Sks trigger work

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Hi all

I have a Russian sks and I'm wondering is there anything I can do to it myself to make it a little more crisp. I've heard a lot of them are like this but mine has a very long creep with a fairly clumsy release at the end. I know I shouldn't expect too much for a rifle under 200 bucks out of a crate but I'm just looking for ideas.

I would like to either modify it myself or replace the trigger group altogether. Any suggestions?

Cheers
Cody.
 
sunray said:
Change the springs and polish all the mating parts, but you're trying to make a silk purse.
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Silk purse? Not following that one.

I get that the rifle was never intended to be an award winning piece of kit and world renowned for its accuracy, I was just looking for some DIY info on how to make some slight/ cheap improvements. I do appreciate all the input though.
 
Codygp said:
Silk purse? Not following that one.

I get that the rifle was never intended to be an award winning piece of kit and world renowned for its accuracy, I was just looking for some DIY info on how to make some slight/ cheap improvements. I do appreciate all the input though.
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The complete expression is "trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" .
 
Well, it's not only the Chinese sears that give problems with creep. I picked up one of the prettiest laminated stock models the was a refurb. It was cheap and pretty. The trigger wouldn't allow the sear to disengage. I pulled it apart and there was no angle on the sear at all. Just a relatively rough, unfitted piece of metal. Used similar tools to those in the video to reshape the end and polish the engagement surface and all was well.

The fellow that did the demonstration in that video, did a great job and stressed the caveat about over heating the metal.
 
cyclops666 said:
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I've watched several videos and have done many trigger jobs on various guns and I highly recommend this video. It provides excellent info on how to remove the over-travel and to reduce the pound pull.. you would never know it's an sks.
 
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cdncowboy said:
I've watched several videos and have done many trigger jobs on various guns and I highly recommend this video. It provides excellent info on how to remove the over-travel out and to reduce the pound pull.. you would never know it's an sks.
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Sorry have to disagree with you. Anybody that takes any type of powered grinder to a sear is a hack. Follow ht tp://sailorcurt.com/category/sks/
 
Make sure you just polish and dont sand or file. You dont want to remove material you just want to shine and smothe what is already there. The problems come in when removing material you may make the surfaces not mate properly after.
 
The problem with that YouTube vid is he doesn't address the hammer hooks or positive engagement in the sear. The negative engagement is bad and he thinks it's fine.
Grinding sears is a big no-no and slam-fires can and will happen. The sailor-kurt method is still better.
 
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