Planning on buying my first SKS...

[clyde_napanee]

When you get it check for neutral or positive sear engagement, what you really want is Negative sear engagement. Check the rifle is unloaded, #### said rifle, and tap the butt firmly on the floor. Then check to see if it has released the hammer.

The reason you don't want positive sear engagement is that when cocked a minor bump will set it off.


Another ( and better way to check this) way is to remove the bolt and carrier so you can see the hammer.

Push the hammer down in the cocked position and take (if you are right handed) the ring finger of your left hand and push and hold down the little lever in front of the trigger group.

With your left trigger finger, put it on top of the hammer to hold the hammer from hitting your finger when you pull the trigger.


Now watch the hammer as you slowly pull the trigger and watch what the hammer does before it lets go. If the hammer moves downward before it lets go, you have negative sear.

If the hammer does not move before it lets go you have Neutral sear engagement.

If the hammer moves up before it lets go you have Positive engagement.

Watch very closely as it does not move much.

If you have Positive or neutral sear that just means that the trigger group could be set off by getting bumped or dropped.

It can be repaired, but as they are kinda finicky I do not know how to do it.


And if you shoot the corrosive ammo, clean it after each use.


SKS rule !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It takes a huge impact to make them fire, even tho its flaw in the design, it will likely never fire by getting hit or dropped, remember you have to hit it so hard that the pin has enough force to ignite the primer, this is hard to do. If not impossible.

 

[Rifleman1911]

Well I am just repeating what I learned on SKS boards, but I think that it is not a really big deal as you dont really have it loaded unless you are about to shoot it.

 

[bjs7293]

It takes a huge impact to make them fire, even tho its flaw in the design, it will likely never fire by getting hit or dropped, remember you have to hit it so hard that the pin has enough force to ignite the primer, this is hard to do. If not impossible.

When the concern happens from impact and it does happen, it is the hammer falling off the sear. The manual safety does not block the sear or hammer only the trigger. The excess amount of trigger creep with stock trigger groups is a form of a safety with negative or neutral sear engagement. The hammer is engaged farther on the sear.