SKS Lent for Moose Hunting

303carbine said:
I'll say it again...........the sks is junk. :eek: You have a better chance of killing a moose with a spear or a good size rock. I guess if your close enough and you have a 30 round mag and dump the whole works into the poor critter......what an ultra maroon.
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Thats just ridicolous..

moose have been killed with .22s before
 
I've seen the sks used on a cougar, full metal jacket through the heart and lungs, huge exit wound and wound channel, if you hit a rib the bullet will blow up quite nicely just don't try any long shots
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Then you saw an ####### breaking the law.

I've heard tell of people killing moose with a 22lr. But i wouldnt' think much of 'em as hunters.
 
for my own personal ethics i wont use less then a .30 cal round on anything that tops 300lbs i wanna make sure i know exactly where the round is gonna hit when i squeeze it off and when it gets there i dont wanna have to follow it up more then once
 
Not sure if this was mentioned already (just skimmed the thread to this point) but you might want to check the regs locally to ensure the cartridge is legal. I know that x39 isn't legal here in Alberta because the fired cartridge length is under the regulated minimum.

-M
 
SignGuy said:
for my own personal ethics i wont use less then a .30 cal round on anything that tops 300lbs i wanna make sure i know exactly where the round is gonna hit when i squeeze it off and when it gets there i dont wanna have to follow it up more then once
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7.62x39 is a .30 caliber :p

the round itself can kill all the animals Chuck Norris allowed to walk the Earth.
Been extesively used to cull elephants. The Mercury fulminate primer is very suitable for cold climates....

BUT the round was used to do all these form an AK 47 fed with long 30 round mags. And a soldier carries a minimum of 4 of those mags.... Oh, and the AKs don't jam. the pill was FMJ.

Ans SKS will rise some problems : reliability, precision..... can be overcomed if the rifle is one of the good ones.

The bullet to use for moose would have to be a tough one.
In BC I believe you have to use an expanding one.... tough luck.
If you think of using a FMJ though, please choose carefully, as not all FMJ are equal.

Do not use chinese bullets.
A good eastern-european would do.
The Romanian ones are most likely FMJ with steel core.
That will destabilize the bullet and make a fast yaw cycle - good for broadside shots.
For quarter shots, you want ot use the regular FMJ , if possible without the air pocket (russian) and the yaw will be delayed.

I do not recommend using FMJ on game , but what most people do not understand is that they are not solids. A solid behaves way different in a heavy media compared to a FMJ (military issue)

Why do we even talk about this, when a good ol' Enfield will put any moose down with CT ammo?
is the SKS the new Grail of hunting, or we try to explore each and every single way of how not to hunt?
 
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eltorro said:
Why do we even talk about this, when a good ol' Enfield will put any moose down with CT ammo?
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i use my trusty sported enfield for hunting everything i get tags for *bear deer* havent had a problem yet
 
Foxer said:
Then you saw an a**hole breaking the law.

I've heard tell of people killing moose with a 22lr. But i wouldnt' think much of 'em as hunters.
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Sorry guys My bad. I wasn't implying that using fmj was legal or a good idea,just saying what I had seen. Personally I would not hunt anything bigger than deer or couger with an sks, the light bullets blow up too easily if you hit large bones. nothing lighter than 170 grain for me:)
 
Well, I have seen moose killed with a .401 Winchester Self-Loading, a .44 Magnum, and I killed my first moose with a .257 Roberts. The Roberts blew the lungs all to snot, but that was on the second shot, the first one was deflected by a branch. After that I bought a 30-06, but it might have been deflected by brush too. I am sure that with proper bullets you can kill a moose with a 7.62X39. Hopefully it will be a 100Yd. or under shot. Hopefully you won't have to trail it and drag it out of a deep swamp. That is where the moose headed after I shot it with the .257. Walked all around the little round swamp on the bare rock searching for sign, until we heard it move in the water. Fortunately it headed out of the water and I dropped it with a neck shot. Hard to believe something could live and walk shot up that bad.
 
sks junk

Now we are going to have some #### weed try an 800 yard running shot on moose with an sks....great.:mad:
All that Commie junk should be dumped in the ocean and made into artificial reef.
 
303carbine said:
Now we are going to have some #### weed try an 800 yard running shot on moose with an sks....great.:mad:
All that Commie junk should be dumped in the ocean and made into artificial reef.
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Now I think you had smoked too much horsesh*t before you made this statement. :rolleyes:
 
rollingrock said:
:) I know from my experience that a factory 123gr will pass through a deer or a small/mid sized black bear at 100 yards with no problem.
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Are you sure a "friend" is borrowing your sks and that you're not the one filling the tag yourself. After all, you have already acheived legend status by taking 2 bears and 2 deer with an sks, what is stopping you from going after a moose. ;)

Make sure to post pics of your "friend" and his Moose after the hunt
 
load 150 grain bullet and viola instant 30-30. hope the friend who kills the moose with your rifle brings some meat when he returns it.
 
While I'm a huge fan of the SKS, and believe in my own experience, and observation of others that allot of the accuracy issues are simply operator error, I wouldn't want to use an SKS on anything larger then a Deer, and even then well within 30/30 range.

On a Moose it sounds like a wounding issue, and a cruel way to hunt, and I agree the Moose deserves better.

For Reference, with another brush gun...
30/30 with 125 grain bullet.
Velocity
2570 fps @ the muzzle
2090 fps @ 100 yards
1660 fps @ 200 yards
1320 fps @ 300 yards
1080 fps @ 400 yards

Energy
1830 ft/lbs @ the muzzle
1210 ft/lbs @ 100 yards
770 ft/lbs @ 200 yards
480 ft/lbs @ 300 yards
320 ft/lbs @ 400 yards

Traj (inches)
-2.0 @ 100 yards
-2.6 @ 200 yards
-19.9 @ 300 yards
0.0 @ 400 yards

7.62x39 Russian 123/125 grain Bullet
Velocity
2300 fps @ muzzle
2030 fps @ 100 yards
1780 fps @ 200 yards
1550 fps @ 300 yards
1350 fps @ 400 yards

Energy
1445 ft/lbs @ the muzzle
1125 ft/lbs @ 100 yards
860 ft/lbs @ 200 yards
655 ft/lbs @ 300 yards
500 ft/lbs @ 400 yards

Traj (inches)
+2.5 @ 100 yards
-2.0 @ 200 yards
-17.5 @ 300 yards
0.0 @ 400 yards

Source: Gun Digest 2006 page 233.
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IMHO each rifle is no better or worse then the other one.
For hunting I'd pack my 30/30, as it is a lighter, and less complicated rifle.
BTW Last I checked FMJ is not legal for hunting.
 
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