SKS from Cabelas, rustry trigger group

$350 for the bbq painted, rusty/pitted junk that I've seen lately? Thats hard to believe, but the newcomers will buy them I suppose.

Oddly enough my local CDN Tire has some in really good shape, painted but oiled up on the insides at least, was going to mention Westrifle as well. God bless those boys for somehow still sourcing blued sks's and ruskie 7.62x39 surplus
 
Bigrounds8mil said:
$350 for the bbq painted, rusty/pitted junk that I've seen lately? Thats hard to believe, but the newcomers will buy them I suppose.

Oddly enough my local CDN Tire has some in really good shape, painted but oiled up on the insides at least, was going to mention Westrifle as well. God bless those boys for somehow still sourcing blued sks's and ruskie 7.62x39 surplus
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Yep just got 4 blued sks in good shape from CTC last time they had a promo, $50 card for every sks I bought and got a 5% discount for buying 4!
So $199 - $10 and a $50 promo card!
This is the 1951, pretty nice, I took it apart and there was Cosmo on the inside of the stock, everything else had it washed off so I oiled it up for storage and ran a couple swabs through the bore, the first one came out very dark and sooty! It cleaned up nice and shiney!




 
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vpsalin said:
It took forever but Cabelas finaly refunded the SKS rifle.

I placed my order at Westrifle, for what appears to be a good condition 'blued' (as far as I can tell), SKS 1954. I'm going to receive it soon.

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Should have contacted North Sylva if they are the importer for Cabellas. I bought a Crappy Tire SKS last month. Took it home and found the trigger group springs were rusted pretty good. I took a picture and emailed it to North Sylva at 2pm. The next day at 11am Purolator Courier was knocking on my door to give me a new trigger group. All I asked for was new springs to. Excellent service I would say.

I went and replaced the springs myself anyways and now I have a extra trigger group.
 
I finally had a chance to take out my Westrifle, replacement SKS, and I'm VERY PLEASED. I shot four groups at 100 yards after spending a lot of time zeroing at 25 yards and the results were very impressive in my view.

In my short experience shooting the sks, the 25 yard zero only gets you on paper, near bullseye at 100 yards. You still need to give it minute adjustments for 100 yards.

My best 3 shot group was 2.75'' at 100yards. The worst group was 4 inches. All shots were on 8.5x11 paper, no wild flyers.

After my final adjustments, for my last group, all 3 shots were inside of a dessert plate size target, all this with iron sights. Through this project, I've really gained respect for what SKS can do, and also for what simple/crude iron sights are capable of. It was my very first time taking iron sights shooting seriously and it was a ton of fun. It's such a feeling of accomplishment, restoring an old rifle, adjusting the old fashioned sights etc and having such good results in the end. You won't get that same feeling with a Savage Axis rifle :nest:

The SKS is really a beater type rifle that everyone should own!
 
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