Couldn't resist the urge to go shoot it again, so I did another test the following day. This time i had no coffee and brought my shooting rest. Also drilled out the gas tube vents to the original size. I welded the factory ones shut and relocated them an 1" or more forward so the wood wouldn't get damaged . Now its ejection is satisfactory, 5ft to 3 o clock. The gun may suffer slightly from cold bore imprecision but its not too noticeable. Possibly 3" high from the subsequent group. Hard to test these things cus the barrel in summer conditions takes what seems like forever to cool to cold bore status. Thankfully once the barrel is warmed up the gun seems to pattern respectfully consistent for an SKS rifle shooting .25c rounds. The pictured target is the warm bore groupings. Barrel temp ranged anywhere from comfortably warm to have to let go after 3 seconds for these shots.


