Well, Red Green always said "if it ain't broke, you're not trying"
Perhaps a considerate amount of the handyman's secret weapon could fix it?
WTF?!? Is anyone elses SKS bent?!?
- Thread starter supernova
- Start date
Well, Red Green always said "if it ain't broke, you're not trying"
Perhaps a considerate amount of the handyman's secret weapon could fix it?
- Location
- 42 Band of Eight Central
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I'm with you, but from a political standpoint. I hate supporting the country that will one day rule us if we keep up down the walmart philosophy of life.
I wouldnt bother owning much of anything if I lived by this principle. The hook style cocking handle was done simply cause I was bored and wanted to mod something. MG4201, I know many a solution to this problem and have been working on it. I dont own a machine shop, aside from a cheap drill press, a few angle grinders and a whole lot of hand tools. If I want it scoped bad enough, it shall be scoped. I'm currently filing it to line POA of the irons up with POA of the crosshairs at about 10 feet using a fixed point of aim on the wall. The scopes adjustments are centered, so once I file enough to bring the crosshairs back to center, we're all good. You think a bent reciever will stop me? BAHAHA! I'll post pics when its done. BTW its not an off-the-shelf SKS scope mount, its a $20 Ebay sourced wideview see-under mount for a mossberg 500 that just happens to fit perfectly.
Actually, have you run a set of calipers on the wall thickness of the receiver? - looking at it closely it could be that someone thinned the sidewall trying to grind something off the outside, or "polished" it with a grinding stone.
Written on a computer that was made in China, while looking through glasses whose frames were made in China, while wearing clothes that were made in Bangladesh and brought to Canada on a ship that was made in China, owned by the Chinese and crewed by....Chinese. Don't you think it's time to add a little perspective, otherwise you could drive down to the local store (in a car that has 47% of it's parts made in China) and spend thousands of hours (which you could track on your made in China watch) looking for stuff still made in North America - but then you'd find that the materials your North American made thing is made out of were processed in China.
I'll try it just cause you mention it but there are no grinding marks and all the bluing (exept the bolt carrier and ejection window) looks factory original. I dont see why someone would do this though as the rest of the rifle is rough in some spots too.
And good one, some people just dont get it! They will buy tons of cheap crap with "made in china" stickers all over them, but engrave "made in china" in a gun or car/truck and its JUNK! I called my rifle junk comparing it to my other sks, also made in china, and russian SKS's. I still like it and it works great, the quality just doesnt match the other rifles. Thats why its all modded shamelessly, thats why it will be scoped. Even if its the crosseyed special needs little brother of SKS's, I still love it!
It's an SKS-D, which means at one time someone probably shoved it in a vice and torqued it down before milling metal so an AK mag can fit. I suspect that's when this could have happened...Just a guess though.
I have an early 1950's Chinese Military issue and my wife has a late 1980's Chinese commercial and neither have bent receivers.
Mind you it doesn't look that bad and I'm sure someone in a metal shop with the know how and a break press could bend that edge straight again...or you could just shoot it and enjoy it as is if it's not binding the bolt during use.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Well, sitting from my perspective.
My work computer, I have no say over. My Macbook pro, designed in USA, indeed assembled in China as there are no other options. My clothes are English, South African, and Canadian manufacture- by choice. No glasses. My watch is German, mechanical, all parts made in Germany. My truck is a Dodge Cummins, American, with some small Asian electronics components, and about 6,500lbs of American and Canadian steel and iron manufactured parts. My guns are all English, American, Canadian, German, and Czech.
You can live, better actually, without selling out to Chinese goods. It just takes choices, just like choosing to vote: One vote does make a difference, one purchase makes even more of a difference. Your logic is pathetic, all but saying we have no choice, might as well be a sheep and follow the pack, 'everything's Chinese, get used to it.' mentality. That's plain wrong. We can't implement trade barriers, politically, as it hurts our own exports. We CAN choice to avoid Chinese junk as far as possible. My family does.
