I have an SKS with a Bent Barrel

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Does anyone know the cost/outcome of getting the thing straightened? It's about 2-3 mm off from breach to crown. This is my first SKS and I'm pretty pissed.
 
You now have a parts gun , It isn't worth the investment to try and fix .
How long has it been this way , If you just got it , return it to the seller .
I don't know what you paid but if its in good shape the parts should fetch close to a hundred bucks .
 
Ritchie said:
Does anyone know the cost/outcome of getting the thing straightened? It's about 2-3 mm off from breach to crown. This is my first SKS and I'm pretty pissed.
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I thought all SKS's came that way. Glad to hear you got a good one :D
 
I picked it up from the post office yesterday, I got it from the CGN forum.

Took it home and looked down the sights. I couldn't push the stock far enough into my cheek to line up the front sights. I turned it over, removed the bayo and looked down the barrel. Bent. Pulled the bolt and looked down the bore. Bent. I had to look from the corner of the receiver to get the crown "centered".
 
Go off and beat it over a stump. Then look down the barrel to see if you've straightened it and beat it again.
I am very serious. You will have to take it down and take barrelled action in your hand, then determine where it is bent and give it one good whack over something sturdy, like 4x4". Then look again and so on. This is repairable and it costs you nothing if you do it yourself. This is not a shotgun, where a barrel can be easily damaged beyond repair by straightening.
 
Well, I've removed the barrel and action, popped out all the pins. Just need some heat to slide the sights off. Then I'll chuck it to see where the bow is.
 
Ritchie said:
I picked it up from the post office yesterday, I got it from the CGN forum.

Took it home and looked down the sights. I couldn't push the stock far enough into my cheek to line up the front sights. I turned it over, removed the bayo and looked down the barrel. Bent. Pulled the bolt and looked down the bore. Bent. I had to look from the corner of the receiver to get the crown "centered".
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I would have sent it back and asked for a refund.
 
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Well, I've removed the barrel and action, popped out all the pins. Just need some heat to slide the sights off. Then I'll chuck it to see where the bow is.
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once the pins are out you should be able to press off the sights, without heat.

I have a project that I'm slowly working on that is going to require that I remove a barrel from an SKS so I may have a spare sometime in the future IF it all works out like I think it may. Or I might end up with a pile of junk :)

Right now I'm in the process of building a reciever wrench and trying to figure out how best to remove the barrel, without screwing everyting up.
 
Ritchie said:
Does anyone know the cost/outcome of getting the thing straightened? It's about 2-3 mm off from breach to crown. This is my first SKS and I'm pretty pissed.
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I will cost you a bit of your time,and that's about all.

First take the barrelled action out of the stock and dont worry about where the sights are for the moment.

Determine where the bend is by laying a yardstick or other straight edge between the barrel where it is fitted into the receiver and the muzzle. Do this in at least four places around the barrel and you will quickly see where the bend is, and what direction the barrel needs to go to be straightened.

Support the barrel between a couple of 2X4 or 4X4 blocks with the bend in the barrel positioned up. Now give it a good whack with a composition or lead mallet. I suppose even a good heavy piece of hardwood will do.

Check with the straight edge again, and see where you need to go next with the same treatment.

Keep checking and keep whacking until you get it as straight as you can. It may take a few tries, but eventually you will have an SKS that shoots as straight as any of them. :D

Take it to the range, shoot it and adjust the sights to point of impact

Ted
 
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It is a fact that 'barrel straitening' was practiced by very high-end european gun builders until fairly recently, and maybe still is.
I saw pictures of a barrel bender at the Hyem factory, and read an article about how it takes a very practiced eye to straiten the barrel for an Anshutz target rifle.
 
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