My SKS magazine is allowing more than 5 rounds..

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Using stripper clips the other day I could load 5 rounds and trying to load the 6th it would be too tight. However after about a half hour of shooting using the clips I was able to push in 6, and then 7 and now almost eight if I really tried. After 5 its resistant but still very easy to push in the rounds.

The follower in the magazine well is defenitly pinned, and all I can conclude is that the follower arm is bending to allow more than 5 rounds.

Should I be worried here?
Is this a common problem with this rifle?

its a norinco that I bought from milarm just a few weeks ago, it had never been fired (brand new) and I hadn't fired it myself before this incident.

let me know ;)
 
Yes, you have a problem. You're in possession of a rifle that has a greater magazine capacity than the law allows.

Fix it, or take it to someone who can.
 
Well I really don't want to send this back, edmonton is a 3 hour drive and I don't want to mail it if I don't have to.

Well if I remove the pin that allows the blockage, and replace it with a nut and bolt that is welded or poxied in place would that suffice?
I could drill out the pin and add my own... I'd rather do the job right then send it back to milarm where they'll probably just give me another one with the same problem.
 
Brentn said:
Well I really don't want to send this back, edmonton is a 3 hour drive and I don't want to mail it if I don't have to.

Well if I remove the pin that allows the blockage, and replace it with a nut and bolt that is welded or poxied in place would that suffice?
I could drill out the pin and add my own... I'd rather do the job right then send it back to milarm where they'll probably just give me another one with the same problem.
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fix it yourself ???? what for? beside looking like crap with nut and bolt and poxy, there is no reason why you should do any fixing when you bot it new , they sold you something that doesnt comply with the law so i say send it back and get it fix by pros.

its not a common problem with the pin at the bottom type mag, not likely to get another with the same problem.

can you post a pic of your problem?
 
If I had some ammunition I would.. I'm second guessing that the follower arm is bending as its pretty tough, I think the pin in the middle of the follower arm spring is becoming compressed.

I have thought of another way to block the magazine that wouldn't be so ugly and would be permanent, however your right I'll call them when I have time and let them know.
Hopefully they can send me just the internal magazine and I can install it myself, cause I'm not going to send the whole rifle back unless I'm driving up there, which won't be anytime soon.

The pin, btw, is almost completley concieled by the spring for the follower arm, in which a picture wouldn't do much justice.
 
yours doesnt sound like mine .

i dont know what yours look like so i cant help you . i may have heard of one other new sks owner having the same problem as yours .

heres mine.

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Mine had a broken mag when i bought it. You should only have to send them the mag, don't send back the whole rifle. They'll either fix it or send you a new one, and don't take no for an answer! In the meantime (hopefully not long), you still have a single shot rifle.
 
I have a friend who just bought one of the Norinco SKS from Milarm, and at first he was having problems with the firing pin not hitting the primers hard enough. I had to show him how to properly clean the cosmoline out of the bolt, and it worked fine after that. Then he was mad because it only accepted 4 rounds in the mag, but after putting about 50 rounds through it, it now accepts six!
Oh and his magazine does not have that pin to keep it from going down like yours does curtton. So I wonder if this is just a bad batch of rifles or something?
I have told him to take it back, but he seems to like the extra capacity for bump fires. It is his choice, I can't make him.
 
curtton said:
yours doesnt sound like mine .

i dont know what yours look like so i cant help you . i may have heard of one other new sks owner having the same problem as yours .

heres mine.

sksmag004Medium.jpg
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That pin was the idea that I was thinking of doing, but the pin in my rifle out of the box is in the middle of the spring for the follower. It is probably thin and is being 'peened' by the compression of the follower, thus allowing more than 5 rounds. I am defenitly getting 7 rounds in there, but not a single one more, I have taken the magazine out of the rifle and put it away just to be safe.
Anywho, I appreciate your responses, I'll call milarm hopefully this week.
 
If the serial numbers on the Magazine match the rest of the serial numbers on the rifle then I'd simply install a new pin.
 
A couple of solutions; build up the top of the pin with a dab of epoxy, or bend the "arm" above the pin slightly upwards. Chances are very good that your "arm" was bent downwards somehow and that is causing your problem in the first place. While the pins are there to limit your cartridge capacity to 5, you can make it more or less by messing with the arm. I had the same problem on my SKS after some use - suddenly if I pushed a little too hard I could get a tight 6 rounds in the mag. I chose to very slightly bend the arm up and to put several coats of Armacoat on the pin to build it up just a little. Works fine for me now.
 
I would think that either the follower arm is bending or the pin is off center or too thin and the follower arm is sliding down the side of it. If the later you could epoxy a bushing over the pin to make it thinker.

My Yugo SKS just has a piece of steel strapping bent in to an A shape and epoxied in to the bottom of the mag. That would be easy enough to do.
 
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