My Sensible SKS Project

Good to know you enjoyed it at the range, and I agree, so long as you enjoy it you don't need to justify it to anyone else but yourself (and maybe your wife). I had my SKS out Saturday by the thing was hitting two feet high at seven meters, and that was with the optics maxed out to downward, so I may have done some bubba'ing myself to get her a little closer to target. Here's my rifle, albeit it's a different optic that's causing trouble than the one on there in the pic.

(Sorry, just wanted to add another picture to the thread, break up the monotony of reading a little)
 
2 feet high at 7 meters is not good when maxed out on the scope........but on the bright side, it should be bang on at about 1200 meters. :)

Your rail needs a shim at the rear to level it out but that looks like a rail attached to the top fore stock. Is that what it is?

sharpsway said:
Good to know you enjoyed it at the range, and I agree, so long as you enjoy it you don't need to justify it to anyone else but yourself (and maybe your wife). I had my SKS out Saturday by the thing was hitting two feet high at seven meters, and that was with the optics maxed out to downward, so I may have done some bubba'ing myself to get her a little closer to target. Here's my rifle, albeit it's a different optic that's causing trouble than the one on there in the pic.

(Sorry, just wanted to add another picture to the thread, break up the monotony of reading a little)
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I adjusted the rear ring for the optic to raise the rear of the sight up a little, so hopefully that works and I don't need to do anything else. If worse comes to worse I'll just switch back to the cheap Can Tire optic you see in the picture. The rail itself replaced the upper handguard entirely, and so as I can tell it sits evenly, and solidly I might add.
 
The problem that I saw was a lack of good aperture sights to use off the self. The williams one was too far forward for quick acquisition and the other that attached via the retaining pin at the rear, was in the right location for acquisition butwas too bulky.

I could have had the assembly welded to the cover but this is not a simple as it would seem to be. Not everyone has access to that kind of equipment or the expertize to not change the strenght or temper of the cover during the welding, so I opted for taking a off the shelf mount and spending an hour making it into an acceptable alternative that anyone could copy.



luke s said:
I find a peep sight really helps with sks accuracy, or at least 10x better than the crude back leaf
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canuck94 said:
If there were only one perfect gun for the entire world population, there would be only one model, one caliber and one manufacturer of guns. This is clearly not the case and you're right, to each his own and thank god for that. Having one more than we need is what makes some of us, collectors. Not being satisfied with the status quo is what gives us that variety to choose from.

signed

Gabe MARtel
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You should change your name to gabeone!
 
Your sight looks neat and clean. It would be nice to see the steps taken in making it. It doesn't look as if there is much adjustment built into it though.

canuck94 said:
The problem that I saw was a lack of good aperture sights to use off the self. The williams one was too far forward for quick acquisition and the other that attached via the retaining pin at the rear, was in the right location for acquisition butwas too bulky.

I could have had the assembly welded to the cover but this is not a simple as it would seem to be. Not everyone has access to that kind of equipment or the expertize to not change the strenght or temper of the cover during the welding, so I opted for taking a off the shelf mount and spending an hour making it into an acceptable alternative that anyone could copy.
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You're absolutely right. There is very little adjustment to the sight and care has to be taken to ensure proper alignment to start.

What I did is during the process of fitting and filing the peep into place, I kept the rear sight in place and would put the gun in the gun vice and line up the front, v rear and the hole in the peep to achieve perfect alingment and not change the point of impact at 100 yds. (make damn sure the original sights are on target for this exercise).

The only adjustment is left to right via the two screws on the side and even that is very little, more to fine tune.

My thought was that this was not a long range weapon to start with so being effective to 100 yds would serve all my purposes.

I wrestled with the idea of some kind of vertical adjustment but the problem that I had was the sight had to be mounted very low on the receiver because of the positioning of the front sight being low as well.

I wanted something as compact as possible, impact resistant and reliable inside the parameters that I had given myself.

I can take the sight apart tonight if you wish and post a picture of the parts.

Polar_Hunter said:
Your sight looks neat and clean. It would be nice to see the steps taken in making it. It doesn't look as if there is much adjustment built into it though.
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I understand your line of reasoning, makes sense. No need to take it apart, but thanks for the kind offer.

canuck94 said:
You're absolutely right. There is very little adjustment to the sight and care has to be taken to ensure proper alignment to start.

What I did is during the process of fitting and filing the peep into place, I kept the rear sight in place and would put the gun in the gun vice and line up the front, v rear and the hole in the peep to achieve perfect alingment and not change the point of impact at 100 yds. (make damn sure the original sights are on target for this exercise).

The only adjustment is left to right via the two screws on the side and even that is very little, more to fine tune.

My thought was that this was not a long range weapon to start with so being effective to 100 yds would serve all my purposes.

I wrestled with the idea of some kind of vertical adjustment but the problem that I had was the sight had to be mounted very low on the receiver because of the positioning of the front sight being low as well.

I wanted something as compact as possible, impact resistant and reliable inside the parameters that I had given myself.

I can take the sight apart tonight if you wish and post a picture of the parts.
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Inspired by your comments on the peep sight I dug around in my stock and found an old Redfield. Tinkered this together after supper,,,



Hoping now for a nice day soon to take it out for a try.
 
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