What’s the best 5 shot group you’ve shot with an sks and irons?

Is it true that the rifles were stamped with a number on the front face of the front sight post. I read somewhere that the number stamped there represents the accurcy of the rifle. 1 being the most accurate.
 
Took out my stock tula sks a week ago. Shooting Chinese surplus ammo, iron sights.

At 50 yards
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And at 100 yards
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Plenty good enough. It's a semi automatic carbine, not a DMR.
 
Nice^

I gotta get back out and give it another go, I have some more visible targets figured out for the 100y try. Not to much snow at the range yet to prevent me from driving to the 200y range lol.
 
Best i ever could manage would scare the 4" mark at 100 paces

My buddy however has dumped enough cash into his in mods he could be shooting a sako but ive seen him shoot an honest 1.5" with sierra reloads. Cant recall bullet type. He has taken deer and wolf with it. Last i talked to him he was planning on using it for black bear
 
Butcherbill said:
Nice to see they all aren’t minute of barn door :)
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Very few of them are.
The internet is full of utter horse #### that gets repeated and repeated until people reading it think it's gospel.
A 70+ year old rifle that can put 5 rounds of old surplus war stock ammo into a 4 or 5" circle at 100m with stock irons is far from inaccurate.

But if enough idiots on internet forums keep saying it is, enough people will believe it.

The only right answer to "how accurate is the SKS?" is: plenty accurate enough!
 
BAAC said:
More accurate than 90% of the people holding them...
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LOL i was thinking that as i was reading this thread.

Well that and you all are much better shooters than me.

I tried my 53 Tula at 200m the day i got my sight adjuster and sighted her in. Had a hard time hitting paper. My front sight post was much larger than my target backer. Pulled it back to 100 yards and was happy to see 4" +/-
 
Blokeontherange from youtube said it best when describing the accuracy of (can't remember the type) a military surplus rifle; "good enough for government work".

Indeed.
 
chewy06 said:
LOL i was thinking that as i was reading this thread.

Well that and you all are much better shooters than me.

I tried my 53 Tula at 200m the day i got my sight adjuster and sighted her in. Had a hard time hitting paper. My front sight post was much larger than my target backer. Pulled it back to 100 yards and was happy to see 4" +/-
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Cut out a big old 24" high triangle shape out of some sturdy cardboard.
Then get a large piece of target paper. A good 2ft by 4ft piece.
Spray paint the shape of the triangle upside down so one of the points on the paper is pointing down with black spray paint on the white paper.
Put that at 100m 200m or even 300m
You will be amazed how well it works with iron sights to get a consistent hold point on it. It's the only target I use.
The bottom of the triangle point is a perfect reference to hold POA for the center of even the thickest front post and the bottom tapered point will keep your front post returning to the exact elevation POA as well. You should even be able to see it well out to 300m
I can get 10 rounds of 7.62mm surplus ammo into a 18" circle at 300m using this target with my Israeli Mauser just prone off a bag.
Thank me later Sir ;)
 
Travis Bickle said:
Cut out a big old 24" high triangle shape out of some sturdy cardboard.
Then get a large piece of target paper. A good 2ft by 4ft piece.
Spray paint the shape of the triangle upside down so one of the points on the paper is pointing down with black spray paint on the white paper.
Put that at 100m 200m or even 300m
You will be amazed how well it works with iron sights to get a consistent hold point on it. It's the only target I use.
The bottom of the triangle point is a perfect reference to hold POA for the center of even the thickest front post and the bottom tapered point will keep your front post returning to the exact elevation POA as well. You should even be able to see it well out to 300m
I can get 10 rounds of 7.62mm surplus ammo into a 18" circle at 300m using this target with my Israeli Mauser just prone off a bag.
Thank me later Sir ;)
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That's a great idea. Thanks.
 
I have had a handfull of sks rifles. I for obvious reasons mainly shoot surplus. So if it doesn't group overly well for example I had minute of pie plate lol. with 1-2 sks out of 10 or so never tried new surplus ammo or newly manufactured just sold it. The bores weren't bad either. I remember an sks with an ugly dark bore, strong rifling that grouped like a dream with surplus. I mostly would say 6'' ball park give or take with surplus is about average for me at 100m if it shoots worse I get rid of it. I have some that group wonderful and some that will hit that 6'' ball park target everytime but in the end its a 6'' grouping.

at 50m 1-3'' 5shot groups is a I would say pretty standard.
 
I cant see nothing at 100m with irons, so I don't bother with the SKS anymore. But the Mosin sniper with the scope, can shoot pretty good if I do my part. Ive had nickle and quarter size groups with it a couple times using regular surplus ammo.
 
DILLIGAF said:
Thats because we used Irons, If we had Crapco Dust cover mount and NC Star scopes we would have way better groups :)
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Speaking of scopes.. :) Kinda offtopic here, because it's not Irons.

I'm experimenting with my another Russian SKS now. This one got a trigger job done at hical and I'm experimenting with the pieces of optics I have in my stash and slapping them on the rifle just for fun. This one was with a cheap 3x Cabela's scope at 100 meters. This time it's 5 rounds and I was getting similar sized groups quite consistently. Now I really want to install the biggest scope I have and test how far I can push the rifle's limits.. :)

 
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