SKS's First Firing in the Free World

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Hi Fellow Gunmen,

I just finished trying to sight in my "new" SKS and I thought maybe I could pick some brains out there, because lots of questions were popping up while I was there at the range alone today.

1: is there a well organized, consolidated resource online for this weapon that could be suggested to me

2: I was using Federal Fusion ammo and the ejected casings were flying WAY up into the air (20ft) hitting the roof and bouncing down on me. Several had big dents right on the edge of the necking on several of the warm casings I retrieved and inspected. Is this normal?

3: After letting the bolt slam down to load a round, I opened it up and looked at the primer and noticed a fairly good impression of the firing pin. Normal you say?

4: How do you adjust windage, because is shoots the right quite a bit and I'm scared that the front pin's adjustment would be too crude of a change and I'd end up worse…any hints brethren?

thanks
 
They eject high and far!

It has a free floating firing pin. It will slam against the primer when shutting the bolt but without a hammer behind it, it's not enough to set off the cartridge. This applies to military hard primer ammo. Some commercial stuff might be weaker.

There is a sight tool to push the front post over either way and up and down the pin to adjust wind age and zero for elevation.
 
Rustick said:
Hi Fellow Gunmen,

I just finished trying to sight in my "new" SKS and I thought maybe I could pick some brains out there, because lots of questions were popping up while I was there at the range alone today.

1: is there a well organized, consolidated resource online for this weapon that could be suggested to me

2: I was using Federal Fusion ammo and the ejected casings were flying WAY up into the air (20ft) hitting the roof and bouncing down on me. Several had big dents right on the edge of the necking on several of the warm casings I retrieved and inspected. Is this normal?

3: After letting the bolt slam down to load a round, I opened it up and looked at the primer and noticed a fairly good impression of the firing pin. Normal you say?

4: How do you adjust windage, because is shoots the right quite a bit and I'm scared that the front pin's adjustment would be too crude of a change and I'd end up worse…any hints brethren?

thanks
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Welcome to the SKS crowd! In answer to your questions: 1. Come on over to the ''Red Rifle'' forum here on CGN where all the SKS enthusiast hang.
The stickys have plenty of helpful information.
2. Yes, some SKS tend to eject hard and high and yes they tend to come back and hit you when under a roof. I think of it as distraction training.
3. Yes the firing pin may leave an imprint on an unfired primer on closing of the bolt, especially on non-surplus. Make sure to remove and clean firing pin.
4. There is front sight adjustment tool that looks like a small, beefy ''C'' clamp and is available at most shooting stores. Del Selins sells them for 8$
 
The indent in the primer after chambering a cartridge through firing of the rifle is just the inertia of the free floating firing pin lightly striking the primer face when the cartridge is fed into the chamber and the bolt slams into battery.
It's perfectly normal.
The brass ejecting hard is perfectly normal for SKS (almost all Soviet semi auto weapon systems, even pistols ie TT33 throws cases almos as far as amn SKS) roughly translated that means that thing is overgassed by design to make it cycle no matter what conditions or rough state the weapon may be in. It makes it very reliable.
The front post can be drifted left or right to adjust windage. There is a tool you can buy but I used a punch and a hammer on my old SKS's to just tap it over to where it needed to be.
 
Thanks for the insightful info! Have you guys ever heard of easily obtained solid copper ammo for this round? I want to hunt food with it. And have already been exposed to lots of lead in my life. Lots of deer walking around here.

Cheers and thanks again to all respondents!
 
Good advice all above, the only things I would add is when cleaning the bolt, make sure the firing pin rattles. Always do the trigger safety test when you clean it, and BEFORE you go to the range with your new front sight tool oil the crap out of the sight lug and knock it back and forth a few times with a flat punch to make sure its going to move. They tend to seize up after sitting unused for decades. If you don't do this first, you will probably break your sight tool.
 
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