How's this for a "Modified" SKS??!!
- Thread starter P.E. Islander
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An SKS on the Island? Did you guys find a rifle range here 
It looks like an old style 'demill' attempt, when people will mill a slot in a barrel to make the firearm a 'deactivated' firearm. I have seen it on alot of guns, usually top side of the barrel if it was going for parts, but on some of the older demilled guns I have seen it buried in the stock so cosmetically it looked fine, but in the eyes of the owner it was no longer a gun.
I would 'assume' someone tried to 'deactivate' it at some point, and it either was forgotten, or lost in the shuffle.
It looks like an old style 'demill' attempt, when people will mill a slot in a barrel to make the firearm a 'deactivated' firearm. I have seen it on alot of guns, usually top side of the barrel if it was going for parts, but on some of the older demilled guns I have seen it buried in the stock so cosmetically it looked fine, but in the eyes of the owner it was no longer a gun.
I would 'assume' someone tried to 'deactivate' it at some point, and it either was forgotten, or lost in the shuffle.
Dosing said:An SKS on the Island? Did you guys find a rifle range here
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I bet there are a couple hundred SKS on the Island. Dosent everyone have one? Or two. I like the SKS, and would encourage everyone who does not have one to get one. As for rifle ranges, there is at least one rifle approved range in each county. Only the DND range is long enough to give a rifle a fair test. The others were designed more with pistols in mind but we make do.
Dosing said:
I would agree that this is the most likely reason for the milled slot. But how did it end up with the unmollested rifles? Seems to me that an improper dewat is more dangeous than an unmodified firearm.
303carbine said:Another quality product from the other side of the wall.....
Like a de-milled Enfield has never blow up under similar situations...
You don't inspect your rifle before you fire it you deserve what you get.
Almost a Darwin award.
I seriously doubt it left the Chinese factory this way...the penalties for this are VERY severe.
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona
I am just wondering if this was issued to some young communist "youth organization" (young pioneers) to be used as a ceremonial parade weapon or for "guarding" some monument. They are quite big on things like that.
Calum said:
That's overly harsh, don't you think?
As stated above - if you inspected the bore of this rifle, there is no way you could have seen the missing section in the barrel. A bore inspection is what the CFSC recommends before firing - I doubt if too many folks have ever seen a barrel cut like this. I'm sure many other GunNutz would have seen that the bore looked fine and fired it without a complete takedown inspection.
Darwin award - no. That's a poor show of class, Calum.
i have to agree with Calum,you would not miss this with a proper bore inspection.any used gun from any source needs a thorough look over.
granted,everyone would be surprised to find a large milled out area,but you are also looking for signs of fatigue such as cracks in the chamber.
feild striping a rifle is the only way to inspect it and properly clean and lube.
granted,everyone would be surprised to find a large milled out area,but you are also looking for signs of fatigue such as cracks in the chamber.
feild striping a rifle is the only way to inspect it and properly clean and lube.
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- Vancouver Island BC
sks
I never had an sks blow up on me.....it's pretty tough to get them to blow up in a hundred feet of salt water.
I never had an sks blow up on me.....it's pretty tough to get them to blow up in a hundred feet of salt water.
BerniePEI said:
No it is not, especially when it takes but one person to handle a firearm badly here in Kanuckistan, and the rest of us will have to pay for it.
Take this more seriously as the outcome could have been:
A) Serious Injury or Death of the shooter.
B) Serious Injury or death of a bystander, or several.
C) increase in insurance premiums.
D) Media focus, and ammo for the Antis.
E) Yet another thread where I have to read yet more silly bashing of the SKS.
Calum said:
The E) option is of little concern to me, as people snobbing SKSs is always humerous to me. The other 4 however are significant and I can only agree. The pictures in this thread show cosmo all over the rifle, which suggest that there was a little too much excitement to try it out by the owner instead of safety concerns. Guns are fun, but the fun factor significantly drops when you put a bullet through your own hand, or receiver fragments through your own head or worse, the the people standing next to you.
As for a show of class, if I was to post pictures of an SKS I blew up in my hands for failing to properly inspect it before fireing, I would rightfully expect and deserve a serious flame from everybody on this board. There are other issues than simple bore obstructions that need to be looked at before you pull the trigger. Every milsurp gun I have ever bought has been test-fired with a string while attached to a tire...you can't be too careful when it comes to your life, because until proven otherwise, it only comes around once.
