Hk sl8-4
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fritzhanzel
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The size and weight is like an SKS. It is a little front heavy due to the bull barrel but has excellent accuracy because of this. There is a long thread under the sticky in the black rifle section explaining all the modifications.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1673143-HK-SL8-243-G36-FAQ-Mods-And-Info
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It is really accurate with 70 grain and heavier bullets
Beautiful toy to have
Beautiful toy to have
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I have an SL8-4 and it includes a double stack magazine. All the spare magazines I have are double stack.
SL8-4 is a great rifle. Accurate out of the box, very mild recoil and even though I am a small statured guy, I didn't find it too heavy. The only downside is the expensive $100 magazines (which are double stack in Canada). I have a Sig Romeo 5 on mine.
My son recently had an opportunity to shoot a bunch of my rifles at the club and he hands down chose the SL8-4 as his favourite to shoot.
SL8s imported to Canada uses double-stack magazines...
There used to be a magwell made by Spuhr that converted the SL-8 to use std stanag mags. There is / was a G36 style replacement lower made by Hera that is very nice to eliminate the oem ugly thumbhole stock. I bought mine some years ago, so can't swear either are still available, but worth doing a little investigation.
The Spuhr's are discontinued but you might be able to find one if you search hard enough. Tommybuilt is a company that does SL8 conversions and has a magwell available or just get the actual HK one.
Mine is from NEA which was a horrible rifle company that used to exist in Canada. Their signature "can't match a colour" coating gives it away. Still works with STANAG, magpull and LAR mags.
Mine is from NEA which was a horrible rifle company that used to exist in Canada. Their signature "can't match a colour" coating gives it away. Still works with STANAG, magpull and LAR mags.
I believe there is an easier solution here - I saw it on another thread. The G36 pmags can have some minor dremel work done on it to fit into the existing SL8 magwell. Some members here have done just that. No magwell replacement needed and no monkeying around with modifying existing magwell. The thread is in the Black Rifles sub-forum I believe...
fritzhanzel
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Pictures?
The last one I did was a Prs stock.
https://flic.kr/p/2o8X64V
https://flic.kr/p/2o8X64V
fritzhanzel
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Interesting, the problem with the SL8 is the integration of the stock into the trigger group. HK probably had to do it for the US market I guess.
I wonder if somebody did some 3D printed stocks or adapt airsoft parts.
Just got one, went shooting with it and was disappointed that it was getting around 2.5 MOA 5 shot groups with PPU 69 grain match.
I didn't think anything was wrong, just that maybe the rifle wasn't as accurate as everyone described. But when I was packing up I realized the scope mount was rattling around and didn't stay in place! When I mounted it the night I never checked as I was in a hurry.
Turns out the SL8-4 short rail is a weaver rail, and not Picatinny! The item descriptions that say it comes with a pic rail are all wrong. I returned my scope mount (this was a Vortex cantilever which only works with Pic and not with Weaver) and swapped it for a pair of rings which works for both Weaver and Pic and torqued it to spec and now the scope is solid as a rock on there.
So if you get one, make sure not to buy a Pic rail mount, because it's gonna sit loose on there.
I didn't think anything was wrong, just that maybe the rifle wasn't as accurate as everyone described. But when I was packing up I realized the scope mount was rattling around and didn't stay in place! When I mounted it the night I never checked as I was in a hurry.
Turns out the SL8-4 short rail is a weaver rail, and not Picatinny! The item descriptions that say it comes with a pic rail are all wrong. I returned my scope mount (this was a Vortex cantilever which only works with Pic and not with Weaver) and swapped it for a pair of rings which works for both Weaver and Pic and torqued it to spec and now the scope is solid as a rock on there.
So if you get one, make sure not to buy a Pic rail mount, because it's gonna sit loose on there.
