Thread: sks improvements

Every SKS I have shot has been capable of consistently hitting clay targets at 100m, with irons. That is perfectly adequate for what they are and what the cartridge can do. If you intend to spend money on one, I can only really recommend a red dot sight on a mount that replaces the rear sight. A friend has a rig set up like that and it is effective.

Originally Posted by Beavis

Every SKS I have shot has been capable of consistently hitting clay targets at 100m, with irons. That is perfectly adequate for what they are and what the cartridge can do. If you intend to spend money on one, I can only really recommend a red dot sight on a mount that replaces the rear sight. A friend has a rig set up like that and it is effective.

Mine has a 3x9 and a scope laser mounted over the dust cover, can still use iron sights too.. Usually hits what I point it at. the SKS is a damn good rifle. I think just because so many were made and they are so cheap some people consider them to be sub-par which is a shame

Mine cost me $450 with dragonov style stock, scope rail, and threaded for a suppressor. With my .30 cal suppressor groups at 3 1/2 - 4 1/2 moa, without suppressor 2 1/2 - 3 moa with Barnaul softpoints. The only thing that I added was a rubber bolt damper. Fun to shoot, and looks quite saucy. The rail is slightly off-centre, which I hope to fix in the next couple of months / years / never.

Good ammo is probably the best thing to help accuracy.
People seem to only feed them cheep shit ammo.

yep its funny how such a crappy rifle in some peoples opinion has so many accessories available ill start buying a couple of things for it once I put a timney in my mauser the stuff im looking at buying is a stock a shell deflector and a some kind of rail to mount possibly the side mount as it wont move around at the moment all ive done to it is a bolt buffer

Originally Posted by northdude

after thinking about an ar I had another thought why don't I just make do with what ive got so Im wanting to know if any one has built an accurate sks I like 7.62x39 my thoughts are to do a trigger job and a monte carlo stock but I will go to gun city and have a feel of both kinds of stock available for them im not expecting target rifle accuracy and im not trying to make it into a ak lookalike either iv read on some overseas forums that people are getting under moa all day long which I find really hard to believe as well mine currently shoots approx 4moa at the moment which is probably pretty good anyway but I like the challenge of trying to see if an average shooting rifle can be made better and it still will be quite a cheap rifle when its finished cheers

Originally Posted by northdude

yep but im going to make do with what ive got and ive already got plenty of rifles that will shoot rings around it and if I could get 1.5 moa I recon id be doing well and it wouldn't be near as much as an ar don't take that as bagging ars I don't have a problem with them

Originally Posted by northdude

yep its funny how such a crappy rifle in some peoples opinion has so many accessories available ill start buying a couple of things for it once I put a timney in my mauser the stuff im looking at buying is a stock a shell deflector and a some kind of rail to mount possibly the side mount as it wont move around at the moment all ive done to it is a bolt buffer

Holy shit your posts are hard to read when there's no punctuation! I've recently fitted my SKS with an ATI Monte Carlo stock, scoutscopes.com optic mount and reflex sight.





Will be taking it for a bit of a walk over the long weekend.

been looking at sight options I might go for a tech sight on the rear I think 1.5 moa is really pushing it but you have to set goals so you have something to aim for one thing that probably limits the accuracy that I can see is how its held into the stock its kind of clamped in and floats around a bit

Any sight that is mounted to the receiver cover, or the gas tube will do nothing to help improve the accuracy of the SKS, due to the inherent play in those parts.

the tech sight uses the rear receiver cover hole which goes through the receiver as well so it should be pretty stable how do you find the monte stock stretch did it fit straight in

The metalwork fitted straight into the Monte Carlo stock. The gas tube handguard was a different story. Had to use a centerpunch to take the metal end cap off the hand guard, trim the plastic a bit, refit the metal end cap and reinsert the bent and deformed pin.

which pin was it that must be why you see some skss still with the wooden top wood still on them

The lower is drilled and tapped on both sides but a van choate mount doesn't fit, till I find or make one that does the receiver cover one will do nicely.
The extra 2 inches of pull the stock gave improved accuracy anyhow. Yep the wood is still on the gas tube but as I got the stock 3rd hand it had gone awol. Anyhow I think the wood is a nice touch.

My set up.. used shitty webcam to try take pics of it. But hopefully you get the idea. Works really well for me. P.S my shell deflector is taken off in the picture

those pics look good on your one s-k ive seen where they drill and tap the front of the mount you have under the roll pin to hold the mount better ive done the mauser trigger so im on to the sks now first im taking some of the creep out and smoothing it up

here it is before ive done anything to it