sks rear sight, range?

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i searched here and google, i suck at the search feature so feel free to flame me a little. the rear sight has numbered marking on it, what are they in relation to range?
 
uchi said:
i searched here and google, i suck at the search feature so feel free to flame me a little. the rear sight has numbered marking on it, what are they in relation to range?
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The number are the distance in meters, in 100m increments. The SKS is graduated from 100 to 1000m (1 to 10 on the rear sight number). On the rear sight, below the #1, there's another mark, a cyrillic caracter on a russian or can be a number on a chinese sks. That setting is a battle setting of 300m. So if you place the rear sight on the #1 position and you zero your SKS at 100m, in theory you can engage target at various range and the differents setting will take care of the bullet drop. hope that help:)
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yup makes perfect sense. thanks alot for the great bit of information. although i think they were being optimistic when they went all the way to 1000 meters, lol.
 
uchi said:
yup makes perfect sense. thanks alot for the great bit of information. although i think they were being optimistic when they went all the way to 1000 meters, lol.
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Several thousand Russians with SKS firing at you a thousand meters away has extremely effective results. One single SKS a thousand meters away has little effect or danger.


If you want to "calibrate" your sights using 125gr M43 surplus ammo, the 300 meter battle sight also zeros at 35 meters. Or 25 meters will zero you for the 100 meter setting on the rear sight. Either of these will put you in the ball park.
 
I could not find the post, but someone had stated that their sks grouped at about 8 feet at 1000 yards. I do not have easy access to a 1000 yard range so I can neither confirm or deny, but it passes my bs filter.
 
really i think to hit 1000 yards you need a level with a 45 degree bubble and then you need to shoot it. even then i just dont know if it would hurt any more than getting hit with a rock at close range :D

dont get me wrong i love my sks, both of them, theyre a great cheap fun gun to shoot, the wife can blast off rounds and not have any shoulder pain like my 30.06 r700 or 14" shotty would deliver. hell she even scored a bullseye with it first time out. pretty sure that was just luck or a ricochet off a rock, but it was still great to see her having fun :D

fiddler thanks for the info. i know when i got my russian from that #### cheese at more guns it was zeroed for who knows what. at 100y i had to aim at the ground infront of the target to get it at the top of the paper. ive got her set to 100 now and its actually somewhat accurate to 100, even with my 4x leapers scope and bolt cover scope mount thats developed some play. itll still shoot a couple inch group for me at 100. nice thing about this gun is its got a bit more kick than a 22 but not enough to make shooting not fun after 40 rounds :)

im planning on taking this thing out to the range next weekend and seeing if i can ring the gong at 200y with it. i dont see it being an issue, ive got enough ammo that i can keep trying till i hit it. lol

thanks for the help and the replies fellas :)
 
i did some reading through this post and because it has pictures its helped me along.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=614805

figure the gong is big enough that even with the bullet drop i can still manage to rock the gong. the little scope i have has mildots on it too so ill feel like a pro making mildot references around the wife if she comes with me to play next weekend. speaking like feeling like a pro, anyone have any other big words i can throw around with her? lol

sorry its just after 7 am and im flippin wired for some reason, dont have any sugar or caffeine in my system, just wired for some reason
 
uchi said:
i did some reading through this post and because it has pictures its helped me along.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=614805

figure the gong is big enough that even with the bullet drop i can still manage to rock the gong. the little scope i have has mildots on it too so ill feel like a pro making mildot references around the wife if she comes with me to play next weekend. speaking like feeling like a pro, anyone have any other big words i can throw around with her? lol

sorry its just after 7 am and im flippin wired for some reason, dont have any sugar or caffeine in my system, just wired for some reason
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sks has been documented to have this side effect....:rolleyes: I'm sure you'll hit the gong, I can with iron sights and I'm not a great shot;)
 
uchi said:
fiddler thanks for the info.
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An SKS is generally much more fun than it is accurate. If you can get 4 inch groups at 100 yards, you're doing pretty good. Some rifles shoot a bit better , and many more shoot much worse. SKS is so popular because it has an unusually high sh*ts n giggles factor.

I personally dismiss stories about grouping at 1000 yards, where ever they come from. However, if anyone feels they have a rifle that shoots much better than average, they should try some of the PRVI commercial loads. They are premium loads coming into the country at a medium price and have incredible accuracy when fired in bolt actions.
 
uchi said:
really i think to hit 1000 yards you need a level with a 45 degree bubble and then you need to shoot it. even then i just dont know if it would hurt any more than getting hit with a rock at close range :D
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Actually, you don't need to put it at 45 degrees... just put it on the 1000m setting...

Older guns have sights that can be set to even longer distances. The Mosin-Nagant goes up to 2000m. Having thousands of men shooting in the general direction of the enemy is not very up-to-date doctrine, but it used to be. It's more like long range suppressive fire. And it's bound to hit someone if done with enough men.
 
It was called volley fire and I believe most armed forces began shelving that type of warfare in the late 1800's/early 1900's. With enough soldiers firing on one group target it could be very effective, much like in the movie "300" when Persian arrows rained on the Spartans like a storm
 
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