Sks accuracy

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I bought an SKS and tried it out at the range in each five round group I had three round in a nice cluster and two flyers. I suspect that as the barrel is heating up it is losing accuracy.

Same thing happened with cheap surplus ammo and winchester.
 
SKS accuracy can be spotty. The screwed in barrels might be better, but there is no guarantee. My old abused sks was always minute of typing paper at 200 yards.
 
pinned vs. threaded

definately check to see if your barrel is pinned or threaded. If its a yugo SKS it will be threaded, if it is Norinco it could be either or, and It's easy to see the difference.

There is no price difference between threaded or pinned, you just have to watch when you buy it, some people don't care, cuz they'll both function just fine within three hundred metres, but the threaded is better.
It does make a difference, but i do agree, two inches at 100, is nothing to complain about for an SKS. I know with mine i can knock down the steel pigs (about a foot and a half by a foot) at my shooting range at three hundred metres consistantly, with the stock iron sites. I love sks's

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i wish I knew how to post pics up here, cuz its kinda hard to explain without them... the threaded barrel actually looks like it has a nut mounted at the base of the barrel right where it attaches to the reciever, while the pinned barrel looks...
well here lets see if i can illiistrate: ______
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like that; just square into the receiver and pinned in place.
Another thing to keep in mind when buying an SKS, is look at the depth of the marks in action from the machining, the smoother the better; the deeper machining marks are a sign of softer steel used in production.
Also for SKS owners, i would say nothing is more valuable than rubber shims and a dremel tool.
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SKScanuck said:
2" at 100 metres or 10 metres?

At 100 metres, that is nothing to gripe about. At 10 metres....
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ya that should be 2" groups at 100 yards. but there are other factors like how well you can see open sights, how warm the bbr is ex ex ex.
a 4" groups with open sights isnt even that bad at 100 yards with an open sighted sks.
talk to ya all later
Riley
 
jollyroger said:
i wish I knew how to post pics up here, cuz its kinda hard to explain without them... the threaded barrel actually looks like it has a nut mounted at the base of the barrel right where it attaches to the reciever, while the pinned barrel looks...
well here lets see if i can illiistrate: ______
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like that; just square into the receiver and pinned in place.
Another thing to keep in mind when buying an SKS, is look at the depth of the marks in action from the machining, the smoother the better; the deeper machining marks are a sign of softer steel used in production.
Also for SKS owners, i would say nothing is more valuable than rubber shims and a dremel tool.
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I thought that is what you meant but I was not sure. So here is the million dollar question. Which SKS would you buy? Currently there are 3 sources Marstar Yugo M59 model 1 @ $250, Miarms Norinco surplus @ $165 and P&S Norinco surplus @ $ 185?
 
remember the ammo 7.62 x 39 ( 7.62 short) is about the same ballistics to a 30-30 winchester..........since the ruskies way back at the end of ww2 basicly copied the german 7.62 kurtz ( short) round, designed for the mp44 .....wich was designed to engage targets out to about 300m--500m or so MAX.( german officers did a study on rifles just after ww1 an figured out ya dont need a general issue gun with sites out to 2000 m since average joe grunt cannot see let alone hit anything after 300 to 50o m. or so. in battle.
if your sks can make 2 inch groups at 100m, ok if you got 2 flyers out of a 5 shot group, could it be you? did you move outa position, re-position yerself after a stoppage? ect..........just asking i know ya shoot ok bud.
from ex sgt...?? . remember??
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Operator error is likely. I am shooting at typing paper pages I put a 2 by 2 inch stinky to indicate the center of target, however at 100 hards I don't see the sticky when I am shooting as the previous poster who taught me how to shoot 15 years ago told mention to focus on the front sight not the target. I am guessing where the center is of that white blur.

However doing my best Vassili Zaitsev impression I noticed after 12 five shot groups that all had a nice cluster of three shots and two flyers and thought hey is'nt that interesting wonder if anybody else noticed this?

I am not complaining. I bought the 135.00 gun from lever arms and a case of surplus ammo and am very pleased that the gun goes bang.
 
mine shoots sub MOA at 500 meters! HAHAHAHA. isn't sarcasm great? But seriously, I've noticed that sometimes my SKS gets wild flyers too. Like, 10 or 15 feet at 200 yards occasionally! Go figure, I still love it. An SKS isn't meant for accuracy, its meant for cheap, noisy fun fun fun!!!
 
tough call as to which one I would buy, I'v never had any probs dealing with marstar, but milarm is good to, provided your willing to go down to the store, if you live too far away and you decide thats who you want to buy from I could probly go pick a nice norinco out, cause they do have some nice ones.
A well made Norinco is going to function for all intents and purposes as well as a Yugo, like said before its not a tack driver no matter what you do with it.
but the norinco is going to cost much less.
I guess I would go with a Norinco. Their quality is just fine for almost any of their models, especially SKS's, infact I'm a big advocate of Norinco quality; they're just cheap cuz they use slave labour and don't care about cosmetics, neither of which i have a problem with.

now, what do I do with rubber shims and a dremel too... like I said in another SKS forum, I almost always use after market stocks on SKS's, just cuz i ant stand to shoot them in their originals. SKS's are very individualistic guns, no two are the same. and new parts can be a nightmare. When putting on new stocks, I've had some that are just swimming, they're so big; they just woble around loosly. Some well placed rubber shims held in place by JB weld tighten 'em down beatifully. Dremels uses just have no limits for any gun really, I can't wven begin to list all the thigs you can do with one. I just fit a dragonov by choat onto my yugo... the channel for the spike bayonet wouldn't fit the blade bayonet on the yugo, but the dremel fixed it right up.
Me and my brother just fixed his AR180 that was wrecking all his brass with a dremel. every gun owner should own one.
I love SKS's
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Jason, just out of interest, what are these

"2 by 2 inch stinky" to indicate the center of target?

Is that like a "sticky" Post-it Note but stinkier? ;-)
 
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