SKS NOT Inaccurate! RANGE REPORT!

As I, and others, have posted before, most of the "SKS's are innaccurate" stuff comes from shooting crappy milsurp ammo in the SKS.

I've got two chinese SKS's. With Yugo milsurp they shoot 3-4" at 100 yards. With handloads or quality factory ammo, they consistently shoot right around 1.5". At 50 yards, my one rifle with a Mojo rear sight, has shot several 3 shot groups I can easily cover with my thumbprint (again, using ammo that is not crap).

In regards to the dust cover type scope mounts, I've had mixed results. I have tried three (including the exact model in the OP). Two out of the three were basically useless on my rifles
(including the exact model in the OP). One however, came from the factory obviously oversized and required significant grinding and filing to make fit the rifle. It is now fitted so tight I have to use a heavy rubber hammer to pound it in place and also to pound the retaining pin into place. This is great, as this mount holds zero perfectly; if all reciever cover type mounts came oversized and had to be ground to fit super tight I think they would have a much better reputation. Having said that, if I was going to get serious about scoping an SKS however, I would fork out the extra cash and buy the D&T Choate SKS mount, for sure.
 
out of all the millions of sks's built , at least a few of them must be able to shoot ........

nice to see the op has found one .

if you can put 5 rounds onto a pie plate at 200 yards with a sks , your doing really really good .
 
I am very pleased with the number of responses here. Well done folks! I want to make mention, that while my post was intended to provide a range report, as well as help to increase the accuracy recognition of the SKS, it is not intended to say the SKS is by any means a sharp-shooter's rifle. The rifle was designed to be beaten, drenched in water, frozen in cold, boiled in heat and still function. It was designed to hit a man-sized target ANYWHERE at 200-300 yards maximum. The bullet has been proven to be highly ineffective against human targets, (deer, on the other hand, are another matter!), as to yaw and cause significant damage collaterally, there must be approx. 20-30cm of tissue penetrated before the bullet tumbles out of flightpath in the target. I do not know many men with chests more than 30 cm from front to back. All the same, the round, like the 9mm "Parabellum", was designed to maim, not kill it would seem. Or else, someone was sipping the midnight vodka when they designed the bullet!

My rifle happens to be highly accurate in the right conditions. To answer a recent post as well, by Northman999, the cover I received was not to size, and required grinding down to fit. It slides on fine, but requires some rubber-mallet coersion to get the rear pin to engage fully. A good, stable platform.

Last but not least: Gents. It's a fun carbine that has served it's time, paid it's dues, and still loves dirty ammo :) It was in the hands of Russians, Yugoslavians, Chinese, Vietnamese, and many other nations, and is STILL used to this day in less fortunate countries as a "cheap" alternative to the AK-47.

Enjoy your SKS, clean her well after a good day's shooting, and she will serve you for years.

Cheers,
Drachenblut
 
Nice shots. What kind of scope and mounts did you install? Does it still hold zero after a months or two worth of shooting?


I've got the sks/scope thing flagged for interest, but not totally convinced yet. As for ammo, you might want to look at some of the PRVI ammo for accuracy, its one or two steps up from surplus rounds.
 
Is it Accuracy or Luck?

That is a nice group that you shot. But is it true accuracy or a bit of luck involved as well. If you shot a 100 rounds at 20 targets,5 rounds each target over the course of a afternoon would you get the same results? Don't get me wrong I love the SKS for what it can do as a bush gun and I get good results on a fairly consistent basis with both open sights and optics. If I can put rounds on a piece of 8 1/2 X 11 computer paper at 25 to 200 meters I am happy and do not expect any more than that.
 
I really really hate calling bs on anything, but I have had a few sks's and never got close to that type of group. So I will just say grrreat group there bud, hope you can reproduce it on demand.
 
Must be noted that a scoped rifle can really show the accuracy potential. The iron on sks and on similar rifle are not the best to shoot at small target because they kinda block the view and for shooter wearing glasses(like me) its another factor. Some sks are more accurate than the others doesnt matter the condition,ofc the sks will never be a tatget rifle because was never intended to be, his role is to hit man sized target at 300m that's it. Its fun to see some rifle showing accuracy accounted the limitation of the hardware.....
 
I had my Chinese SKS out on the weekend and had pie-plate size groups at 100 yds. with iron sights. That was with the dirty surplus ammo. I was pretty happy with that.
Nice shooting Drach.
 
Gents, as I have said. I am not boasting of my shots, just saying it is a possibility. Will there be variance as time goes on, the day temps rise and fall, wind, shooter's condition, during an entire shooting day? Absolutely. No question of that. But, if I can hit a man size target at 300 yards, I am pleased. Even more accuracy, is welcome. It means a cleaner kill, come hunt season. :)
 
With the standard 7.62x39 load dropping down to about 900 foot pounds energy at 200 yards, that to me sounds like the max effective range for deer with the cartridge, but I still find it quite a challenge to get majority of the shots from an SKS onto a standard target (approx size of deer's vitals) at that distance. At present I could maybe do that with a CZ 858 from a table/deer stand, but the SKS will at least need more practice to get there.

Examples of surprisingly good performance out of some people's SKS's suggests that we shouldn't dismiss the possibility of surprising some of the SKS sceptics out there, but once again this calls for shooting these carbines with a bit more care than is usually the case, and keeping realistic about what we can expect. Maybe some quality scope mounts or peep sight options will help, as a 200m target looks awfully smal atop typical SKS sights.
 
Your thread title should have read:
MY SKS = NOT Inaccurate!! Range Report!! LOL

Nice shootin' Drach!

The closest I even came to those kind of results was with my Tula, as well. And they weren't of the same quality as yours. Mind you, I wasn't going for much more than "Minute-Of-Gopher" at 75yds, either. Anyhow, nice piece!
 
I found shimming my stock so it was tight to the receiver to help on my russian '53. As SKS's go mine was already pretty accurate this just gives a litttle extra.

I think there are some more "accurizing" threads or tips on here somewhere.
 
I own 3 sks ...Izzy 53 and 54... Tula 54 all refurb.. All i can say is my 3 rifles at 200 metres will shoot inside a pie plate 95% of the time with surplus ammo and open sight the 3 of them are set for the six o clock hold... I think that set up enhance the accuracy since you are not blocking your target... Give it a try you will see a difference... JP.
 
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