LEGAL 10 round SKS with detachable mag...accomplished!..

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So....i can just see you there, rolling your eyes and cracking your knuckles ready to chew out a newbie for ONCE AGAIN asking the same damn thing....

well, not exactly....

watch the video....and wipe the drool...


i know another gentleman has grafted an XCR-L mag to an SKS. Saw the video, but that was not removable. As far as i could see all he could do was use the stripper clips to feed the mag. To me, thats kinda a grey area. If a mag is not removable then its no longer an XCR-L mag but a permanent attachment to the firearm.

anywho, comments are welcome....and i'm sure i'll be called a "bubba" a few times....:stirthepot2:

RANGE REPORT!!


works great!
 
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Very nice! Thanks for posting this! So you ended up going with a magwell adapter. Probably the optimal solution if not so doable for many of us. You can probably make a few bucks selling those. MD's solution was removable, without tools or stripping, just not as easily as yours. That's what I'm currently working on and went with a similar idea - using an AR mag catch that I recently got from Brownells. Put that project on the backburner for a while but will be coming back to it over the holidays.
 
HOW MUCH I MUST HAVE ONE! Hopefully you are set up for a small production run of this amazing thing.

Do you have to do some milling to the sks so it works?
 
Thanks for the encouragement.

To answer some questions. Yes, machining the receiver is mandatory to allow the mag to sit high enough so the bottom of the bolt will catch the round. The bolt has to be machined so it will slide in between the mag lips. The trigger groups fwd ears need to be trimmed back and the bolt hold open catch has to be reworked. Of ofcourse the stock mag hole has to be widened and extended and the mag release channel cut

The hard part was trial and error. The constant remove and trim and figuring the correct angle for the mag. It may look like it's sitting on a 90 to the receiver but it's not.

I was contemplating doing a few of these. My friend is already lined up. Cost wise I'm definitely not gonna get rich of this as the time invested would make the cost astronomical if shop hours are used.

In The end if a manufacturer wants to be involved something like the vz58 magwell adapter can be manufactured on scale. The receiver is also needed to be modified

I was thinking of buying a few refurbished no matching Sks's and selling them modified with the adapter.

PS to hobby machinists like me. Don't even bother with HSS end bits on the receiver and bolt. It mangles them
 
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