Deer killing gun...sks?

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100 yards, bone stock sks, Federal blue box 123 grain soft points. Dropped like she was beaned with a 10 pound sledge.

Go for it! Just keep things close.
 
BigTree1 said:
Hey guys! For Christmas the wife got me a russian sks with a Tapco t6 stock. I was hoping to be able to use it as a "fun gun" but also use it as a 150yard and less deer rifle. I spent some time reading up here and I see lots and lots of people saying how in-accurate the sks really is. Should I re-consider using it as a deer rifle? I was planning on a BC Tactical scope mount, and maybe an NC star Tac scope? Am I setting myself up for failure here? Im hoping if I keep it close range it shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for the space and time guys.
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The 30-30 is well known as a deer cartridge within 150-200 yds, and the 7.62x39 cartridge is not so much different. I would avoid the NC Star scope myself, they are not worth the effort. Look at Bushnell for economy-priced optics if you can. Almost anything will be better than NC Star.
 
For those kinds of distances, meaning no further than 100m, I'd be looking for a peep sight for the rear, rather than some fancy optical sight. Or a red dot...but even that's unessisarily expensive for sub-100m shots. A cleaned up trigger, maybe a fibre optic red front sight post, should be plenty to take deer at modest distances.
 
i think when most people say an SKS has bad accuracy, it can mostly be attributed to the sights. In particular the wide cut out in the rear leaf sight. It's hard to properly center the front sight post with so much space on either side to shoot accurately but once you get used to it and figure out where to hold the accuracy in an SKS isnt actually that bad. I've recently started setting up clay pidgeons at 100m and i can nail them with my stock 53 tula fairly consistently. given that i'm a fairly new shooter, with the right sights and practice i'm sure you'd be able to reach the deer up to 200 maybe. i wouldnt try beyond that though.
 
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The problem is people assume the SKS they just bought is set up and ready to go, like a Remington 700 or something like that.

It does not work that way in the real world.

After sitting around in depots for (?) years, or decades, the stocks are dried out. The bedding has to be sorted out and the trigger has to be sorted out. I have a fine front post for my SKS, if the bedding and trigger are sorted out, the coarse front post might be superior for bush whacking - ymmv.

Of course I have never taken a deer or any other big game in my life, all my observations are from range use.
 
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