I tend to disagree,PP...if you put the SKS in a vice or something else not human related,then you might be right,because birchwood,(when cut to fit!) supports the action and frame more than some soft polymer,but circumstances given that a human holds the rifle and everybody being different,all those that have a "better feel" with an aftermarket stock will shoot better with one...I got lucky there,I'm a "short" guy,both applications work for me,and often It's the ammo why you're not accurate.
Do aftermarket stocks increase SKS accuracy?
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I tend to disagree,PP...if you put the SKS in a vice or something else not human related,then you might be right,because birchwood,(when cut to fit!) supports the action and frame more than some soft polymer,but circumstances given that a human holds the rifle and everybody being different,all those that have a "better feel" with an aftermarket stock will shoot better with one...I got lucky there,I'm a "short" guy,both applications work for me,and often It's the ammo why you're not accurate.
I've had both aftermarket (Tapco) and stock SKS', and just for the hell of it I took both to the range with surplus and Privi Partizan (hunting) ammo.
Both rifles shot to the same accuracy using the same type of ammo: roughly 4 MOA @100 yds with the surplus stuff, and roughly 2 to 2.5 MOA@100 yds with the Privi ammo. Iron sights were used.
It's the ammo you use that determines how accurate your SKS can be : and your shooting skills of course
Both rifles shot to the same accuracy using the same type of ammo: roughly 4 MOA @100 yds with the surplus stuff, and roughly 2 to 2.5 MOA@100 yds with the Privi ammo. Iron sights were used.
It's the ammo you use that determines how accurate your SKS can be : and your shooting skills of course
I bought a Choate stock a few years ago and found that it fit terribly on a Norinco SKS. After shooting a .150" gap would appear between the back of the receiver and the stock. It would not stay put at all. I tried bedding it but it did not seem to help much. Every time I filled a gap in the stock I found another. Aftermarket stocks are made to fit all different types of sks', Romanian, Chinese, Russian, Yugoslavian. They all have different tolerances and specifications. One size all fits everything but fits poorly. The best results (for accuracy) would be to bed the original, add a cheekpeice, change out the buttplate and contour the palmswell to fit your own hand.
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I did my SKS up in full Tapco. Didn't seem to make a difference in how it shot just how it looked. Turns out I prefer a wood stock............so all the Tapco stuff is in the EE
Many load their sks with new stock and stuff only to find that the sks become unnecessary heavy,then they end up for sale.... I bough a Tapco stock for my chinese sks but after having installed, didnt like the feeling at all so i never fired the rifle and put back the original stock and sold the Tapco on the EE. Simpler is better. My 2 cents
Jocelyn
Jocelyn
Any difference you notice will probably be due to the inherent accuracy of the individual rifles, not because of the stock.
I just tried to find that youtube video of the guy suggesting that the US military issue "accurized" SKS's to troops as a backup weapon for when they run out of ammo....he says in the video that the pistol grip on the stock makes the gun more accurate...it's a pretty funny video, but couldn't find it...
Travis Bickle
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I still think the #1 best trick to accurizing an SKS is to buy a rifle that was built and designed for accuracy in the first place.....
Travis Bickle
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Was that the one where the guy was loading his rifle in the house and going on about how when you are "far away from your FOB" and that the best solution for you when you run out of ammo for your C8 was to carry a second long rifle with foreign ammunition etc etc?
Man that guy was the biggest tool I have ever heard speak.
Wow I had the exact opposite experience with my choate stock. I guess our two sks are at the opposite end of the tollerance scale. I really like mine but I may take some off the LOP for CQB matches (I have T-rex arms).
wouldn't you just pick up an AK 47 or whatever gun from the dead enemy? you are gonna pack around an SKS in case you run out of ammo lol what if the enemy isn't using 7.62x39. now maybe if you had a good rifle ar platform with quick change uppers you could pack a 7.62x39 upper im pretty sure they have them for the robinson armaments xcr. not sure how all that works but that would make more sense than packing another whole rifle which you might never use. anyways i agree this man is an idiot lol
