Anyone have experience with RifleTech products?

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Dweano

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Hey guys. I don't have an SKS (yet) but I have been looking around for stuff to make it better (can't handle keeping things stock no matter what they are). I came across this stuff:

http://www.rifletech.net/cgi-bin/shop.pl/page=ultimatesks.html

Now my initial thought are kinda skeptical:

The stock sounds good...ish...couldn't the same thing be done with a Tapco stock? Stiffen it up and bed it somehow?

The gastube advertises to "stabilize harmonics"...im skeptical but it sounds good

The mags...whatever

Next thing of interest: The muzzle brake...advertises an 80% increase in accuracy! Now that is interesting...if it works...but once again I am skeptical...how can a muzzle brake increase accuracy by that much!

Just thought I would throw this up and see what people have to say. I searched rifletech and all that came up was bullpup sks...which I am not interested in

Thanks

Edit: I searched google (somehow this didn't occur to me before) and it seems pretty scammy...guess I'll leave this up here and see what people say
 
No offence at all, but those descriptions have snake oil written all over them:

1.) Shock Wave Break:

"Increases in accuracy as much as 80 % have been recorded !" :rolleyes:

"Multiple 10 to 15 shot groups remain completely stable with no flyers and group size
remains dramatically tight! Noise limits go unchanged with a dramatic increase in accuracy! " :rolleyes:

2.) SKS scope mount:

" SKS - Totally Incredible Scope and Mount System. This is not the cheap imported junk you sometime see in the market place that doesn't work - This is top of the line engineering at its best ! The most Dynamic
and User Friendly mount/optical system that money can buy for the SKS Rifle or Carbine ! An incredible design with astonishing performance!
Totally removable without upsetting zero! This is the mount/optical system you may have read about in American Rifleman or in other media including
books written by Duncan Long, Steve Kehaya, and Joe Poyer just to name a few!

Complete system maintains less than 1 minute of angle accuracy at 100 yards/meters. This allows shooter to maintain 1 inch accuracy at 100 yards/meters with just the right amount of optical power for fast and extremely accurate shooting. " :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:





The SKS is what it is. A robust battle rifle. Good for man sized targets.
What it isn't is a precision rifle platform. You will find a lot of people spend a lot of money trying to change the very nature of the SKS only to end up dissapointed, out of money, and trying to sell their failed frankenstiens on the EE (always asking too much money too :p)

That being said: Do what you want with your rifle and your money - but research the platform and understand the cost involved - and the likely hood of ruining the SKS.
 
LMFAO that is funny. "rubber bedded stocks" accuracy increasing brakes, bayo lug mounted bipods, dust cover mounts, all adding up to sub-moa accuracy? HA! Check out the gas tube mount, its a bolt-on mount that attaches to a flimsy stamped sheetmetal handguard. "All yours for an unbelievable $875" EPIC FAIL I feel so sorry for the poor souls who sent that huge stack of cash to these fools, modded the piss out of their SKS and found accuracy fell off the deep end
 
Haha...no offence taken. I was basically convinced it was snake oil from the start. I was more wondering about the concepts...changing the gas tube and muzzle brake...does that ever help an sks?
 
Dweano, go to SKSMan.com and order the lighter trigger springs, recoil buffer, and if you're not shooting corrosive ammo get the Murray's stainless firing pin with spring, for extra safety. Do the Sailor Curt trigger mod shown on Youtube in a five part video series, and install the new springs. The rubber recoil buffer reduces vibration when shooting and adds longevity to the spring. The Murray's firing pin with spring can be lighly lubed with G96 and guarantees no slam fires. The lighter, smoother trigger and a good cleaning with a copper solvent followed by a good gun cleaner will be the best things you can do for accuracy in your SKS, and all these parts are cheap. You want MOA, buy a good modern bolt action hunting rifle or glass bed an old Husqvarna Swedish Mauser into a Boyd's classic laminate stock, my 30.06 Husky shoots .5 MOA. My SKS, 4 MOA, lol, but it's just a "fun toy" carbine.
 
A properly designed brake can increase accuracy, but only by small increments, not 80%. To do that with no perceived noise increase is unlikely at best. The rest sounds like pure snake oil.


Mark
 
That's some funny sh^t, I wish I had found that earlier.

I wouldn't give them a dime man. It's an SKS, shoot it like an SKS.
 
hunterinthewoods said:
That is quite the advertisement.....wow.
But only $875!!! What a deal....
To the OP, the SKS is a cheap, tough battle rifle. Buy one and some surplus ammo and have fun!
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What he said.

Go buy a stock SKS, some ammo and head to the woods, (or range). You'll probably like it just the way it is. If not you can make all kinds of after market changes for way less the $875
 
pisces-guy said:
Dweano, go to SKSMan.com and order the lighter trigger springs, recoil buffer, and if you're not shooting corrosive ammo get the Murray's stainless firing pin with spring, for extra safety. Do the Sailor Curt trigger mod shown on Youtube in a five part video series, and install the new springs. The rubber recoil buffer reduces vibration when shooting and adds longevity to the spring. The Murray's firing pin with spring can be lighly lubed with G96 and guarantees no slam fires. The lighter, smoother trigger and a good cleaning with a copper solvent followed by a good gun cleaner will be the best things you can do for accuracy in your SKS, and all these parts are cheap. You want MOA, buy a good modern bolt action hunting rifle or glass bed an old Husqvarna Swedish Mauser into a Boyd's classic laminate stock, my 30.06 Husky shoots .5 MOA. My SKS, 4 MOA, lol, but it's just a "fun toy" carbine.
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Thanks man, that is helpful. Yes I know everyone always says SKS won't shoot MOA. I know this. I do not expect it. I am going to buy cheap (ish...going up tho) ammo and just have fun with it. But I figure if you can spend a couple bucks to make it shoot better and a bit more accurate for the rest of the rifles life...why wouldn't you? Thats what I think at least.
 
I put a bc tactical mount and vortex sparc on mine. Very fast target acquisition. It's all reversible. I spent about 300 dollars on the mount / optics and I've very happy with the results.

If you want better accuracy, buy some good ammo. The zombie stuff shrinks my groups to nice 2 inchers at 50 yards. With surplus, its acceptable at 4-5 inches (usually a little tighter with an occasional flyer) - not like the internet claims of sks's shooting 2moa at 100 yards all day with surplus and iron sights. I've seen a lot of sks's (including my own) and none have been capable of that kind of repeatable accuracy at 100 yards with surplus.
 
I have 2 real good bolt shooters, and now 2 SKS for a little fun in the sun. I am going to modify mine with a slip on pad, for a little LOP. I think they are bought for the fun factor and the nostelga. Save your money ont the mods, and buy ammo.
 
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