/end my hijack, apologies to the OP.
the irony of you typing this on a chinese assembled computer.
there is far more asian components in your truck then you think and about that 6500 lbs of steel , steel is a commodity , US dont produce much iron ore so american steel companies has to buy steel from foreign companies, btw, one american steel company that supplies to detroit is partly own by the japanese.
so much for ya "6,500lbs of American and Canadian steel" . welcome to the new millennium.
im glad you believe you live better with your belief but please dont tell us that we can live better cos im doing great with buying chinese products. thanks.
now lets get back on track.
Last edited:
Struff55 and Ardent obviously know guns, and about life, I don't know Ardent but I do know Struff55, and he knows his stuff, has an awful lot of years in the business. He has this obsession with Win. Md. 12 which is kinda scary, but he knows his stuff!!!!!!!
Warning: Rant Follows
I hate to tell you about your Dodge truck, as I do respect your opinion, but it's not that long since Chrysler Corp was found to be using more than 47% Chinese/Malaysian/Korean parts in the majority of it's vehicles and ordered by the US Gov to correct the issue or change their labelling to "Assembled in the US". I have no problem when people decide not to buy something because it's made in China (a stand on principal- I won't buy that because it's made in China, could be good could be bad, I'll never know). I also have no problem when people have had bad experiences with a product and won't touch it again (CGN Nelly hates Norcs, but he had 2 that failed on him - so that is reasonable), but it really p*sses me off when someone who has never tried a product labels it "junk" because of where it's made, and implies that it will be defective or unuseable based on it's origin, and pretends to know something that others don't. This, especially in the face of the vast majority of users actual experience with the product. I guess I get angry at it because really what those individuals are doing is lying, and attempting to hide behind the idea that they have some form of moral superiority or unique knowledge that makes their lies OK. In the end what they have is bullsh*t.
End of rant
I hate to tell you about your Dodge truck, as I do respect your opinion, but it's not that long since Chrysler Corp was found to be using more than 47% Chinese/Malaysian/Korean parts in the majority of it's vehicles and ordered by the US Gov to correct the issue or change their labelling to "Assembled in the US". I have no problem when people decide not to buy something because it's made in China (a stand on principal- I won't buy that because it's made in China, could be good could be bad, I'll never know). I also have no problem when people have had bad experiences with a product and won't touch it again (CGN Nelly hates Norcs, but he had 2 that failed on him - so that is reasonable), but it really p*sses me off when someone who has never tried a product labels it "junk" because of where it's made, and implies that it will be defective or unuseable based on it's origin, and pretends to know something that others don't. This, especially in the face of the vast majority of users actual experience with the product. I guess I get angry at it because really what those individuals are doing is lying, and attempting to hide behind the idea that they have some form of moral superiority or unique knowledge that makes their lies OK. In the end what they have is bullsh*t.
End of rant
Last edited:
Lets be clear, no one is questioning non-chinese made stuff. A few of us just believe they can match and sometimes exceed north american and european products. Not all, just some stuff. They can make stuff super cheaply with their work force, and thats where your "junk" comes from. But when the Doc says he can make an M-305 run with the best M1A's, I gotta believe him. I dont make a ton of cash to spend on real deal products, and dont have the heart to bubba a collector piece. Enter Chinese Junk! But anyways, the plan is: Sight factory irons back in (been using a scout mounted red dot), file down the high spot on the side of the reciever and smooth it out, make it as flat as possible. Then using the gun cradle, set the irons at a specific POA on the wall and slowly file the scope mount to bring the crosshairs back to center. Done deal. When its done, it should be exactly what I want. Full size 3-9x40 Leupold VX-1 gloss mounted high enough to not obstruct the factory irons and low enough to get a decent cheek (jaw) weld. The scope suits the rifle beautifully, has kind of a vintage sniper look with modern performance. And no russian beauties were harmed in the making of this rifle!
And some incredibly low-quality pics taken with my "made in china" phone!
And some incredibly low-quality pics taken with my "made in china" phone!
