which sks is the best

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i recently bought a norinco sks(approx 3 wks ago). from the first shot for the first time i am now looking for another. so i went on the internet to research my sks to my surprise there are many sks. my question is, which one is the best.


p.s sks rock's(hopfully there is an sks addiction support group):ar15:
 
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welcome to the sks forum.

firstly, go to calum thread and answer whether you got your cleaning kit in the butt stock,:D, click below. i believe he is taking a poll.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=169852

secondly, for additional info go to the stickies on the sks forum.

thirdly, i dont know which is better , yugo or russian , but i do want one of each so i could end up with a nice threesome:rockOn:
 
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josh1976 said:
I like my yugo w/grenade launcher. Mostly because it's cool looking. Also, it is built much more heavy-duty than the chinese I have.
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it better be better build cos i cost over twice as much. but even if im willing to pay for it, they dont seams to be any avail. same goes for the russian.:mad: i have seen one or two on EE but it always gone mighty quick.
 
agreed i love my chinese sks, but i was hopeing for a yogu or ruskie( which is rare).
 
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I would have to say the Yugo is the best. That being said, I have never handled a Russian one, but have had several Yugos (still do). The Yugo is way better than the Chinese for fit and finish, the Yugos are almost elegant in their build and blueing, esp. the older M59 rifles. The Chinese are quite rough, but I always seem to have at least one junker Norinco SKS kicking around for ####s and giggles as I need something to fire all that Czech corrosive ammo in.
 
The best one's are those that will shoot into 3 inches or less at 100 yards with surplus ammo!
I'd prefer if it was chrome bored and the lighter the better.

I had a Yugo version with the gernade launcher but I found it a little to heavy and since I don't have any gernades to launch a little useless.
 
I love my Yugo M59, its built like a tank.
I'v used the chinese ones, they are alright and I would own one.
I'd say go for the Eastern bloc sks's though if you can, they are worth every penny.
 
The fit and finish of my early 60's Factory 26 is as good as any SKS I've seen. You can't really compare the commercial Norinco's to the early Chinese military SKS's.
 
Stevo said:
The fit and finish of my early 60's Factory 26 is as good as any SKS I've seen. You can't really compare the commercial Norinco's to the early Chinese military SKS's.
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That's absolutely right. Most seen here in recent years have been cheaply refurbed (i.e. not to proper milspec). One exception are those imported by Bell Distributing. Oddly, I've only seen 2 from them that were Factory 26. The others are from the 2nd wave factories of various vintages.

As originally built, the T56 is every bit as nice as any Russian.
 
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Stevo said:
The fit and finish of my early 60's Factory 26 is as good as any SKS I've seen. You can't really compare the commercial Norinco's to the early Chinese military SKS's.
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true, my son has a 1965 and i use to have a 1967, his 1965 is much better finishing than the 1967, it has extra mill work on the rear sight block and carrier, and trigger housing is milled whereas the 67 has stamped trigger housing but his wood not as good as mine.
 
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curtton said:
true, my son has a 1965 and i use to have a 1967, his 1965 is much better finishing than the 1967, it has extra mill work on the rear sight block and carrier, and trigger housing is milled whereas the 67 has stamped trigger housing but his wood not as good as mine.
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Interesting, I recently bought a '67 factory 26 - and compared to the Norinco imports (the ones with Norinco marked on them) I find another huge quality difference. On a side note, same thing with the Tokarev.
 
Pretty much everything, really. The carrier to rail fit seems slacker on the Norc models, though the bolt to carrier fit is good.Then there's the infamous pinned (and usually spot welded) barrel. Some of the triggers need to be experienced to be understood too. My trigger is heavy, but has nice safe engagement- no forward sliding hammer prior to release, and a predictable release. It won't be mistaken for a target trigger but is something you can adapt to. Frankly, one of the triggers I tried was stiff, heavy and gritty, and when checked the hammer was moving forward long before release, almost as soon as the take up was gone, not the kind of thing you'd expect in a 'new' rifle. I do have to say the stocks on the newer ones are better finished, but really I'd rather have ugly wood and good metal.
 
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3"@200yds

M59 Yugo in a Choate stock. SVD scope. Surplus ammo. I'm shooting tight groups at 100; banging a 6" gong steady at 200 yards. I can hit the 10" gong at 300 yards. I think the Yugoslavs got it right.:evil:
 
curtton said:
i dont know which is better , yugo or russian , but i do want one of each so i could end up with a nice threesome:rockOn:
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just got a russian, still looking for a yugo.

Stevo said:
The fit and finish of my early 60's Factory 26 is as good as any SKS I've seen. You can't really compare the commercial Norinco's to the early Chinese military SKS's.
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agreed, my russian , like most russian sks is refurbish, they did not do a nice park job but if i were to look below the surface and compare it to my chinese factory 26 1965, they look almost identical, both got extra milled carrier, milled trigger housing, treaded long lug barrel, the only differences are the bayo and the wood.

i had a factory 26 1967 and that wasnt as nice as the 1965 and according to IAN IN VIC the late commercial chinese models are not as nice as the 1967 .
 
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