Optically Clueless
- Thread starter Sniffer
- Start date
Have you seen a SKS eject cases? Pretty violent and go straight up. So your scope will be abused by flying burning hot steel cases.
Guy I spoke with at the range today was telling me he had this *exact* issue on his SKS
So would a strike eagle (which is much shorter and I`m guessing could be placed much further back to avoid this issue) work?
I have to say that for $220 this is a lot of gun for the money
Surprised myself that I could hit steel at 150+ yards with the standard peep sights!
Did the guy at the range also tell you how he could never keep the scope zeroed because the receiver cover that it is mounted on is never 100% tight and floats around whenever you fire a shot?
Did he also mention that his scope only lasted 50 rounds before the reticle in the scope fell apart because the bolt hits the back of the receiver cover so hard that it beats the scope internals to death?
And did any body mention that your $200 dollar rifle is a 65 year old commie battle rifle that was made for illiterate Russian peasants to spray and pray in the direction of the Capitalist oppressors and has about the overall accuracy of a fire hose.
You really want to waste your time and money putting a scope on that?
If you want to play with scopes, get yourself a cheap Remington SPS in .308, buy whatever scope tickles your fancy and shoot a thousand rounds through it. After that, get yourself a new stock, a nice Krieger precision barrel to screw onto your Remmy action, and, whoopee!, you suddenly have a precision rifle.
See? Wasn't that easy?
And finally, to be all pedantic, the SKS does not have "peep sights". They are just plain open sights, no peeping required.
Heh.
OP, expecting to put a 32x or 50x scope on an SKS just because you think you might use it on another gun someday, makes about as much sense as putting a set of 45-inch Super Mudder offroad tires on your Honda Civic, just because you are eventually planning to buy and build up an off-road truck. Everyone is telling you not to do this, for good reason.
This is what is commonly referred to as "a clue".
This is what is commonly referred to as "a clue".
I had the OP out today looking through various scopes.First thing I told him was sks sucks, don't waste your money. I said if you like to shoot at pop cans at 50 yds and miss every time. This was while blasting pop cans at 307 yds today with my T3 varmint 223 and PST 6-24×50.I think I answered a few ?
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
I have two NXS (3.5-15x and 5.5-22x) and, yes, they are worth the money.
That being said, you would be better off taking your $600 and buying a better rifle to put it on. Scoping an SKS is ridiculous and putting quality glass on one is even dumber.
Hopefully that opened his eyes.
Cue the SKS fanboys.
Last edited:
Well, I put a scope on one of my SKS's, using the MagWedge mount. It works as advertised and holds zero well. I have a couple hundred rounds through the combo without problems. So, to all those spouting off about what a dumb idea it is to scope an SKS, all I can say is...
...you are absolutely correct! One of the dumbest gun-related things I've ever done; complete waste of time and money.
By the way, it was a 1-4x20 scope...not quite as ridiculous as what's being discussed on this thread, but still silly...
...you are absolutely correct! One of the dumbest gun-related things I've ever done; complete waste of time and money.
By the way, it was a 1-4x20 scope...not quite as ridiculous as what's being discussed on this thread, but still silly...
