Chopping SKS barrel?

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Hey all,

Any one out there chop and chrome lined SKS barrel down all the way ? I mean just before it reaches restricted version of course......

I know the hard chrome on the SKS wont flake off......Just curious if any one has done it / What do you do for a crown?


Thanks
 
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If you're chopping a barrel, the limit is 18-1/2 inches. Best to leave it at 19 in case The Man arrives with one of those tape measures with the first quarter-inch accidentally missing.

The thing is only 20 to start with.

What's the point?
 
from my experience workin in a machine shop crome isnt gonna be easy to cut through ull need an abbrasive cutting disk like a chop saw or such if its the smae kinda crome used in like hydraulic cylinders and such. also if u heat crome it lossses hardness or its resistance to waer cutting. so if u cut the barrel make sure u dont get it hot. thats how u machine te end of a crome shaft u heat the area tell its blue then machine it hope this helps. ps seriously man i wouldnt bother but to each is to own
 
seems kinda pointless to me, just to remove what, an inch? PLus, they balance best the way they are. I find mine shoots better freehand with the bayonet extended, shifting the centre of balance even FURTHER foreward. Also, mine is totally non crowned, as in, the muzzle is cut off perfectly straight at 20 inches. Shoots good as is :)
 
Like mentioned above cutting to 16" will make your rifle prohibited. You can cut the barrel to 18.5" but you will also need to have the barrel re-crowned to achieve proper accuracy.
 
Hello guys,

Just chopped my barrel to 12 inches......and she shoots better then before.
LOL

No I didn't cut it, and I didn't know 16" was prohibited - 18.5 is the cut off eh. Good to know.......Hence why I put out the "chopping the sks barrel idea"

I have no lathe or mill and I planned to use a copper tubing cutter and my cold chisel
*smirk*


I thought restricted rifle had a OAL of 26" folded or not from end to end. Correct?


thanks
 
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I cut down a Chinese sks I had, in a tapco stock when I bought it. Cut it to 18 5/8", used the lathe. It was a fair bit of work, and have to say it shot pretty much exactly as before. The shortened barrel did little to improve it's handling, but it did look cooler... I mostly did it or sh!ts and giggles.

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Robin
 
VooDooMan said:
Hello guys,

Just chopped my barrel to 12 inches......and she shoots better then before.
LOL

No I didn't cut it, and I didn't know 16" was prohibited - 18.5 is the cut off eh. Good to know.......Hence why I put out the "chopping the sks barrel idea"

I have no lathe or mill and I planned to use a copper tubing cutter and my cold chisel
*smirk*


I thought restricted rifle had a OAL of 26" folded or not from end to end. Correct?


thanks
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A trader rating of 30 and you don't know #### about gun laws in Canada?
 
Last crown job I did was on a 1918 SMLE which had been abused something terrible. It didn't shoot worth beans because of this ugly pit, right at the muzzle.

I used an electric hand drill and a half-inch diameter spherical ceramic stone, diamond-impregnated, to move the crown DOWN in the barrel about 40 thou, just until that blasted PIT was gone. Rifle shot a LOT better.

I would think a diamond-ceramic stone would be the best way to crown something as hard as a hard-chrome liner, given that the job was necessary.

The job is not necessary if all it's gonna get you is a lifetime firearms ban and 3 years of eating prison food. If it was just MURDER, now, your lawyer might be able to get you off with probation, but we're talking about Canadian FIREARMS Law here!

Be safe, friend. My SKS shoots just fine the way it was made.
 
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