model is the only model in my opinion
 
Mumbles Marble Mouth said:
Every time I sell my SKS, I always end up binge watching SKS videos on YouTube and very shortly afterwards purchase another one. This is my latest purchase to replace the last SKS I sold. My first bubba special.

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that is awesome and I am always looking for a gas tube like that you should keep that one now you just need a classic Russian model
 
858, AR, XCR and a few others yet my SKS bbq paint pos from Cabelas is my favourite. Plan on buying one more. Maybe an AK mag version from Kodak Defense.
 
I must not be a true Canadian GunNut - I only have two SKS!! :eek::eek:

One's a tacticool (Tapco Tacticrap? :d) that I built for the hell of it from a mismatched Russian shooter I got cheap, and the other one is a Russian all-matching (except stock - boooo) that isn't Frankenpinned.
 
Don't fit in any of your categories, but I firmly believe everybody should/must own an SKS.
This is the cheapest center fire fun gun to shoot, period.
Look at the M81 thread, the SKS is at least as good for a small fraction of that price.
Now is the time to take advantage of the surplus ammo while it is still available.
 
It's just a solid, reasonably accurate, semi auto, cheap, and shoots cheap ammo, good enough for deer sized game.
I just wish people would learn to shoot the things "as is" since that is the best configuration. All the cheap Chinese crap and plastic crap stocks etc are a total waste and make them look like ####!
 
hitzy said:
it's just a solid, reasonably accurate, semi auto, cheap, and shoots cheap ammo, good enough for deer sized game.
I just wish people would learn to shoot the things "as is" since that is the best configuration. all the cheap chinese crap and plastic crap stocks etc are a total waste and make them look like ####!
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agree
 
Hitzy said:
It's just a solid, reasonably accurate, semi auto, cheap, and shoots cheap ammo, good enough for deer sized game.
I just wish people would learn to shoot the things "as is" since that is the best configuration. All the cheap Chinese crap and plastic crap stocks etc are a total waste and make them look like ####!
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I wish people would learn how to install a stock properly and stop using airsoft scopes on what is a military grade rifle. When done correctly, a bubba special SKS is just as reliable as original.
 
bought my first SKS after a nice fella let me shoot his at the range. I stay away from tacticool and keep em as close to natural as I can.

I dont know what it is with these rifles but I love them.
 
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