Trouble loading 5th round into SKS

[RadioRoz]

Whilst stuffing my Chinese (sorry, ianwd's) SKS with a stripper clip to try to enter the honour match with some targets in January (I know, I know, we've only been out a couple times since because of the *%# cold and we've only been taking out the AR, Nagant, and M14!), I couldn't load the full clip of 5. I could get to 4 no problem, or split the clip between 3 and 2 rounds, but my groups sucked due to the interruption in momentum.

Anything that could be causing this? It was ok in the summer, so maybe it was a temperature thing? It was only -8 at the most.

Thanks for any suggestions...

 

[Curtton]

Anything that could be causing this? It was ok in the summer, so maybe it was a temperature thing? It was only -8 at the most.

Thanks for any suggestions...

if it work in the summer than i suggest you clean the mag first and check it again indoors by using empty casings if still wont fit the 5th casing or it does fits very snuggly then you need to adjust the block.

dont know what kind of a block you got so i cant suggest how to. maybe you post a pic of the block . mine has a pin at the bottom of the mag, in my case i would file the top of the pin, very little at a time.

 

[Bing]

Yeah, take a demerl and file down a bit of the block at the time.

DON"T DO IT TOO MUCH, else you will probably find ur self in alot of trouble.