SKS woes?

Mine cost 75 bucks. I like it. It lets me shoot hundreds or rifle rounds down range. It has helped my aim with iron sights and I use it to practice shooting. It's heavy in the front so itll help you gain the right strength for steadying a firearm from the standing position. I don't mind the wood stock. #### I didn't even take the cosmoljne off the stock.

Also it's nice to take apart and tinker with it. These thing beg for noob gun smithing. If you wreck it, o well. It cost me the same as a night at the pub.
 
This is what you call a "first world" problem no? LOL

Jesus Christ it's $200! If you could afford something more I am sure we wouldn't be having this convo.

Even if you spend $150 on a new stock, you are still well under the price of any othe such gun!

That said I had an sks with a Crapco stock and it worked OK. The stock isn't bad, but it will not make the gun work any better.

I sold it as it was a pain in the ass to clean, with all the corrosive I was putting though it, and didn't want to risk bringing it camping for days at a time as I was likely not to clean it.

I will likely buy another when the registry is gone, but I sure as hell won't be putting anothe plastic stock on it. I'd rather have one of the laminate stocked ones, and be done with it.

Save your money on the tapco, and buy a scout mount and a red dot!

Far more usefull!
 
Get the SKS and a big crate of ammo. Follow up on how to dismantle and clean that sucker! There are lots of postings here and all over the net as well as a huge library of manuals available online. This way you get to know your boom stick inside out and it gets the cosmo out. Shoot the h#ll out of it as you learn, later on you will be fluent in rifles and will want an upgrade or want another rifle because 1 rifle is a lonely rifle! You can't lose!
 
My SKS jams all the time... I know what this sounds like but focus here...
When I fire the shell ejects and the new round "Doesn't seem to find the hole" It gets stuck and the bullet gets pushed more into the casing. I tried different mags, and ammo..... NOTHING!

858 all the way for me
 
I love my SKS's, got 2 from the Tula arsenal, one's a 1950 & the other is a 1952. Restocked the 52 to a tactical folder with the standart toys mounted to it & kept the 50 the way it came. For the price of the rifle and cost of ammo I don't think there's anything that comes close to an SKS for fun. The cleaning is nothing to make a big deal of, it only take minutes & you get to know the internals of the rifle while doing it. Give an SKS a half hour at the range & I think you'll want to add one your locker.
 
Ha! Cosmoline! I almost pi$$ed myself when I read this post. Last night I decided I wouldn't be shooting the norc or tok for awhile and worried about oil rubbing OFF the metal. So Wouldn't ya know it, down to the basement and VOILA! An old tub of Castrol general purpose grease! Yepper, smeared a nice film of that goop everywhere and I'm thinkin' Bob's my uncle! If ya don't like cleanin' em, ya shouldn't be shootin'em.
 
Rough deal, man. I have 2 SKS's and they both perform flawlessly. The SKS is renowned for being consistently reliable.
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Mine likes to stovepipe. And it's a ##### to get going again after it jams. The empty case gets stuck at 90 degrees, just outside the chamber, with the bolt jammed hard against it.

It takes some serious violence to get the bolt to move and get the stuck case out.
 
Dexter Morgan said:
Mine likes to stovepipe. And it's a ##### to get going again after it jams. The empty case gets stuck at 90 degrees, just outside the chamber, with the bolt jammed hard against it.

It takes some serious violence to get the bolt to move and get the stuck case out.
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Seems you might have a lemon on your hands. It can't be that hard to diagnose and fix, though. It's a pretty basic design. There are some folks here with a metric ton of knowledge for these types of problems. Maybe you should start a new thread regarding this issue. I am by no means an expert, but it seems (at face value) that the extractor is not working properly. Perhaps a little bolt maintenance will help?
 
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Ha! Cosmoline! I almost pi$$ed myself when I read this post. Last night I decided I wouldn't be shooting the norc or tok for awhile and worried about oil rubbing OFF the metal. So Wouldn't ya know it, down to the basement and VOILA! An old tub of Castrol general purpose grease! Yepper, smeared a nice film of that goop everywhere and I'm thinkin' Bob's my uncle! If ya don't like cleanin' em, ya shouldn't be shootin'em.
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I use rem lube that leaves a teflon film behind, havent owned guns for very long but it seems to work
 
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