A lot of great looking rifles here. Excellent job. I am not a collector myself and am after performance 1st, and looks 2nd. Here is my Russian 1954 SKS.
This carbine has an ATI Strikeforce stock with adjustable/collapsible butt stock. Choate scope mount, Tapco 5/20 rnd mags, NCStar muzzle brake, Bulldog 2 bipod, SunOptics reflex sights, and a flashlight mounted using a home-made rail mount made out of a spare laser sight mount and some steel. And this is just what's on the outside.
I am looking for performance above all else. That is why I chose a 1954 Russian SKS which comes with a chromed barrel and a clicky-type safety (and also because I'm Russian
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I have also done the following mods:
Re-crowned the barrel
Murray's spring loaded firing pin
"Drop free" bolt mod to allow inserting and extracting mags with closed bolt
Reworked the sear for positive engagement and other trigger assembly components for lighter and smoother trigger
Milled out the ejection port for shell deflection at 3 o'clock
DBL mag adapter and DBL mags
Improvised night sights with glow in the dark compound, since the Tritium night sights for the SKS are elusive, almost non-existant
Cut off the bayonet and used the endpiece to hold the cleaning rod in place
AK-style mag release as seen in the pics
Self-made sling
The only thing I'm missing is a buttstock pouch, soon to be added however. All work done by me.
I'll be keeping the cleaning rod attached, cleaning kit, and all the necessary tools in the pouch to have the ability to strip and clean the rifle in the field. I even stuffed a bunch of cleaning patches into the hollow buttstock tube, lol.
This is my SHTF rifle which is why I modified it the way I did. To be used at a max of 300m-350m where the cartridge is most effective. Blind the zombies with the bright flashlight and then shoot in the head while they are disoriented, quickly switch mags, repeat. Performance first and the rest comes after. I think I have had waaaaay too much fun modding this SKS.
