Finally got to play with my first SKS

Awesome video, your friend played the part very well!

The sights take some practice, but I prefer them over my SMLE or M96 irons. An SKS sight adjustment tool can help you greatly.
 
Bitumen said:
Doesn't it seem kind of wrong when a person says "I got to play with..." some particular firearm? Playing with something is like toys and I don't think a firearm is toy.
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Okay there...

Be safe...and that is all that matters. Is shooting not a fun hobby? If no...why do you do it?!

Or are you the super somber, apologetic user who prays for forgiveness every time you pull your gun out of its triple locked cabinet to go shoot a deer in the face?
 
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Andreas7.62 said:
Be extra careful with those. I sold mine because it would go off sometimes when i closed the action.
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An easy fix...either clean it PROPERLY or get a spring loaded firing pin.

If you ALWAYS keep it pointed in a safe direction and only load/chamber it when needed, ie. RIGHT before you use it then that really should be an "issue", just an annoyance!!!
 
Raton57 said:
Used to be a store in Calgary called Toys for Big Boys. Bought many guns there . It sort of changed into Proline. By the way all this talk of slam fires and such is making me scared to test fire mine.
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ALWAYS keep it pointed in a safe direction, finger off the trigger til your ready to go...make sure its clean, don't stick a round directly INTO the chamber and close the bolt (allows more momentum to build up and if there is a stuck forward firing pin...it may go off)...feed from the magazine only. AND...HAVE FUN!!!...just pick up all the spent casing and your targets, looks bad on us all if you do not.
 
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Mumbles Marble Mouth said:
Hey I got a question for you, sorry for hi-jacking your thread OP. There is a couple of SVT-40's at near by gun shop and I was thinking about picking one up. First, as I usually do, is look at reviews on youtube before buying just about any gun. Every review showed the SVT-40 has terrible accuracy. Like 6" at 100 meters bad. It may just be the shooters in the videos are terrible, or it really could be the gun is inherently inaccurate. What I want to know is, what is the best group you ever got with any of your SVT-40s? What is the average group you achieve with them? and finally, What is the worst groups you've ever gotten out of any of your SVT-40s. Thanks in advance.
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When using old, crappy ammo (surplus)..."meh" quality sights and who knows how great the shooter is behind then gun? (what REALLY matters!)...What did you expect the groups to be?

These are 70+ year old guns...mass produced and are semi auto...and they cost $300. They can hit a man...out to 300 or more yards away...that is all they are designed to do. Run better ammo in them, PRACTICE and they will shoot tighter groups (provided your barrel and crown are good), but they will never be MOA guns, even the well loved Dragunov isn't a MOA gun.
 
jeffcarr88 said:
An easy fix...either clean it PROPERLY or get a spring loaded firing pin.

If you ALWAYS keep it pointed in a safe direction and only load/chamber it when needed, ie. RIGHT before you use it then that really should be an "issue", just an annoyance!!!
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Exactly right, I put Murray spring pins in all mine and they work a charm ....never had a problem.
 
jeffcarr88 said:
When using old, crappy ammo (surplus)..."meh" quality sights and who knows how great the shooter is behind then gun? (what REALLY matters!)...What did you expect the groups to be?

These are 70+ year old guns...mass produced and are semi auto...and they cost $300. They can hit a man...out to 300 or more yards away...that is all they are designed to do. Run better ammo in them, PRACTICE and they will shoot tighter groups (provided your barrel and crown are good), but they will never be MOA guns, even the well loved Dragunov isn't a MOA gun.
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My SKS with ####ty surplus ammo gets no worse then 4" groups at 100 meters with a barrel and crown that has seen better days. Best would be 3" with quality ammo. But if the SVT can't get at least 3 - 4" groups then I don't want it. Just wanting to know what people get out of them and it seems everyone gets big 6" groups or worse with them.
 
Too many people treat shooting as a Uber serious sport, nice to see people just having a good time.

Buy a recoil pad for your buddy's gun and he will love the added length of pull and so will a tall person
like yourself.

Slam Fires only happen to American red necks who use the SKS as a "Truck Gun"
ie. shoot at road signs or other targets when they are cruising around, they then stash
the rifle behind the seat without cleaning it, not smart, kinda lazy, Slam Fire City.
 
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In several thousand rounds, including a couple hundred handloads using CCI primers, I've only had slamfires with one type of ammunition; which was Federal Fusion. I've heard here and there that Federal primers are thin and to be cautious using them in semi-autos with a free floating pin, and my experience was enough to prove it to me. I only put ten rounds of it through my SKS and got three slam fires. Glad I didn't have my Chrony set up; knowing my luck I would have vaporized one of the sun shades on the second or third shot. I checked the rifle afterwards and it was clean and undamaged; I'm not sure what would break an SKS but I seriously doubt a slamfire would hurt it.
 
Raton57 said:
Used to be a store in Calgary called Toys for Big Boys. Bought many guns there . It sort of changed into Proline. By the way all this talk of slam fires and such is making me scared to test fire mine.
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Keep the bolt clean and lightly lubed and you shouldn't have slam fire problems...I never had a slam fire on my Chinese SKS. This is one rifle that everyone should own.

GM1
 
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