I finally got a couple new SKS to compare my first one to, and am a newly converted fan of these guns. They have a ton of individuality (which I know next-to-nothing about), and the fact that they are so durable and self-contained really impresses me.
So anyways, I was scraping some of the cosmoline off the new ones, and realized that one of them has the return spring on the firing pin. I have read that this was due to the potential of slam-firing, but for some reason stop producing them like this? Is this standard in the newer (chinese) models at all? Or for some reason a brief thing of the past?
So anyways, I was scraping some of the cosmoline off the new ones, and realized that one of them has the return spring on the firing pin. I have read that this was due to the potential of slam-firing, but for some reason stop producing them like this? Is this standard in the newer (chinese) models at all? Or for some reason a brief thing of the past?
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