Chinease sks practical accuracy 500 yards

I never had issues out to 300m... gets tricky shooting the rainbow rounds especialy with any wind past that with the old "cone of fire". Never sure if a miss was because you pulled it, the ammo was short or long, or the gun let you down.
 
gandalfe said:
I would blame the owners not the gun.Chinese SKS's are as accurate as they get for these Siminovs.
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Although this video is made by a guy who seems fairly decent a shooting. The gun is not his, after realising it shoots right im not sure why they didn't adjust the windage... As for the vertical stringing... It is what it is. Possibly operator endued possibly the ammo.
 
LordEvilPepper said:
I never had issues out to 300m... gets tricky shooting the rainbow rounds especialy with any wind past that with the old "cone of fire". Never sure if a miss was because you pulled it, the ammo was short or long, or the gun let you down.
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Same, Iron sights I can slap steel at 300 all day.
 
I find the Russian SKSs to have better machining quality, fit, finish ect. The Chinese ones seems to shoot better though. Of course it is always a bit of a toss up when it comes to them. They are great rifles though. Well worth the $200 bucks or so they were for a long time.

Only issue I have is I need a slip on recoil pad to extend the laughably short LOP.
 
Cant wait to bed my SKS this summer! I think for securing the front ferrule im going to follow the same procedure M1A guys do. Demonstrated very well in Tonyben3s video series.
 
cam1936 said:
I find the Russian SKSs to have better machining quality, fit, finish ect. The Chinese ones seems to shoot better though. Of course it is always a bit of a toss up when it comes to them. They are great rifles though. Well worth the $200 bucks or so they were for a long time.

Only issue I have is I need a slip on recoil pad to extend the laughably short LOP.
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Have you got one of the ones that has a new barrel on it from 2015? They shoot awesome!
 
Over the years, I've owned 3 Russian SKS, 4 Chinese, and one Czech VZ52 just to throw in a wild card. Of the Chinese I had two military SKS, one that was questionable if it was military or commercial, and one that was commercial. Out of all the SKS I owned, the one that shot the best was the commercial Chinese SKS. The one that felt like the best quality machining was a 1950 SKS with return spring firing pin and non-chrome lined barrel however that gun was also the most unreliable as it stove piped live ammunition but it also had the best trigger I ever felt on an SKS. The current owner of it still has the same issues. By far, out of the entire group, the Czech Vz 52 was the best in every single department except disassembly and cleaning. The Vz 52 makes the SKS like a piece of ####.
 
cam1936 said:
I find the Russian SKSs to have better machining quality, fit, finish ect. The Chinese ones seems to shoot better though. Of course it is always a bit of a toss up when it comes to them. They are great rifles though. Well worth the $200 bucks or so they were for a long time.

Only issue I have is I need a slip on recoil pad to extend the laughably short LOP.
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Most of the Chinese SKS have a stamped trigger group and barrels are pinned. The Russian SKS have machined trigger group and threaded barrels.
 
I have owned 13 to 15 SKS's... two I bought for friends, so technically 13.

11 Russians (non-refurbished in excellent or better condition, or all-matching mild refurbs with replacement stocks and/or blued bayonets mostly** in excellent or better condition:
1949 Tula laminate stock refurb
1950 Tula hardwood, black bayonet refurb <---- **only ugly SKS I have ever owned
1951 Tula non-refurb (probably unissued)
1952 Tula laminate refurb
1952 Tula non-refurb (probably unissued)
1953 Tula hardwood refurb
1953 Izhevsk laminate refurb
1953 Izhevsk non-refurb (probably unissued) **major unicorn in mint condition** <--- worth $1200-1500 in today's prices, no problem
1954 Tula laminate refurb
1954 Tula Izh 2008 import non-refurb in excellent condition
1955 Tula non-refurb (probably unissued)

and 2 Chinese military, all matching in excellent unissued condition.

I have put over 12,000 rounds through many of them (all grades from cheap corrosive to higher end commercial)... you can say that I enjoyed them fully!

the most accurate? My ugly-a$$ 1950 Tula refurb. Close second was my non-refurbished Izh 2008 import 1954 Tula. My 1949 with a nearly fully worn bore was also VERY accurate.

The least accurate was the 1953 Izzy refurb and BOTH Chinese military SKS's via Marstar.
 
cam1936 said:
I find the Russian SKSs to have better machining quality, fit, finish ect. The Chinese ones seems to shoot better though. Of course it is always a bit of a toss up when it comes to them. They are great rifles though. Well worth the $200 bucks or so they were for a long time.

Only issue I have is I need a slip on recoil pad to extend the laughably short LOP.
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I put one on mine; made a heck of a difference.
 
Mumbles Marble Mouth said:
Over the years, I've owned 3 Russian SKS, 4 Chinese, and one Czech VZ52 just to throw in a wild card. Of the Chinese I had two military SKS, one that was questionable if it was military or commercial, and one that was commercial. Out of all the SKS I owned, the one that shot the best was the commercial Chinese SKS. The one that felt like the best quality machining was a 1950 SKS with return spring firing pin and non-chrome lined barrel however that gun was also the most unreliable as it stove piped live ammunition but it also had the best trigger I ever felt on an SKS. The current owner of it still has the same issues. By far, out of the entire group, the Czech Vz 52 was the best in every single department except disassembly and cleaning. The Vz 52 makes the SKS like a piece of ####.
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I think ive owned 2 birch, 2 or 3 laminate and Chinese one over the years.
The Chinese one was a POS with feed issues and miss fitting parts, had to drop in a tapco mag and attack it with a file to get the damn thing to work.

Best shooting one was a 1949 non refurb that was about 2.5 moa all day long with Czech ammo. I shot so many rounds through it, but it was a crate of chinese copper wash that did it in. By the end of the create the last 5 inches of bore were smooth, the first 5 pitted, and there was about 1/2 play in the stock receiver matchup. That early chincom ammo was basically steel on steel coming out the barrel (at leaste the cases i bought the copper wash on the projectiles could be rubbed off by hand) i remember seeing sparks when viewed from the side of the gun, it was unreal. So corrosive it was already pitting parts within hours. I left the range at 3pm, got home at 5 and my barrel and gas tube were entirely orange lol...


The birch stocks look nicer but the laminates ones make better shooters.
 
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