Chinese SKS quality hit or miss!?

vpsalin said:
So I received the chinese sks finally today. It had 5% of the cosmo that russian had so so far cleaning is a breeze. Some comrade somewhere did all the dirty work in my place Thk, go figure. It also came with what appears to be a fiberglass 'jungle' stock. I never even knew that these things existed before researching it today. That was a VERY cool surprise.

The receiver and barrel have great 90% blueing. I can't complain there at all. The bore looks very clean. The downside is some parts are very varied from pristine (trigger group) to pitted (main piston). I can't really complain at the price that I paid. Should a rifle still be serviceable with pitted piston?

It also has the needle bayonet, not the screw-driver spike I'm used to seeing. I'm not sure what to make out of that.
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Never heard of a needle bayonet. Can you post a picture?
 
It's not the screw-driver tip and it appears to be factory. I don't see signs of someone modding this into a pointy tip themselves.

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I bought a very nice Chinese ski off the EE for $250. The gas tube was super wobbly but I solved that by buying a new gas tube for $30. Shoots good enough for me. It shoots high right but I didn't expect accuracy from the gun with my eyes and iron sights past 100yrds anyways lol.
 
vpsalin said:
So I received the chinese sks finally today. It had 5% of the cosmo that russian had so so far cleaning is a breeze. Some comrade somewhere did all the dirty work in my place Thk, go figure. It also came with what appears to be a fiberglass 'jungle' stock. I never even knew that these things existed before researching it today. That was a VERY cool surprise.

The receiver and barrel have great 90% blueing. I can't complain there at all. The bore looks very clean. The downside is some parts are very varied from pristine (trigger group) to pitted (main piston). I can't really complain at the price that I paid. Should a rifle still be serviceable with pitted piston?

It also has the needle bayonet, not the screw-driver spike I'm used to seeing. I'm not sure what to make out of that.
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Nice, I think the fiber/plastic stocks are fairly rare! If The sides of the piston are ok then it show work ok, pitting on the face ( part that doesn't touch the gas tube) won't matter!
 
No I doubt anything matches. The stock is fiberglass and the gas tube is shellacked wood lol

...So did I just score a 1000$ SKS w:h:
 
I finally took out my new to me, Type 56 SKS to zero it's bushnell trs-25 red dot and to test the matador rear mount. I'm super pleased with results so far. Couldn't be happier from such an inexpensive rifle. It only took 9 shots to get perfectly zeroed at 100 yards (with 1 moa adjustment clicks!!!) just the way I like it with a 2 inch high zero on all my big game rifles and it was easy to achieve with the SKS. I managed to get a 1.8 inch group which was jaw dropping. The final 3.125 group had funny gun powder smoke that the other shots didn't have. I don't know if it was ammunition issue or not.

I'm tempted to try it on a deer hunt even though I own better rifles. I just want to prove to myself that it can be done. Really the best poor man's deer rifle when the right ammunition is used I'm sure.

For some strange reason I couldn't get the front post windage to move when using the AK-SKS sighting tool. I don't have this problem on another SKS. Could it be faulty or rusted in place or is my UTG sighting tool poor quality, it ended up bending on me and spreading apart in misalignment?

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The front sight drum can be ignorant to move.Bending the handle on the C clamp isn't unusual but they will move.Bayonet should be a blade screwdriver point.My son's [26 ] has a Russian style blade will a screwed in barrel cause the early one's were made on Soviet tooling.Should shoot claybird sized groups at 100 yards could be crappy ammo.
 
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