Spectre Ballistics Light Practical Carbine - NR Receiver Set

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We covered this in the other thread. Our first batch is going to be 15 to 20 units, which is small. We have opted for a small batch initially to get rifles in your hands quickly, and to help us test our production methods. We have extended the size of our first run of uppers, simply because we're waiting for engraving bits for our lowers.

Moving forward we are going to start doing larger batches to minimize down time due to changing out fixturing on the CNC and as we bring more machines online.
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The 2nd way larger batch is about 1/3 done already so hopefully not long.

Also as soon as we can we are adding another CNC. We need to finish renovating our shop and running power. We have plans of adding up to 4 more machines.
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Great to see an Alberta company doing well! With the expanded capacity, would you be interested in making alternate chassis for SKSes, or would that be too risky in the current climate?
 
Ustauk said:
Great to see an Alberta company doing well! With the expanded capacity, would you be interested in making alternate chassis for SKSes, or would that be too risky in the current climate?
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No joke, if well made and the price is right, I would definitely take at least three. Perhaps more.
 
Ustauk said:
Great to see an Alberta company doing well! With the expanded capacity, would you be interested in making alternate chassis for SKSes, or would that be too risky in the current climate?
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A CNC machined chassis is utterly wasted on an SKS and would be too expensive.

We do have a lot of projects we would like to do.
 
A Saskatchewan company made a 3D printed chassis for the SKS, which used some AR parts like the stock, trigger group, and magzines, but according to some forum members, they're a bit sketchy, and they wanted a fair bit of money for it. If someone who know's what they're doing can make a nice, durable product at a reasonable price that does not require permanent alteration to the SKS, they would likely do quite well.
 
Ustauk said:
A Saskatchewan company made a 3D printed chassis for the SKS, which used some AR parts like the stock, trigger group, and magzines, but according to some forum members, they're a bit sketchy, and they wanted a fair bit of money for it. If someone who know's what they're doing can make a nice, durable product at a reasonable price that does not require permanent alteration to the SKS, they would likely do quite well.
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We aren't doing an SKS chassis. We can't do it for a price people would want to pay. There's no point putting a $500+ chassis on an SKS.

They system you are referring to replaced the SKS trigger with an AR trigger. That change effectively deleted the out of battery safety of the SKS tilting bolt.
 
SpectreBallistics said:
We aren't doing an SKS chassis. We can't do it for a price people would want to pay. There's no point putting a $500+ chassis on an SKS.

They system you are referring to replaced the SKS trigger with an AR trigger. That change effectively deleted the out of battery safety of the SKS tilting bolt.
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Thanks for the clarification! Looking forward to whatever other projects you may have planned :)
 
SpectreBallistics said:
The 2nd way larger batch is about 1/3 done already so hopefully not long.

Also as soon as we can we are adding another CNC. We need to finish renovating our shop and running power. We have plans of adding up to 4 more machines.
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I'm super-stoked for this. I was in early but unsure if early enough for first batch. Love watching the progress/pics/etc on IG. I can't wait to build this thing and get some rounds downrange...and take it innawoods.

(btw, one cannot go onto any Cdn gun online community without seeing something about a damn SKS. Every. Damn. Day.)
 
“Hey thats a really cool msr style reciever set you making, any chance you can make a chassis for a 70 year old $200 sloppy toleranced soviet carbine?”

I swear anytime someone brings a new product out people want to know if the company will make something completely unrelated.
 
When will you people accept the fact the SKS cannot be fixed or even marginally improved ??? It is 75 year old design for illiterate peasant who could barely tie his shoe strings and has never seen running water. It served it's purpose, it used to be cheap, it has the accuracy of MOA of a barn, it's simple, needs very little maintenance while incredibly reliable and will shoot anything you insert into the chamber. A crow bar is a fine enough tool for its disassembly. If you run out of ammo, the stock has been built in such way so it could be used as a club. That's it, live with it, it's as good as it gets and spending more money on "improvements" is an equivalent of Liberal federal budget, a.k.a. a universe black hole.
 
IMR4320 said:
When will you people accept the fact the SKS cannot be fixed or even marginally improved ??? It is 75 year old design for illiterate peasant who could barely tie his shoe strings and has never seen running water. It served it's purpose, it used to be cheap, it has the accuracy of MOA of a barn, it's simple, needs very little maintenance while incredibly reliable and will shoot anything you insert into the chamber. A crow bar is a fine enough tool for its disassembly. If you run out of ammo, the stock has been built in such way so it could be used as a club. That's it, live with it, it's as good as it gets and spending more money on "improvements" is an equivalent of Liberal federal budget, a.k.a. a universe black hole.
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Winner winner chicken dinner :cheers:
 
Just to clarify for everyone....

1. We're not going to make a precision rifle chassis for the SKS. It wouldn't make the rifle better and you won't like the price.

2. We're not going to make a new SKS. Nobody wants a $3000 SKS.

3. This a thread about the Light Practical Carbine! FYI, we're almost done uppers for the 2nd batch, then it's onto lowers.

4. If you really want to improve your SKS, get one of our AK style magazine releases. They're on sale even! https://spectreballistics.com/sks/26-spectre-push-forward-sks-magazine-release.html
 
IMR4320 said:
When will you people accept the fact the SKS cannot be fixed or even marginally improved ??? It is 75 year old design for illiterate peasant who could barely tie his shoe strings and has never seen running water. It served it's purpose, it used to be cheap, it has the accuracy of MOA of a barn, it's simple, needs very little maintenance while incredibly reliable and will shoot anything you insert into the chamber. A crow bar is a fine enough tool for its disassembly. If you run out of ammo, the stock has been built in such way so it could be used as a club. That's it, live with it, it's as good as it gets and spending more money on "improvements" is an equivalent of Liberal federal budget, a.k.a. a universe black hole.
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In my ~20 years on internet forums of all kinds, this is legitimately one of the best posts I've ever seen. Well done, sir. ��
 
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