sks reliability
- Thread starter Robert_Yeomans
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If your willing to try and kill yourself with a severily fouled firearm go ahead. I have seen first hand a rifle with packed mud in the barrel. It exploded and mushroomed back like a bugs bunny cartoon, causing serious injury to a buddy of mine.
If you get your firearm full of mud and water- Clean It!!!
If you get your firearm full of mud and water- Clean It!!!
burnt_servo
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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firing it dirty , very very dirty , should be no problem
full of mud , in a non life and death situation might create a life or death situation
full of mud , in a non life and death situation might create a life or death situation
easyrider604
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Greater Vancouver, BC
burnt_servo
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- right in the middle of b.c.
In all probability, it will be a "death" situation
you know , the sks's are cheap enough ....... maybe we should take a collection and one lucky person gets to go buy a sks fill it with ammo and mud and video tape it being fired from a safe location ....
Supply me an SKS and I'll do it....
On second thought send me a couple, I'll do some real torture testing and film it for everyone to see.
2ndShotCanada
CGN Regular
The main reason for the AK reliability is simplicity. The SKS is even more simple and has very loose tolerances so it would probably be just as good as the AK in a torture test. I wouldn't recommend filling the barrel with anything tightly packed though cuz you never know.
We bring one along with us as a quad gun. It is exposed to rain and mud.
Have operated it when the action had been in the rain for hours, including some minor splashes of mud on it. (none in the barrel though)
Never had any problems.
They work great as a quad gun. Cheap to buy, so you dont care when it gets full of mud and water, or bent in a roll over. Fun and cheap to shoot, great while stopped for a break. Has all the tools needed to strip and clean it in the event the barrel is plugged.
Have operated it when the action had been in the rain for hours, including some minor splashes of mud on it. (none in the barrel though)
Never had any problems.
They work great as a quad gun. Cheap to buy, so you dont care when it gets full of mud and water, or bent in a roll over. Fun and cheap to shoot, great while stopped for a break. Has all the tools needed to strip and clean it in the event the barrel is plugged.
One of mine hasn't left the truck in years. slung behind the seat just in case. exposed to whatever conditions the inside of a truck get. Cold outside, warm, moist air once heated up. Still shoots to 4" and that'll do for what I use it for. Can't hurt it!! And even if you did, just get another.
Interesting thoughts: I recently read some articles about helmets, safety belts, and roll bars. I'm actually fairly comfortable with the testing that went on when they say "its safer than..." I don't feel a need to test these for myself.
Its a common consensus that the SKS is a reliable action in all conditions. I find this as well, but have not needed to dunk it in the mud to find out. I'll just take their word for it
Its a common consensus that the SKS is a reliable action in all conditions. I find this as well, but have not needed to dunk it in the mud to find out. I'll just take their word for it
burnt_servo
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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it may be possible for the rear of the bolt to not fully seat into the frame , and the hammer able to drop onto the firing pin , firing off the round .
i know this because the trigger assembly on mine wore out , and was able to do this when it was dry fired ...... i mean really really wore out . it would also fire multiple rounds unintentionally ( but that is another story ) .
burnt_servo
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- right in the middle of b.c.
So whats the story burnt servo? Sounds like a good one.
if you cycled the bolt with a full mag , sometimes the hammer would drop just from the force of the bolt stopping up against the barrel .
it would some times empty the mag before it stopped ( which took like 1/2 a second ) and if you where not expecting it it would jump out of your hands .
if the barrel wasn't pointed in a safe direction , who knows what could have happened .
it did this a couple times , then got taken apart and stored up until recently ( i got a new trigger assembly
)if you cycled the bolt with a full mag , sometimes the hammer would drop just from the force of the bolt stopping up against the barrel .
it would some times empty the mag before it stopped ( which took like 1/2 a second ) and if you where not expecting it it would jump out of your hands .
if the barrel wasn't pointed in a safe direction , who knows what could have happened .
it did this a couple times , then got taken apart and stored up until recently ( i got a new trigger assembly
that almost sounds like a slam fire with brass civy-case ammo, not mil-surp.
burnt_servo
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- right in the middle of b.c.
that is what i thought it was a first , that is why i tried it out a few times trying to figure it out .
most of the ammo i used in it was either steel cased norinco , or my own handloads .
i never tried my handloads with the multiple firings , just the norinco stuff .
you could pull the action back, and let it slam closed " dry " ( no round) and find that as the bolt slammed shut , it caused the hammer to drop on the firing pin .... meaning that nothing happened when you pulled the trigger , because the hammer had already dropped ( no sounds of the hammer falling ... aka "click" )
with that said , i recently got a new trigger assembly and it acts normally once again .
easyrider604
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Greater Vancouver, BC
burnt servo,
just curious, how many rounds did it take to wear out your trigger assembly?
just curious, how many rounds did it take to wear out your trigger assembly?
