SKS Mods / Upgrades

warrenlikesboats said:
Sounds like good choices to me !

Id suggest a drill & tap rail to support your optics, and on top of that maybe the Primary Arms 7.62x39 4x optic ( i have no experience with this optic though). Hical.ca can thread you SKS muzzle for AK brakes for $69, it wont be perfect, but it will be far better than all the clamp on / pin brakes. Id also recommend the sevensixtwo systems mag release, it will require you to mod your mags slightly, but it is hands down one of the best mag releases on the Canadian market.

This is Sasha, My current take on a "modern SKS" It features all the mods I suggested except I went with the Russian side mount optic. Which id only recommend if you really enjoy the added "Russian touch".

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How accurate are your shots with this gun and scope? What would you say your max range is?
 
With good ammo, Id say 5 shots within 2.5" @100yrds (naturally, 3 shots is much smaller). My Archangel stock does have about 1/8" forward and backwards play in it though... people say having a gun bedded tight is key to good accuracy so I intend to lose the Archangel stock and build a Laminate SVD stock this winter, and bed the action. Next summer I'll have to do a in depth accuracy test. As the gun is now, im often comfortable at engaging coyotes out to 250yrds (never had to chance though, the coyotes are too afraid maybe haha)). But everything its killed so far has be 100yrd and under.
 
warrenlikesboats said:
With good ammo, Id say 5 shots within 2.5" @100yrds (naturally, 3 shots is much smaller). My Archangel stock does have about 1/8" forward and backwards play in it though... people say having a gun bedded tight is key to good accuracy so I intend to lose the Archangel stock and build a Laminate SVD stock this winter, and bed the action. Next summer I'll have to do a in depth accuracy test. As the gun is now, im often comfortable at engaging coyotes out to 250yrds (never had to chance though, the coyotes are too afraid maybe haha)). But everything its killed so far has be 100yrd and under.
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Do you believe the accuracy cap is due to your skill or the gun itself? ( With the scope are you aiming better than it can shoot? )

Also the bedding is good, I just spent 2 and a half hours doing that to my mosin nagant.
 
Gahou said:
Do you believe the accuracy cap is due to your skill or the gun itself? ( With the scope are you aiming better than it can shoot? )

Also the bedding is good, I just spent 2 and a half hours doing that to my mosin nagant.
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id say Im capable of holding it within a inch @100yrds, so the inaccuracy would mostly be the gun. If you can get a SKS to pattern 5 shots within 2" @100yrds, id say your pretty golden.

You bedded your Archangel stock ? or just your mosin ? I looked into bedded the Archangel stock, but people keep telling me getting a bedding compound to stick reliably to polymer is very difficult.
 
What do the wolf upgrade springs actually do? Do they affect the trigger?
Im interested in doing a trigger upgrade. That coupled with the fine front sight post would be an awesome improvement.
A peep rear sight leaf that retains the elevation adjustment would be cool as well.
 
The Wolff springs reduce the loading on the sear, allowing a lighter trigger pull.
Some say that it might cause misfires with the heavy milsurp berdan primers, but I've gone through hundreds of chinese corrosive rounds without a single click. All boom.
And that's with a spring loaded firing pin too.
Check out hical.ca for peep replacement of the rear.
Don't forget, your front post still has elevation, and the SKS is really not much more than a CQB carbine, so the longer range settings are of little use.
If you really want the cat's whisker, consider the Tech Sight 200.
 
As far as peep sights go, forget the rear sight block mounted ones. Both the Williams and HiCal ones were worse than the stock sight. The Tech Sight is the only peep that is an upgrade from stock, in my experience.
 
PinkyPlinker said:
As far as peep sights go, forget the rear sight block mounted ones. Both the Williams and HiCal ones were worse than the stock sight. The Tech Sight is the only peep that is an upgrade from stock, in my experience.
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I never felt the Tech sights when I had them. Maybe I just had to get used to them anyhow I ordered the hical sight to give them a try.
 
Bubba Yugga said:
The Wolff springs reduce the loading on the sear, allowing a lighter trigger pull.
Some say that it might cause misfires with the heavy milsurp berdan primers, but I've gone through hundreds of chinese corrosive rounds without a single click. All boom.
And that's with a spring loaded firing pin too.
Check out hical.ca for peep replacement of the rear.
Don't forget, your front post still has elevation, and the SKS is really not much more than a CQB carbine, so the longer range settings are of little use.
If you really want the cat's whisker, consider the Tech Sight 200.
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Had a TECH 200, got in the way of field strip and cleans. Went to the Mojo sight, the Hi Cal Peep. Happy now.
 
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