"Super grade" sks . Bad joke ?

I think the quality of the SKSs has dropped quite a bit in the past year or so . I often look at the ones at Canadian Tire , and they seem to be all BBQ paint now . I think it would pay off for someone to select in person as SKSs are still great value for the money at between 175 and 200.....
 
Had my ex army buddy pick my Canadian Tire 200.00 SKS. He did the bore light thing pulled the trigger assembly.

It's just a shooter for me and my son, I did pull off the bayonet, add a bipod, RPK brake, a few 5/30 metal mags, and a slip on butt stock extender.

We also stripped the stock and did a bunch of tung oil coats.

We like it, and it shoots fine. Personally I would want to pick thru them or buy from a CGN member.

 
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biker_boy said:
Looks good, like how the stock came out.
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Thanks, my son said the gun smelled weird, so I wiped the metal down, wood still smelled like surplus so we did a father son stock refinish.

Now it smells like my other guns, not worried about the stock as not really a collectors type of gun.:)
 
Thats a cool looking sks .
So anyone have any tips for cleaning the cosmoline off ? Other than a bath in just any old solvent . Acetone ok ? Anyone find something that works better than others ? How about just soaking all the parts in gas and taking soft bristle brush to it ? Then another bath in wd40 .The cosmo sure stinks . I wanna get rid of every little trace of it .
 
Slimegreencat said:
Thats a cool looking sks .
So anyone have any tips for cleaning the cosmoline off ? Other than a bath in just any old solvent . Acetone ok ? Anyone find something that works better than others ? How about just soaking all the parts in gas and taking soft bristle brush to it ? Then another bath in wd40 .The cosmo sure stinks . I wanna get rid of every little trace of it .
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Wipe off and bore swab out as much excess Cosmo as you can while doing a complete disassembly including bolt internals. Then use boiling water and Simple Green and give it a thorough cleaning. Use gloves to protect your hands from the boiling water. Be careful of the wood on the gas tube. Use a funnel to prevent clouding of the finish from the boiling water contact. Blow off all parts after rinsing with the boiling water with an air lace and air compressor or use a hair drier if you don't have that. Then oil thoroughly and leave it overnight. Then wipe off excess the next day and reassemble and go shooting. You can sweat the stock on a warm day and keep wiping the excess cosmoline as it comes out, but that can take time. Wiping the stock with linseed oil will keep the smell down though in the meantime.
 
To clean the Comsoline off the SKS what setting should I keep the dishwasher on! ??
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Good post above though!
 
It is probably a macho cliche to say that I like the smell of cosmoline, but it has come to represent these rifles for me.
So what I do now is to just do a really good job of wiping external surfaces and using a solvent on the internals before
re-oiling with CLP. Do any of you others do it that way? Are we just being lazy? Or is this actually good preservation?:confused:
 
Robert Nicholson said:
It is probably a macho cliche to say that I like the smell of cosmoline, but it has come to represent these rifles for me.
So what I do now is to just do a really good job of wiping external surfaces and using a solvent on the internals before
re-oiling with CLP. Do any of you others do it that way? Are we just being lazy? Or is this actually good preservation?:confused:
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Cosmoline was to preserve it while in a salt mine somewhere in Russia or Ukraine. If you want to use it, clean off the cosmoline properly and oil it for use like any other rifle. Definitely cosmoline left in the internals is asking for trouble or malfunction at the least, dangerous or hazardous to life and health at the worst. Cosmo is for storage. Gun oil is for use. The point is to clean it to make it safe for use. You can take that to whatever point you are comfortable with. I like to do things thoroughly. Just my style. But others may take a different approach.
 
I get pissed off to hear these places can act like they know something. Then to charge extra for a poor representation is pretty bad. On the other hand ,maybe buddy at the store really likes BBQ paint and he hand picked it just for you.
I wonder what shooter class looks like. Lol
 
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In my experience the retailers don't have the time nor manpower to go through large stocks of military surplus. It's always a gamble unless you have met the seller and have some kind of established relationship.
 
Then they shouldn't advertise with price differences for different grades. There is no real standard anyway. I'd buy the cheapest model. That way you're not disappointed with SuperGrade (prob the same as basement sks anyway)
 
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When the SuperGrade - B Grade thing is handled well, it results in a very nice difference. I love my SuperGrades with their blued metal and
existing cartouches with no ###'s and I also appreciate my lesser quality SKS' that I don't mind treating roughly.;)
 
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