SKS Bayonet While Hunting
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Mumbles Marble Mouth
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The 7.62x39 is only comparable to the 30-30 up to 130gr bullets. Once you hit 150 and over, the .30-30 has a clear advantage over the 7.62x39.
Mumbles Marble Mouth
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- Lower Mainland
I've heard everything from "it will change your point of impact" to "it will make your gun more accurate" and every time I've tried it, it didn't change ####.
May be a shooter issue.
Bench vice it and try again.
It's well documented.
Have said that my first SKS came with the bayonet lug ground off and it printed the Czech surplus ammo in the black of the target at 100 yards no problem.
Two other SKSs I had shot very differently depending if their bayonets were folded or not.
This is his first time moose hunting with 7.62x39. So well see how it goes, he doesn't plan on shooting passed 100 yds so he's definitely playing it safe the first time around. He ended up picking up the 150 gr sp lead core Sellier & Bellot.
Brutus
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I can see one viable reason to have a sharp pointy object on the end of your SKS rifle.
Perhaps while hunting wild boar in the thick stuff and your magazine is empty..........with this rifle mounted tool, one could defend oneself, if you absolutely had too. It could buy you some time until you reloaded your rifle?
No, I don't have this carbine, and this is just my own theory fellas.
Perhaps while hunting wild boar in the thick stuff and your magazine is empty..........with this rifle mounted tool, one could defend oneself, if you absolutely had too. It could buy you some time until you reloaded your rifle?
No, I don't have this carbine, and this is just my own theory fellas.
On a side note...
The gun, the ammo (surplus) and the average shooter isn't really "good" enough shooting one off hand to give you any noticeable difference IMO. The gun is made for torso hits, nothing more.
Benched with good ammo and a peep sight then sure...but that is not how the gun was made nor its intended usage.
Pick up a copy of the hunting regs when you buy your license. It's free and has the answers to all life's mysteries inside. The hunting related ones anyway. As far as I'm aware, there's no issue with taking a knife into the woods, even if it's attached to a gun. Mine was easy to unscrew though, and shot fine without it. Please don't plan on bayoneting a deer as a finishing move though, that's just plain silly and cruel. Just put a shot through the vitals on the first try instead, if it's still kicking just put a mercy shot through it's noggin for ####'s sake. A few hunters get injured or killed every year trying to get in close and stick a wounded animal with a knife or some other such nonsense.
Not a personal attack on you radmacks, I'm just generalizing as it seems like some people are getting 'ideas'.
Mumbles Marble Mouth
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Lower Mainland
I shoot 1/2" - 3/4" 3 shot groups with my .270 with a scope, 1.5" - 2.5" 3 shot groups with my Lee Enfield with iron sights, 3" - 4" 5 shot groups with both of my SKS with iron sights, well bench rested. I'm a competent shooter. If putting the gun in a gun vice shows the bayonet changes the point of impact, but shows nothing when fired from a seasoned shooter, then it's such a minor difference that it doesn't matter. I wouldn't be surprised to find out, if fired from a vice, the extra pressure point at the tip of the barrel would slightly change the point of impact or even make it slightly more accurate. I've never noticed a difference with either of my SKS but have noticed a major difference with the Mosin Nagant.
I have read it page for page every year and read the entire act and it makes no mention.
