SKS: Optics, sights & mounts.... update feb 16, 2010
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Peter_koutz
CGN Regular
- Location
- Durham region ontario
So many choices and just so confused as to what kind of mount to put on mine
+Just a quick note - I have a Barska 4-9 x 40 red/green reticle with receiver cover see-thru mount. Forum won't allow me to post pics like most other forums. Bought this at Cabella's about 5 year ago ( $160 now) and holds zero still! I had to gently bend the 'ears' to make tight but now OK. See-thru for irons and cheek riser needed for scope. Mounted on 'light refurb' 1951 Tula.
Forum is being a very bad boy, is he?
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/198167-Tutorial-How-to-Post-Pictures
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Barska Recvr cover scope mount
Here's the 1951 Tula with the Barska 3-9 Scope - high mount combo. I don't recall what the error message I was getting said, but evidently it's gone now. As I said, the receiver mount was finicky getting adjusted, but it's held zero for several hundred rounds. Folks need to be especially careful getting the receiver cover tight, but this one is well made. I've seen some (N***** ) that look really shoddy. This one allows iron sight use so one needs to have a cheek riser for proper scope viewing when shooting offhand.
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Here's the 1951 Tula with the Barska 3-9 Scope - high mount combo. I don't recall what the error message I was getting said, but evidently it's gone now. As I said, the receiver mount was finicky getting adjusted, but it's held zero for several hundred rounds. Folks need to be especially careful getting the receiver cover tight, but this one is well made. I've seen some (N***** ) that look really shoddy. This one allows iron sight use so one needs to have a cheek riser for proper scope viewing when shooting offhand.
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Yo homes, homies, guys come on... it’s an SKS no matter what you do to it and how many hundreds of dollars you spend on the thing it will never ever be a tack driver... that’s ever.. just shoot the darn thing as is with the original sights and be done with it...4” at 100 meters is dam good for a $200 rifle...
- Location
- Richmond, BC
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PinkyPlinker
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Kenora, ON
Junk. The MagWedge Raven Eye is much better.
appreciate the heads up !
I’m a little curious but bypassing the iron sights in general has anyone used or tried this mounting system Searched the thread didn’t find anything maybe I missed it the Midwest industry’s mini red dot mount.
That mount was discontinued a few year's ago now.
NcStar has discontinued the one SKS mount they made which mightn't have been completely awful. The low-profile receiver cover mount with the rail which sat flat on top, often sold along with the NcStar micro red dot reflex sight, is no longer being manufactured. I need to scramble to pick one up while I still can.
I think I might be able to get the thing to hold zero (I can do without disassembling it regularly; I'm happy with just cleaning the gas system after shooting corrosive, and blindly dumping oil into the rest). I don't want to do any drilling or tapping, and I want to be able to keep the iron sights and load with chargers. What I might do to keep the receiver cover snug is to cut a slot in the lug where the take-down pin passes through so that I can fit a square nut in there, and replace the take-down pin with a bolt; this should allow me to pull the receiver cover tight to one side without having to tap the receiver. Does this sound like it might work?
I think I might be able to get the thing to hold zero (I can do without disassembling it regularly; I'm happy with just cleaning the gas system after shooting corrosive, and blindly dumping oil into the rest). I don't want to do any drilling or tapping, and I want to be able to keep the iron sights and load with chargers. What I might do to keep the receiver cover snug is to cut a slot in the lug where the take-down pin passes through so that I can fit a square nut in there, and replace the take-down pin with a bolt; this should allow me to pull the receiver cover tight to one side without having to tap the receiver. Does this sound like it might work?
Hey Bacon-S
Your idea may work, would hold tight I guess, but makes cleaning a chore. Check out sksboards.c om and search for that mod you described. Someone had posted a thread about doing that. There are lots of other mods there to improve the SKS. But you need to at least flush the barrel and guts with Windex (with ammonia) to counteract the corrosive primer salts, then lots of oil. Brushing to get out fouling helps lots too.
