sks pinned barrel
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Nothing. Unless you want to remove the barrel, then you will wish you had a threaded barrel...
Edit: Unless it is one of the 040 series of SKS rifles imported by Lever Arms. They were horribly mated to the receivers and had incidents of the barrels coming out. One of those rifles will need a bit of work, or would be good as a parts rifle.
Edit: Unless it is one of the 040 series of SKS rifles imported by Lever Arms. They were horribly mated to the receivers and had incidents of the barrels coming out. One of those rifles will need a bit of work, or would be good as a parts rifle.
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Even removing a threaded barrel from an SKS is no piece of cake.
The pinned barrel represents a logical evolution in the design of the SKS. No one else did it because no one else made more or used them longer as a primary arm. Russia made the same advance when it went from the third model AK47 to the AKM.
The Chinese even experimented with a fully stamped receiver with pinned barrel model, building a few thousands at factory 0138 and 0145 during the 60s. The level of machine stamping technology in the PRC was not up to Russian standards and this design was abandoned but later the Type 56 AK was built as a stamped variation (with no nomenclature change) differing somewhat from the European AKM model.
Pinned barrel Type 56 SKS are every bit as rugged as the threaded barrel version.
Interesting, but are they safe to fire, or it's more an accuracy issue?
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I have heard that there was a bad batch of sks that came out where the barrels were coming loose from pinning problems and were trash after that
like the guy above said lever arms distributed some bad ones
like the guy above said lever arms distributed some bad ones
Is welding an option? Because an SKS is not really worth taking to a gunsmith.
Welding was a method used, but I'd still have a gunsmith do it.
As I work with welders all day, and trust me when I say not all should be in that trade.
Besides which I disagree with the notion that an SKS (or any firearm) is not worth taking to a gunsmith.
Only some of the 040 series have problems. Once they discovered the problem they were fixed before they were sold. There are threads on this (look back a few years).
I bought one of the later 040 sks's. It was fixed at lever arms before I got it. I've got about 1500 rounds through it now no problems.
Calum, it's not about not caring about the particular SKS(or any rifle in general), it's just that when the gun cost me $100, I find it difficult to spend $50 or maybe another hundred to make it work good.
