first 2 things you should do to improve your sks

lone-wolf said:
You give a man czech surplus, he shoots for (lets say) a year, You teach a man to reload, he shoots for a lifetime.
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Lulz; Czech surplus is cheaper; so not only would it be time inefficient... It would also be one sad waste of cash that could be used for buying more surplus/more range time
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Buy a couple of crates and go nutz; its perfect the way it is.
 
lone-wolf said:
You give a man czech surplus, he shoots for (lets say) a year, You teach a man to reload, he shoots for a lifetime.
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CZ surplus is $0.16 per shot. Cost to reload 7.62 x 39 is approx. $0.40 not to mention the tooling and the time involved.

I'll reload 7.62 x 39 when CZ surplus runs out or when the economics justify.

Performance wise, it gets better for surplus. A fellow CGNner I was talking to yesterday mentioned that accuracy of surplus vs his reloads were very close in his AR. Maximum velocity of his reloads were about 2100 fps x 2300 fps for surplus.

We are living in a time of 7.62 x 39 abundance. It will end sometime but meanwhile, I will relish the moment:D
 
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I have just got my Choate dragunof stock [delivered to a US address and brought back]and Williams fire sights installed-and I think thats about all I'm going to do as long as I can shoot it .I took off the cheek piece,its to high for open sights,and besides its nice and compact this way without bits sticking out all over,carries nicely.I'd like to see if I can lighten up the trigger though
 
geologist said:
Leave it the way it is.

Shoot it lots.
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Good advice. Listen to this.

As for the CZ surplus, these guys are right, and you should be buying it now. It's not going to last forever, and at that price. Look at the price of .223 or 7.62x51 even three years ago and you will know why you should be taking advantage of the present time.
 
If you want something tacticool, get one of the Robinson Arms units and you won't have to waste your $ on aftermarket parts. Your first priority should be a trigger job on your sks, then get some muffler tape or aluminum foil tape and put layers on the rear receiver tang until the forend is hard up against the forend retainer, and you can just get the trigger assembly to clip into place. Then whistle dixie if you want. ;)
 
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I'm 6'5" so the first thing that I did was to get a ATI Monte Carlo stock so that the length of pull was more comfortable for me. The next thing I did was to get a new sear and spring loaded firing pin. The sear to reduce creep in the trigger pull and the spring for ease of mind about slam fires.
 
A basic SKS is already a fine and reliable weapon.

That being said, you can surely tune it up :p

Personally I've put a tapco stock on mine and I just bougt a duckbill magazine from frontier firearms. I wanna keep the bayonet so I won't do that much more tacticool modifications on it. But if you don't like the bayonet you can put a vertical grip on the forend, looks badass :p

In the end It's all about personal taste !
 
I find my 'rinco triggers aren't terrible, (not good, just not terrible) but my russian feels like it's made of sand and cookies.

1.The williams peep sight is great out to 200 m, but has no fast adustment for elevation. Regardless, it's a big improvement.

2.Work up a load, and roll your own ammo. The pie plate accuracy is normal for any gun shooting military surplus 7.62x39. I've heard similar complaints about U.S. .556 surplus compared to reloads or Canadian issue.
 
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