Search 'Vote for David' for more tips, too.
I had the 'Combo' set-up from Cabelas (http s://www.cabelas.ca/product/9101 ) and made it work by 'bending the ears' of the receiver cover. Put one ear in a vise and gently but firmly bend so the side rails fit snugly in the receiver rails. (pic below) The cover that comes with the set also has 'see-thru' below the scope to use irons. I had to file-open the pic-rail to move the scope back a bit and could just barely use the strippers. The 3-9 is plenty for the SKS. I had to put on cheek rest to raise up to see scope properly but the set held zero well. I had a 51 Tula (matching except mag) and could do about 3-4" at 100 yds. That's about the best you can expect w/o major gunsmithing mods. I painted the front sight pin and pin cover and rear sight face with white appliance touch-up, then covered that with yellow hi-liter! Really visible in most light.
I had done the sear 'trim & polish', light sear spring from MCarbo, 'super-polished' all the internal sear rails. that got the trigger down to about 5-6 pounds -I kept original hammer spring since I shot mostly milsurp. I also put a bit of adhesive felt pad on the trigger guard to stop over-travel - it also kept me from getting my finger pinched there after firing!!
Squaring off the ejection port (pic below) changes ejection-direction to close to 3-0'clock instead of 12-1 o'clock and then drilling some small holes in the gas tube to 'shorten' ejection distance by reducing pressure on the action. Those mods (from sksboards) kept empties within 8-10 feet to my right instead of 20-30 feet. Made range clean-up much easier
I had some posts about my mods under user = Fasteddie01 , but I sold the SKS back in spring so don't go there often.
Update: I bought a '51 Tula in Tapco in early Aug-2020. Did the sear polish, and ejection port (compare angle of pic 2 & 3) mods and lube sear/hammer and rails w/synth grease.
good luck with your mods,
Buck
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Your idea may work, would hold tight I guess, but makes cleaning a chore. Check out sksboards.c om and search for that mod you described. Someone had posted a thread about doing that. There are lots of other mods there to improve the SKS. But you need to at least flush the barrel and guts with Windex (with ammonia) to counteract the corrosive primer salts, then lots of oil. Brushing to get out fouling helps lots too.
Search 'Vote for David' for more tips, too.
I had the 'Combo' set-up from Cabelas (http s://www.cabelas.ca/product/9101 ) and made it work by 'bending the ears' of the receiver cover. Put one ear in a vise and gently but firmly bend so the side rails fit snugly in the receiver rails. (pic below) The cover that comes with the set also has 'see-thru' below the scope to use irons. I had to file-open the pic-rail to move the scope back a bit and could just barely use the strippers. The 3-9 is plenty for the SKS. I had to put on cheek rest to raise up to see scope properly but the set held zero well. I had a 51 Tula (matching except mag) and could do about 3-4" at 100 yds. That's about the best you can expect w/o major gunsmithing mods. I painted the front sight pin and pin cover and rear sight face with white appliance touch-up, then covered that with yellow hi-liter! Really visible in most light.
I had done the sear 'trim & polish', light sear spring from MCarbo, 'super-polished' all the internal sear rails. that got the trigger down to about 5-6 pounds -I kept original hammer spring since I shot mostly milsurp. I also put a bit of adhesive felt pad on the trigger guard to stop over-travel - it also kept me from getting my finger pinched there after firing!!
Squaring off the ejection port (pic below) changes ejection-direction to close to 3-0'clock instead of 12-1 o'clock and then drilling some small holes in the gas tube to 'shorten' ejection distance by reducing pressure on the action. Those mods (from sksboards) kept empties within 8-10 feet to my right instead of 20-30 feet. Made range clean-up much easier
I had some posts about my mods under user = Fasteddie01 , but I sold the SKS back in spring so don't go there often.
Update: I bought a '51 Tula in Tapco in early Aug-2020. Did the sear polish, and ejection port (compare angle of pic 2 & 3) mods and lube sear/hammer and rails w/synth grease.
good luck with your mods,
Buck
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