Russian SKS........Do they ever blow up ?
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I never clean mine and I shoot the cheapest stuff I can buy, it is used as a gun to just put cheap rounds down range, must have a couple of thousand rounds through it, they are so cheap if it ever starts causing problems buy another one and sell the old one for a hundred bucks, how can you go wrong.
I've a 1950 nonchromed Tula. My tiny extractor spring is in two pieces. Noticed it when I pulled the bolt apart for cleaning one day. Managed to get both pieces back in so the extractor would still work properly. That was a thousand rounds ago. Good gun. Still works like a champ.
Really should order a couple new springs one of these days.
Really should order a couple new springs one of these days.
muzzle break on an sks LOL...
yea I had one rust beyond repair basically.... Basement flooded... forgot the sks.... Lol... the fireing pin was seized up with rust so bad, tried hammering it loose and solvents... I broke it with the hammer... hahaha....
O well buy another !
yea I had one rust beyond repair basically.... Basement flooded... forgot the sks.... Lol... the fireing pin was seized up with rust so bad, tried hammering it loose and solvents... I broke it with the hammer... hahaha....
O well buy another !
I bent the heck out of the gas tube on my Russian refurb, I mean really bent, like curved :/ . fired 100 rnds straight pull for the rest of the day. Went home and patiently straightened the tube by eye with screwdrivers and 2X4s. Took it out, test fired, shot another 200 rounds semi-auto, no problems. I thought it would need a new tube, - it has remnants of 2 other serial numbers on that tube too yet, to boot.
I've only shot corrosive, always clean it meticulously, never have taken the bolt apart in well over 1000 rounds. Only small issue aside from me bending the tube - which has nothing to do with design of the rifle, is that some of the pressed in pins on the barrel/reciever have loosened and it became loose in its laminate stock after around 400 rounds.
I've only shot corrosive, always clean it meticulously, never have taken the bolt apart in well over 1000 rounds. Only small issue aside from me bending the tube - which has nothing to do with design of the rifle, is that some of the pressed in pins on the barrel/reciever have loosened and it became loose in its laminate stock after around 400 rounds.
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Have owned 8 and none of them have given me any trouble, as compared to many more expensive rifles I've owned where at least half had issues.
The SKS is the pack horse of the gun world... it's no prized thoroughbred, but it works without fuss.
The SKS is the pack horse of the gun world... it's no prized thoroughbred, but it works without fuss.
Oh, whoops. I plugged the gas tube to use it as a straight pull, but the plug wasn't the proper length and loosened up in the tube. I guess, like a little slide hammer, it started bending the narrow part of the tube. Because I had a plastic handguard on it had an area to bend up into and it pretty much moulded into the hollow in just 20 rounds. Who knows, I may have bent the tube slightly while punching the hand guard pin out, and this may have amplified it. There is a lot of force in there!
You didn't get the plug from Mark Williams did you? The right way is to just take the piston out and put the tube back on. That way the gases have somewhere to go. That in itself defeats the purpose of the SKS but people still do it...
Yes, as a watch, it always tells time, you just have to add or subtract minutes to make it accurate. As a rifle, it always fires, you just have to add or subtract minutes of angle to make it accurate.
Yeah, I've done it both ways now. It just stays so clean if it could be plugged
The SKS really does do best if left for what it's intended, I instantly regretted monkey-ing around with it.
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