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So I took apart my replacement SKS to clean it all up, and noticed where the barrel and the receiver screw together, the metal looks freshly cut, meaning no blueing. I know the barrel should be flat on top where it screws into the receiver, but is the receiver supposed to be cut flat also? Not sure I am explaining this right, hopefully the fuzzy pic can show what I mean. I figure since this is an unissued rifle it should have no spots unblued.

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Replaced by who and why?

My suspicious mind says that rifle was not shipped that way. The bare metal makes me wonder if it is where a loose barrel was pinned or punched to keep it from falling out. Lever Arms had a bad bunch that were loose and sloppy that way.

There is a flat section under the receiver for the cross bolt on the stock; a recoil shoulder sort of surface. Does this "cut" line up with that bolt? Perhaps the rifle wasn't bedding into its stock, and the receiver was ground down.
 
heavyBullet said:
So I took apart my replacement SKS to clean it all up, and noticed where the barrel and the receiver screw together, the metal looks freshly cut, meaning no blueing.
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could it be sanded instead of cut?

the reason why i say sanded bcos i bot my sks last fall from lever, it was from the same factory, made in the same year , and its has threaded barrel as yours.

while cleaning it for the first time i noticed it had rust in that area so i used sand paper to rid of it. after 300 rds, no problem. :D
 
hard to tell from the picture because your camera chose to focus on the middle and not the rear of the receiver, which is what you are trying to show us.

try and take another picture, but put the rifle lengthwise on the white background instead of lengthwise, and perhaps your camera will choose to focus better....
 
Don't worry about it as long as the crossbolt on the wood stock lock tightly
into that notch on the receiver that was ground off. There are differences in this area on SKS rifles. In most cases it is wiser to modify the crossbolt and not the receiver. Just cold blue the area and forget about it. From the picture it looks like yours is a screwed in barrel.
 
Ok...I hope these pic's come out better. As you can see in the second pic, there is a space between the crossbolt on the stock and the receiver because of this cut out, which I am guessing is not normal. Does this mean the whole thing will move when shot ? The stock still feels tight in there. I was hoping to change the stock to a synthetic one...will this screw things up. Also, its not the esthetics I am worried about, I just want to be sure its safe to shoot.

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that space between the crossbolt and the receiver dont look right , someone milled out a piece. it may feel tight now but in time it will get sloppy.

if i were you i would send it back to SIR again but other people may feel different about that.

i cant believe they didnt inspect it carefully before sending it to you.
 
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That's exactly what I suspected. Some moron mutilated your gun badly but don't worry it can be fixed. I would not shoot the rifle in this condition.
Find a welder who can TIG- weld a piece of steel where the metal was removed. It should be a tiny bit thicker than the gap and then just file it until it fits tight. Your're done:D
 
Hmmmm...who was it that said I would not get two dud's in a row...my luck ! :bangHead: And imagine...this one was hand picked and was done so to calm a pee'd off customer (me). Hope yer reading this Grouseman....might answer your question you had. I want to send this thing back AGAIN, but to be honest I do not even want to deal with these guys again, maybe I will go the welding route if I can find someone to do it.
 
heavyBullet said:
I want to send this thing back AGAIN, but to be honest I do not even want to deal with these guys again, maybe I will go the welding route if I can find someone to do it.
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If you are having problems then Send it back, and tell them to get their ####e together. :mad:
 
Well, wouldn't you know it, a customer service rep at S.I.R emailed me today, asking if everything was ok with my replacement rifle. Her timing could not have been better. So I sent back a reply and the same 2 pics I posted here. You would have thought this rifle would have been checked twice before mailing it to me, since they were trying to correct past customer service problems with me. In fact, I was told they replaced the stock on this rifle because it was cracked, so they would have seen this problem when removing the cracked one and installing the new one.
 
I suspect someone in North America did that to the rifle, as the Chinese tend to blue stuff after they grind it.

Besides which I can't understand why anyone would grind that part anyway. :confused:

I hope you get a new rifle soon.
 
ya it was puzzling for me also why it was ground off. It was not even filed nicely, it had a friggin sharp edge on top. I am just hoping they refund my $$$ so I can buy one off the EE like Curtton had suggested to me. Makes me wonder what was up with it, since the guy at S.I.R told me the reason I waited so long for the replacement rifle was that he had to get me a new stock. I mean he could have gotten a stock off of any of his SKS rifles and put it on this one. Maybe the reason I waited so long was because it had something to do with the grinding off of the receiver. I explained to the rep in my email that the cross bolt of the stock does not even contact the reciever now, and will probably get all loose after firing the rifle, not to mention I am guessing it will shoot poorly because of this.
 
hey heavybullet, when you get your refund and if you are really stuck , cant find one on EE then PM me, im willing to sell you one of my sks to fund a purchase (CZ858) since i still got cheap sks ammo....:rockOn:
 
I may take you up on that offer Curtton, thank you. :D S.I.R emailed me back today, and here it is, I thought you might enjoy the read.

I am sorry that you are not satisfied with the rifle we selected for you. As you are aware, these rifles were not purchased by us new from the factory and held in a warehouse until we suddenly decided to sell them, but from a distributor of pre-owned military supplies. They were originally designed as a basic firearm for the Chinese army, who are not known to have the highest manufacturing standards in the world. The SKS’s were also designed to be interchangeable between rifles in the field as required. These rifles are at least fifty years old, and a lot can happen to a rifle in 50 years and probably a dozen sets of hands. The only thing we have guaranteed is the same warranty we got from our supplier, and that is: that they work, if not we will exchange them for one that would.

We had them priced at the low end of any surplus rifles available in Canada, so I am not sure exactly what your expectations were.

At this point, I am not sure what it is you would like us to do. We are prepared, that if you would like, you can send the rifle back to us at your earliest convenience, and we will refund you the price of the rifle plus tax, or you can keep the rifle you have and enjoy the use of it, as it does work.

Please advise me of your decision.


Can you guess what my decision is.....its going back ASAP. The thing that is a pisser, is that I talked to them on the phone explaining exactly what I wanted, and if they could not do it for me , to just refund my money. So it is confusing as to why they sent me another SKS with problems instead of refunding me in the first place.
 
None of my many Nork SKS rifles over the years have had a lug that was ground like that... somebody tried to put the rifle in a different stock and it did not fit so they hit the crossbolt with a bench grinder... thats my take.
 
They were originally designed as a basic firearm for the Chinese army, who are not known to have the highest manufacturing standards in the world. The SKS’s were also designed to be interchangeable between rifles in the field as required. These rifles are at least fifty years old, and a lot can happen to a rifle in 50 years and probably a dozen sets of hands. The only thing we have guaranteed is the same warranty we got from our supplier, and that is: that they work, if not we will exchange them for one that would.

We had them priced at the low end of any surplus rifles available in Canada, so I am not sure exactly what your expectations were.
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I hear allot of excuses, and half truths, enough in fact to add them to my watch out list. Honestly what did they expect? :rolleyes:

Good thing they are still willing to give you a refund. :)
 
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