How does your SKS Shoot?

Wulf45 said:
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God I miss being able to dump the whole stripper clip into the magazine. :(

But millions of baby's lives have been saved so it's worth it. :rolleyes:
 
Blindeyes said:
Maybe you need to not drink so much when you go shooting. Your groups will improve more the less liquored up you are.
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I personally wouldn't go to the range with anyone who had even a hint of Alcohol on their breathe and neither would any of the people that i know.
 
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My Russian refurb is capable of around 4" with Cz surplus on a good day. If I use commercial Privi Partisan, the groups tighten up a bit to maybe around 3" for 5 shots @ 100 yards.

My 59/66 will do 3" X 5 shots on a good day with CZ surplus ammo. I have not yet tried it with PP commercial ammo.

Edit: all benched with iron sights.
 
daroccot said:
Russian SKS, Using 1979 Surplus, mine does this...

6 inches right at 100, right on at 200, 300, 12 inches left at 385, 18-20 inches left at 500. Elevations are fine, it's like throughing a curve ball?

Weird.

Jason
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I'll bite because nobody else will.


You have a bad crown on your rifle. Many reburbs have been in the field for many years with lots of use. The arsenal refurbs did not necessarily modify or touch the crown, and the ones that did were often with a hand tool.

A bad crown on the muzzle can do many strange things, such as tumbling, curving your rounds as said above, or just plain can't hit the damned target from 25 feet away.


I've taken in several beautiful looking military surplus rifles to service the crown because they wouldn't shoot straight; including Mosins, SKS, Mausers, and Enfields. Less than 50 bucks and you're walking away.
 
recrowning is something that you can do at home. In times past, you took a suitably round headed bolt like a toggle bolt with a round head, got some emery grit (sometimes by burning emerycloth of the grit you want) mix it with oil and apply it to the screwhead (no offence), and chuck the screw in a hand drill. It was useful to have a supply of the proper grit of valve grinding compound as you needed to use a certain amount of it as it gets worn away / clogged with steel. It works and is a doable at home project.
 
My chinese sks shot 2 inch groups out of the box with surplus ammo, but now that I had to F with it and put it in synthetic collapsible stock with 2 kinds of optics it shoots almost wherever the hell it wants.

Have bore sighted it, took to the range and is shooting 14 inches high at 25 yards-make some adjustments, can get it decent for about 60 rounds then is all over the place again.

Under no illusions, I know it's the crappy mount on the receiver cover-just have to remember to tighten it down every 20 to 30 rounds or so.

It is capable of putting 10 shots in a coffee cup size hole at 25 yards its just that you have to hold sometimes 5-6 inches low to the right to achieve it LOL!
 
I can shoot consistent 3 to 4 inch groups when I sandbag it on a bench at 100 metres using Prvi commercial loads. I get similar results with the Czech surplus stuff, but with occasional flyers. I have been very content with my 1952 laminate refurb.
 
50 yards benched, iron sights, front: tech sights target sight, sights were smoked.

This is the same group, 1-1/2" CENTER TO CENTER

PRIVI PARTISAN 123 GRAIN SOFT POINTS

RIFLE: RUSSIAN BELL REFURB

WEATHER CONDITIONS: SUNNY FAIR DAY APPROX 20 C, GENTLE BREEZE FROM RIGHT TO LEFT, FACING THE TARGET; 11:00 AM LOCAL TIME.

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with my rusky SKS I had no issues hitting a 4 inch gong at 100. but then I forgot to clean it after a range day. now its a truck gun cause I have trouble hitting a 8 inch gong at 50 meters.

As for the curve ball rounds; it sounds like some bad round drift is at play. somethings wrong with the twist/lands of the barrel. if you don't have the proper spiral on the bullet the sights will be out since they are manufactured to compensate for the drift of the round with the spec twist rate. (if you have ever shot a larger round .50 cal or 25mm the drift compensation is huge especialy at long range. even on .303 you can see the sites are genraly slightly "angled").
 
I get around 8inch groups at 100 meters but that is with the crappy orange targets we have at my club... Perfect for scopes but you can't see them to well with iron sight beyong 50 meters.
 
From a sandbag at 100yds, with surplus ammo, I'm getting 3 1/2" groups. But the sights are at it's lowest setting and I'm still shooting 14" high.
 
Had 1 shot 3" groups at 100yds all day. Then I forgot to clean it. It then shot all over the place. Got rid of it. Now have 4.
Bought one and it shot 2" groups consistently (I remember to clean it now), still does. That is with a Ram Line syntnetic stock and a Leapers 3-9x X 32mm scope and one of those receiver mounts.
I have another that shoots 3" groups all day with Czech milsurp.
Another has not been shot yet. One of the un-issued chinese ones MarStar was selling.
Another shot 8" groups at 50yds!! I checked it out, drilled out the muzzle to get past the stripped/damaged riflling, and now it shoots 2-3" groups.
 
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