How's this for a "Modified" SKS??!!

BerniePEI said:
That's overly harsh, don't you think?
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Darwin award - no. That's a poor show of class, Calum.
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Umm... hate to disagree (no I don't!) but this IS a darwin award candidate case.

What kind of f@cktard fires ANY weapon while it's still gummed up with cosmolene? Your pal could jut as easily have lost his face from an out of battery discharge due to a firing pin stuck forward with dried cosmo. That rifle looks almost like a booby trap waiting for the booby. Your buddy is the booby. It's pretty clear, don't you think?

Would YOU fire that weapon with all that cosmo on it? There's not enough $ in the world to make me want to.

The milled section in the barrel would have been discovered by any non-retarded person doing regular pre-firing maintenance. Your buddy need to go redo his PAL course methinks. :eek: :rolleyes:
 
First of all, it's no buddy of mine. I don't even know who the shooter was, I just saw the gun after the fact.

Second, all the PAL course really says about inspecting firearms is "examine the bore", and believe it or not, that slot is invisible inside the bore. I always take firearms apart before firing them... not because I thought a Chinese millwright would ever chew out the bottom of a barrel and ship it to Canada, but because I like to see how they work. Many firearm manuals don't even describe disassembly beyond the normal field strip.

Third, you're coming off awfully harsh on this shooter, but this rifle passed through the hands at least half a dozen people without this being discovered before he had the inexperience to miss this "feature" and bad luck to fire it. Perhaps most CGNutz would have found this flaw, but I just hope this thread will help the rest realize what kind of problems might exist in an otherwise good rifle.

Now... Just out of curiousity, has anyone else on here ever discovered anything like this on inspecting a surplus rifle (without blowing it up)? Does anyone have any idea why this rifle might have been doctored so?
 
I've found lots of problems on milsurp (and not milsurp) rifles that would have caused potential serious problems had they been fired as-is. I did due diligence and either disassembled the rifle for a safety check before being an idiot-boy and grabbing a handful of ammo and heading out the door.

God helps those who help themselves and those who don't win Darwin awards. Don't take this the wrong way, but in the future perhaps your motivation to clean and detail your guns before firing them should be less out of curiosity and more for safety's sake!

SKS's in particular are NOTORIOUS for hurting people if not cleaned properly. Greased firing pins stick. They fire out of battery. People are blinded, maimed, killed. This is fact. Barrels on some of them are improperly pinned (thanks Lever Arms!). Headspace grows dramatically with each pull of the trigger until a case head separates. Catastrophically. Sometimes like in your pics.

I doubt my health insurance would cover such stupidity and my family needs to rely on either me, or my insurance so I don't do stupid things like shooting SKS's I haven't personally ensured are SAFE. Even without the mill cuts that rifle was clearly not safe. Look at all the packing grease and cosmolene on the thing! I'm surprised the shooter could even chamber a round! Hell, I'm surprised the round didn't go off just by closing the bolt!

This not an attack on you. It's me trying to impress upon you that if you think the only thing wrong with that gun was a milled barrel, then you need to carefully consider the state of your own firearms IMHO.

And yes, I have seen crap like that mill cut on other rifles. Notably Steyr M95 drill rifles. They can be made to fire - just like above. Not a good idea.

And lastly, that SKS in your pics is no milsurp. It's a commercial Norinco from the looks of it. Not that it matters much.
 
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I really want to know what the original dealer had to say about it, and who has the rifle now? I doubt this would have been done in the factory.
 
Blackgunlover said:
If you can see the gas port just fine then you would have to be legally blind to miss that slot.
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Not so. Having looked down the barrel of this particular rifle the milled slot cannot be seen. IHard to believe but true - and I might add that comes from looking from both muzzle and chamber ends. In fact the owner of the rifle pulled a patch thru the bore and did'nt notice anything unusual.
 
Proutfoo said:
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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Let's get this corrected - the rifle that went K-B was not mine. In fact I don't even know the owners name. This was posted simply as a reminder to be safe - strange things lurk out there and the only way to remain safe is to assume responibility for your own gear and properly inspect it. Assume nothing!
 
Calum said:
I really want to know what the original dealer had to say about it, and who has the rifle now? I doubt this would have been done in the factory.
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I don't know what he would have to say as I have not talked to him about it. I really doubt that he would care very much since he is no longer in the gun business. From what I understand the guy who sold the rife (the original purchaser) refunded the money he got for the sale. He was just gratefull that he was not the one who test fired the thing. I really have no idea either as to who did the milling on the barrel.
 
Given what we know in this post so far , we have no way of knowing where it was modified . The shop could have " deactivated " it then sold it unknowingly . The fact that it's Chinese product is irelivant . At the looks of the slot I'm suprised a bore brush or bore light wouldn't have picked it up .
Glad no one was harmed .
 
That's just crazy. This is why I've never fired a firearm that I've obtained without dismantleing it first. Brand new or used. Modern or Milsurp. I only trust what I can see. Take some good advise and check everything before fireing and save us all the greif...
 
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