Glass bed SKS?

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Just a thought because we all know proper bedding improves accuracy big time anybody ever thought about or have done glass bed to a SKS?:confused:

I know if we are looking for accuracy we should look for something known to be more accurate like the M305s or bolt gun but if its just a weekend's work can improve accuracy on the sks why not?Is this doable?
 
I've tried bedding an SKS with good success. If you have an SKS that shoots over 4" at 100m then there's a pretty good chance that a bedding job will fix a lot of your woes.

I first studied how the action fits into the stock. I compared a chinese stock, a russian stock, and a chinese fibreglass stock, and what really showed me how the SKS is bedded was the fibreglass stock.

The action is only bedded in three places:
1) under the sheet metal "cup" at the front of the stock,
2) a point midway along the action where the crossbolt goes through, right where the barrel joins up with the action,
3) and at the rear of the action, the very rear recoil lug and the underside of the upside down L shaped dust cover.

The cup at the front keeps the action from rising up at the front, the mid point bedding keeps the action from sliding forwards, and the rear lug bedding keeps the action from sliding back and up.

If you pull on the trigger guard hard, wiggle the action around, and squeeze the handguard down and find that there is movement, then the spring tension of the trigger/hammer unit is the only thing that's keeping the action from moving around. Which probably isn't a good thing :)

After I bedded my rifle I found it difficult to get the trigger unit in, it was that tight. It went from a 8" to 9" shooter to an easy 3" to 4" shooter after bedding (surplus ammo).
 
Sure, I did it to one of my norinco sks's a couple years ago. If I remember correctly you can't get it super tight, or else you can't remove the stock the normal way. However, it made a drastic improvement on stock fit, and I'm sure this helped the accuracy.

I don't think I'd do it on a russian sks, but on a norinco there's no reason not too, in my opinion.
 
Why....getting pie plate sized groups at 100yrds isn't accurate enough!?!?! SKS's are fully accurized right out of the box!! Just shake off the grease and let'er rip!!

If you want a accurate rifle buy a 700! Otherwise don't waste your money. Once you glass bed crap, all you've got is glass bedded crap!
 
Thanks everyone for your post!

I know the sks will never be a target rifle being a gun nut like everyone here and if I can tweak it a little to make it shoot better why not?

Tudenom,

Do you still have that sks you have bedded?

Any pics to share how you did that?
 
I bedded the first new Chinese SKS that went through my shop, years ago. Occurred to me that the rifle clamped together, not unlike a M-1 or M-14, so stabilizing it in a similar fashion should work. Bedded the upper group much like Tudenom suggested, then bedded the rear of the trigger guard. Tightened up the fit dramatically, the rifle shot really well afterwards.
 
One of the easiest and best ways we have used is to drill and tap and put a 8/32 bolt up through the bottom of the back of the trigger guard to the bottor rear of the reciever. It means you have to undo the bolt when you want to remove the stock but really, how often do you really need to do that? This method will work on all SKS's no matter how they are stocked.
And for those rem 700 lovers, I've got an SKS that will out shoot a 700 out to 300m! We fitted it with a 28" barrel, put it into a ATI stock and used the above method to set it up.

Scott
 
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m39a2 said:
One of the easiest and best ways we have used is to drill and tap and put a 8/32 bolt up through the bottom of the back of the trigger guard to the bottor rear of the reciever. It means you have to undo the bolt when you want to remove the stock but really, how often do you really need to do that? This method will work on all SKS's no matter how they are stocked.
And for those rem 700 lovers, I've got an SKS that will out shoot a 700 out to 300m! We fitted it with a 28" barrel, put it into a ATI stock and used the above method to set it up.

Scott
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:D Any pics?
 
ShooterPHD said:
Why....getting pie plate sized groups at 100yrds isn't accurate enough!?!?! SKS's are fully accurized right out of the box!! Just shake off the grease and let'er rip!!

If you want a accurate rifle buy a 700! Otherwise don't waste your money. Once you glass bed crap, all you've got is glass bedded crap!
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congrats.

you have totally missed the point.

:rolleyes:
 
Personally I'd not glass bed, but instead handle the SKS like a Mosin and shim the action in those two places, and float the barrel by sanding the inside of the barrel channel.

Also if you have a bayonet on your SKS still, then try shooting with it folded out, or remove it...it's a barrel harmonics thing.


303carbine said:
Minute of barn is about the best the sks will do.
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I'm pretty sure my SKS will out-shoot your Enfield at 100 - 200 - 300 meters. :D
 
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m39a2 said:
One of the easiest and best ways we have used is to drill and tap and put a 8/32 bolt up through the bottom of the back of the trigger guard to the bottor rear of the reciever. It means you have to undo the bolt when you want to remove the stock but really, how often do you really need to do that? This method will work on all SKS's no matter how they are stocked.
And for those rem 700 lovers, I've got an SKS that will out shoot a 700 out to 300m! We fitted it with a 28" barrel, put it into a ATI stock and used the above method to set it up.

Scott
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Scott,

Any update whether you can post some pics about the drill and tap you mentioned?

Thanks
 
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