Last edited:
- Location
- 42 Band of Eight Central
I had a ditz nearby with one of those "out of a job yet" bumper stickers.. on her Focus.. and she could not get it through her thick skull her car was made in Mexico.
A friend of a friend here swore he'd never use anything foreign in his car... so I told him to remove all of the foreign parts from his mustang. After explaining what parts would be gone he decided he would never have a working car again ever.. (if you can call a crustang a working car for that matter lol)
A friend of a friend here swore he'd never use anything foreign in his car... so I told him to remove all of the foreign parts from his mustang. After explaining what parts would be gone he decided he would never have a working car again ever.. (if you can call a crustang a working car for that matter lol)
Supernova...
Pics are fine. Looks good.
Next: need a range report.
Yeah, that's right... I'm tell'n ya to go shoot the thing or, to steal someone else's saying, your #### WILL fall off (or ovaries fall out, to be gender neutral).
Pics are fine. Looks good.
Next: need a range report.
Yeah, that's right... I'm tell'n ya to go shoot the thing or, to steal someone else's saying, your #### WILL fall off (or ovaries fall out, to be gender neutral).
BAHAHA! thanks Aniest, thats exactly what I need to hear right now. Ive spent more time modding this thing than shooting it. Heavy gunfire is planned for sunday, tomorrow Ill be working on a mobile shooting bench to fit in the box of my truck.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Curtton, it would have ended there, however you twisted and edited out everything from my post you didn't want to address, so here it is again, unaltered. I can only chuckle at the Mac and truck components. Where did the money go from the purchase of my Dodge? I'm going to take a really wild guess and say the vast majority stayed in the west. It was even put together by guys who speak our language, have family and political structures we would recognize, and a mortgage. When we buy, we vote, that simple. Our purchasing is even more powerful than our voting. It's just as simple as keeping as much of our money in the west as possible. It's not like we don't have options in the west for our sport. Back to topic, and again, apologies to the OP. This ought to be the end as there's little to argue on this, any arguments for buying Chinese guns are inevitably of the 'everyone else is doing it with their (insert device: PC, Watch, etc) and can't afford western' strain. Heard them before, some just don't seem to care. Wrong forum for purchasing scrupples, I need to remember.
Let's just leave it at, we buy, we vote.
Let's just leave it at, we buy, we vote.
Well, sitting from my perspective.
My work computer, I have no say over. My Macbook pro, designed in USA, indeed assembled in China as there are no other options. My clothes are English, South African, and Canadian manufacture- by choice. No glasses. My watch is German, mechanical, all parts made in Germany. My truck is a Dodge Cummins, American, with some small Asian electronics components, and about 6,500lbs of American and Canadian steel and iron manufactured parts. My guns are all English, American, Canadian, German, and Czech.
You can live, better actually, without selling out to Chinese goods. It just takes choices, just like choosing to vote: One vote does make a difference, one purchase makes even more of a difference. Your logic is pathetic, all but saying we have no choice, might as well be a sheep and follow the pack, 'everything's Chinese, get used to it.' mentality. That's plain wrong. We can't implement trade barriers, politically, as it hurts our own exports. We CAN choice to avoid Chinese junk as far as possible. My family does.
/end my hijack, apologies to the OP.
Keep it and shoot it as it is. Don't mount a scope unless you really want to make it worthless - 95% chance scope alignment with bore will be a can of worms, so don't even attempt it.
It shoots well with the irons. Live with it or sell it.
It is what it is. Somebody messed it up, maybe factory, maybe not. Doesn't matter unless it's a warranty claim, which it isn't.
Look at it as a learning experience - now you know how important it is to do a thorough inspection when you're buying used guns.
It shoots well with the irons. Live with it or sell it.
It is what it is. Somebody messed it up, maybe factory, maybe not. Doesn't matter unless it's a warranty claim, which it isn't.
Look at it as a learning experience - now you know how important it is to do a thorough inspection when you're buying used guns.
