His anybody actually had a mech failure on an SKS? (Not talking ammo probs)

I broke my Murrays fp. Put the old one back in, works like a charm. Shoulda never bothered with the spring pin, just clean the whole thing after shooting corrosive. And stay away from commercial ammo, the primers are too soft. Also don't dry fire it if you can help it, the fp hole gets cone-shaped.
 
kerfuffled said:
I broke my Murrays fp. Put the old one back in, works like a charm. Shoulda never bothered with the spring pin, just clean the whole thing after shooting corrosive. And stay away from commercial ammo, the primers are too soft. Also don't dry fire it if you can help it, the fp hole gets cone-shaped.
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same here with the Murray pin and dry fire
 
140 rounds, nothing. Absolutely no problems, whatsoever.

Not even a hiccup.

Looking at the marks the ejector makes on the steel cases, it seems like this rifle is built like a brick ####house.
The thing is so aggressive, I can't imagine how badly it would MAUL brass cases.

I can't imagine it failing, but boy is the surplus I'm shooting dirty.
 
No problems with my SKS. I cannot say the same about my CSA vz58. If I had to choose one or the other to overwinter in the woods with , it would be the SKS for sure.
 
Its interesting that as many members on CGN, and most seemingly to own and SKS, that there are so few malfunctions to report. I really thought there would be more.

I have many SKS rifles, some of them I've owned and shot since the 80s with many thousands of rounds through them, and have never had a hiccup. These rifles with original parts have to be the most indestructible rifles I've ever fired.
 
It is interesting but these are well made, simply designed battle rifles circa 1950's. My only complaint are the sights...they suck. You do get "used to them" but can anyone explain why the front post when lined up with the rear notch allows next to no light on either side?
 
Now that I think of it, I've never had an SKS malfunction. While I do take good care of mine, I've bought and sold about a dozen and fired thousands of rounds.
 
Brick sh@t house indeed! Today un be known to me "buddy " had a tok round in his pocket and decided to if his sks would shoot it ... Yes he's definitely abit of a special Fred , however it didn't blow up and did fire the round! Brick sh@t house yes! Time for new friends yes :(



Battlerifleelitist said:
140 rounds, nothing. Absolutely no problems, whatsoever.

Not even a hiccup.

Looking at the marks the ejector makes on the steel cases, it seems like this rifle is built like a brick ####house.
The thing is so aggressive, I can't imagine how badly it would MAUL brass cases.

I can't imagine it failing, but boy is the surplus I'm shooting dirty.
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Broke the firing pin on two different norincos.

I also had a lean round (not sure if this is the correct term) that was not loaded to spec and when fired it didn't provided enough power to bring the bolt all the way back and during ejection the bolt started coming forward before the casing was all the way out of the chamber and chopped it in half leaving about 3/4cm of the tip of the shell in the barrel. Anybody else ever hVe this happen?

-I know it's not a mechanical failure but just wanted to include it.
 
Mumbles Marble Mouth said:
No time have I ever had to go home but my SKS has a problem with stove piping live rounds once in a while. About every 100 rounds it does it twice. Kind of scary. Makes you think its going to explode in your face.
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I had this happen to me last winter. It happened with a crate of Romanian surplus I purchased. I think with six different SKS carbines I had about 40 instances of it stovepiping a live round. Once I finished that crate of ammo, the problem went away. I think there was something wrong with the ammo I had, because I've never had the problem since with both Chinese and Russian surplus.

On topic, I've never had a part break on any of my SKS rifles. The SKS is pretty much the most reliable semi-automatic I've ever fired.
 
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