What percent of SKS rifles are "more accurate"

The differences in surplus ammo is pretty extreme. I have some Romanian surplus from 1976 and it heats the gun up real fast and accuracy is pretty much none existent even at 50 yards. I took a thermal camera to the range one day to see how hot it would get doing fast 5 shot intervals and measuring the temp between mags. After 40 rounds the temp was 57 degrees and the spread was all over the target. Another batch I have, not sure the year or country it's from, the gun doesn't get nearly as hot and it shoots pretty consistent. There was a guy at the range one day that was reloading for his and at 100 yards he was getting groups between 2-3 inches with the batch he was testing that day.
 
I will do my part the first of the week. My daughter has a weekend long softball tournament I can't miss.
It's going to be fun.
Thanks DT471 for getting this kicked off.

This will be a good chance for all of you guys to beat the crap out of me for all my mouthing off :)
I'm not a great shot and brutally honest so there will be no cheating from me.
 
dannyp said:
I will do my part the first of the week. My daughter has a weekend long softball tournament I can't miss.
It's going to be fun.
Thanks DT471 for getting this kicked off.

This will be a good chance for all of you guys to beat the crap out of me for all my mouthing off :)
I'm not a great shot and brutally honest so there will be no cheating from me.
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I like your attitude! I will participate with the same handicaps.:d
 
Gatehouse said:
I think there are more 6MOA shooters than 6MOA SKS rifles. I'd suggest average accuracy is about half of that
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I'd have to agree with this.

The iron sights on the SKS are pretty rudimentary, and are difficult to use. That being said, with a good shooter behind it, you can achieve some reasonably good groupings. 3-4MOA is likely average. With a good scope mount like a magwedge kwikrail on an SKS with a decent trigger, half that is possible.

A few years ago at an old quarry, a few friends and I were shooting SKS's at 300m on a 13" steel plate. Results were quite good, with an 80-90% hit rate. This is slightly less than a 4MOA target, and about what the effective range of the SKS was intended to be.
 
Brutus said:
I would have to personally see that to believe that.
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I've done it a few times with an SKS mounted with a Magwedge rail and 4x Vomz scope.

The problem is it would not do it consistently. Realistically it was a 3 MOA rifle.

Now, if the stock were bedded, and a trigger job done, along with some good reloads, maybe it would be possible, but that's a lot of work to make an SKS shoot as well as a Savage Axis.
 
Joe549 said:
The differences in surplus ammo is pretty extreme. I have some Romanian surplus from 1976 and it heats the gun up real fast and accuracy is pretty much none existent even at 50 yards. I took a thermal camera to the range one day to see how hot it would get doing fast 5 shot intervals and measuring the temp between mags. After 40 rounds the temp was 57 degrees and the spread was all over the target. Another batch I have, not sure the year or country it's from, the gun doesn't get nearly as hot and it shoots pretty consistent. There was a guy at the range one day that was reloading for his and at 100 yards he was getting groups between 2-3 inches with the batch he was testing that day.
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I noticed this to with the romanian stuff. It make sense why companies were blowing it out for like 200$, the cz, ukrainian and polish stuff is great tho. The lacquer on it is caked on to and makes a mess. Im glad I sold it all.

The romanian stuff has been a source of allot of my frustrations and maybe just coincidence but my VZ broke after 20 rounds of it.
 
Ar180shooter said:
Now, if the stock were bedded, and a trigger job done, along with some good reloads, maybe it would be possible, but that's a lot of work to make an SKS shoot as well as a Savage Axis.
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Yes but a nice condition sks is way more interesting than a savage axis, nothing against the axis by the way. I just appreciate the old sks, spending some time accurizing them is fun when results are apparent.
 
If you're getting 6" groups I don't think it's the gun's fault. I've had a few of these rifles myself and 3-4" groups at 100 sounds more realistic to me. That sounds like a sight or stock issue rather than a hardware issue unless the thing has been allowed to corrode like a mother*****r. People that don't do their part are probably responsible for that reputation.
 
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