Finally bough a SKS

Decent rifle for the money! And yes, they're simple. They're designed to be shoved into the hands of a russian farmer/conscript with no training. You can throw in in the mud, drop it in the lake, run over it with your truck, and it'll still work fine :) Make sure you put it in a synthetic stock, grind and weld the reciever to take aftermarket mags, and grind the bayonet lug off so that someday mine will be wotrh more :) (just kidding!)
 
Done.
Stripped down to everything I could possibly remove, cleaned with TSP, scrubbed, dried and reassembled.
Too dark to shoot now, but tomorrow when the sun comes up I will rattle off the 40 rounds that I bought.
Cleaning out that storage grease sucked, lots of work and I had the kitchen tied up for quite a while.
Oiling? Do I lightly oil the parts like I would any other gun? I ask because when I oiled the firing pin it would not rattle, so I wiped it clean put it together dry.
Bring on the sun!
 
Pyd said:
Done.
Stripped down to everything I could possibly remove, cleaned with TSP, scrubbed, dried and reassembled.
Too dark to shoot now, but tomorrow when the sun comes up I will rattle off the 40 rounds that I bought.
Cleaning out that storage grease sucked, lots of work and I had the kitchen tied up for quite a while.
Oiling? Do I lightly oil the parts like I would any other gun? I ask because when I oiled the firing pin it would not rattle, so I wiped it clean put it together dry.
Bring on the sun!
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For lube, I lube the trigger assemply with grease including the hamer face, and grease the bolt and bolt carrier rails, with a drop or two of oil around any other pivit point. Also, the point where the gas tube attached to the barrel seems to like to rust a little, so a drp of oil around it when storing it helps . Thats prety much it. Keep the gas system and bolt dry.
 
Some will tell you not to lube the bolt at all, but i always have on every one of ym rifles, and have never had any problems. A shot of light silicone lube seems to work just fine.
 
The firing pin is 'floating', as opposed to held back under spring tension, so a common wisdom is to leave the pin assembly bone dry of oil - otherwise you risk crap building up and potentially causing slamfires.

Oh, incidentally, since you're new to SemiAuto - welcome to the concept of 'Slamfires'!
 
Brought it out this morning, at first sun and ran about 40 rounds through it, I like it, I like it a lot.
When I bought the gun I only bought 2 boxes of ammo, so my 40 rounds were gone in about 1 minute. Went bact to the shop to buy more, the gave my a box of federal soft points, and a very large box (50 rounds) of "new generation" rounds, they are all brass, look more traditional than the grey bulk ones. That was a pretty nice gesture on the stores part, always been good to me like that though.
My son, who is 8 seems to know a lot about this rifle, historically speaking, so he is enjoying it too. He went through a clip as well.
I do not understand the jag in the cleaning kit though, I have fount it pairs up nice as some kind of wrench with the kits holding tube, but I don't know why. Also, what size patch works best with the included kit?
Oh, no slamfire. Only put in two rounds the first time just in case, worked flawlessly. Now to clean it up again to sit in storage for that long, excrutiating wait to be shot again, tomorrow.
What kind of accuracy can I expect out of this gun? I am sure it varies, but what is an average group at 100 yards? I am a good, steady shot with open sights.
Guys, thanks for the help, it is appreciated!
 
Slamfires? - not if you clean the corrosive fouling out of the firing pin channel and use a quality light gun oil - sparingly....

I have fired tens of thousands of rounds out of an SKS and have never had a slamfire.
 
It's getting cleaned now.
Why does the included rod not reach from breach to muzzle? I do not like to drag anything down a barrel from muzzle backwards, but this rod seems to fall an inch short.
 
Pyd said:
It's getting cleaned now.
Why does the included rod not reach from breach to muzzle? I do not like to drag anything down a barrel from muzzle backwards, but this rod seems to fall an inch short.
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Because it was made like this so you wouldn't have to stip the rifle to quickley clean the barrel. Hence your cleaning tool has a crown protector.
 
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