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- Location
- Tucson, Arizona
Blindman, My local gun store has several SKS's on the rack.
I have to say I find the 'serves your buddy right' sort of mentality a little disconcerting, as it seems to have a strong air of ignorance about it.
I appreciate everyone here is apparently an expert in firearms, but I for one will attest to having fired more guns than I can count without stripping it down first, let alone taking the time to inspect it for defects first. On top of that I for one had to take time to build up my knowledge of firearms, and its on going to this day. There were precious few guns that out of the box I ever felt a 'need' to illustrate my unyielding expertise on, by immediately tearing it apart, to see if I could then figure out how to put it back together again.
Instead I usually picked up some ammo, did an external check, and went to the range. Now I will say that I always fire my first rounds with care, since I trust no gun, but even so I didn't sit down and tear them apart, unlike I was apparently supposed to.
For the experts out there I supposed tearing guns down and then putting them back together again is second nature eh? Well it sure as hell isn't for most gun owners. I lost count of how many people would come to me, or into the store with a gun in parts, not knowing how to put even rudimentary bolt actions back together. And I have to admit I never admonished them, acted smug to them, belittled them, or told them they were a danger to the gun owning public. That was namely because I live in the real world, where 95% of gun owners know nothing about guns, they are not gunnuts, but instead just gun owners. How many people can tear thier car apart and do a diagnostic on its computer?
Guns are like cars, the bulk of owners buy them from the source of sale in good faith, and only know ammo makes it go bang, it ends there. To take a beligerent attitude to gun owners who know less to me simply illustrates a lack of much experience with gun owners, let alone customer service.
I appreciate everyone here is apparently an expert in firearms, but I for one will attest to having fired more guns than I can count without stripping it down first, let alone taking the time to inspect it for defects first. On top of that I for one had to take time to build up my knowledge of firearms, and its on going to this day. There were precious few guns that out of the box I ever felt a 'need' to illustrate my unyielding expertise on, by immediately tearing it apart, to see if I could then figure out how to put it back together again.
Instead I usually picked up some ammo, did an external check, and went to the range. Now I will say that I always fire my first rounds with care, since I trust no gun, but even so I didn't sit down and tear them apart, unlike I was apparently supposed to.
For the experts out there I supposed tearing guns down and then putting them back together again is second nature eh? Well it sure as hell isn't for most gun owners. I lost count of how many people would come to me, or into the store with a gun in parts, not knowing how to put even rudimentary bolt actions back together. And I have to admit I never admonished them, acted smug to them, belittled them, or told them they were a danger to the gun owning public. That was namely because I live in the real world, where 95% of gun owners know nothing about guns, they are not gunnuts, but instead just gun owners. How many people can tear thier car apart and do a diagnostic on its computer?
Guns are like cars, the bulk of owners buy them from the source of sale in good faith, and only know ammo makes it go bang, it ends there. To take a beligerent attitude to gun owners who know less to me simply illustrates a lack of much experience with gun owners, let alone customer service.
Dosing said:
I would not go as far as saying that it "serves him right". I would rather say that there is a lesson to be learned here. A milsurp gun is not to be compared with one of recent, well established pedigree. A milsurp gun is one that was likely used and abused. It may or may not be of matching parts. Firing an unknown milsurp is a dangerous proposition when you don't know where it came from, if it a well-rebuilt arsenal gun or a parts-bin frankenstein.
and as you say, it is not for 95% of people. I agree. This is why probably that proportion of people have modern store-bought guns. It has nothing to do with showing off expertise.
Dosing said:
Safety before hurt feelings, it is the new PC/PG13 standard, get used to it.
Methinks Ignorant is someone almost killing themselves and others, and potentially dragging the rest of us down with them.
Imagine if there had been a little Kid or a Dwarf / little person standing nearby to get a face full of shrapnel...then this topic would be in Articles, with Wendy on the CBC pushing for a further ban on semi autos, or even a ban on MilSurps.
Methinks allot more then hurt feelings then.
And for the recorded I am glad no one was hurt, and I hope the dealer offers a full refund, or an exchange, and this works it's way up the importer food chain as a measure of accountability for their products.
At the least there are allot of good parts left on that rifle.
