Thread: Newfound respect for the SKS

Remind me again what this has to do with an SKS being good for the stinkies?

Snipers are a battalion/brigade asset. They are generally asigned to support coy like mortars and DFSW.

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Originally Posted by Daggers_187

Nope. Snipers are usually a company asset. You have to be spesh for the OC to give you a sniper.

I think it is very much a situation-driven matter, and it also depends on how you define ‘sniper’.

The Brit Army still has its scout/sniper section at battalion level and then the long-range snipers in the SF community, but had to add what might best be termed marksmen or sharpshooters armed with 7.62 mm rifles at the platoon and even section level in Afghanistan to counter enemy engaging at 400+ m range with LMGs, Dragunovs and even AKs, the latter not accurate at those ranges, but capable of wounding or killing by accident.

I think in most cases what is happening is that infantry units take their best marksmen in a company or platoon or in a base, and give them a rifle with a scope to counter so-called ‘sniping’ and real sniping by irregular forces, discourage the placing of booby traps on access roads to a base, etc, in the latter case mainly at night. Actual snipers in the sense of very long-range engagements are used at a higher level to support an operation, to dominate ground or to deal with enemy snipers.

R93 beat me to it!

Training is way different for marksman at section level compared to real snipers.
In NZ the pass rate for a "Sniper" trained soldier used to be around 1 in 50 on a cse strength of 10 chosen from a preselection cse run annually at the most.
To be a marksman you generally just have to be a good shot or the best in your section or platoon.

Shooting is around 5% of trained snipers skills.
The term sniper is wrongly applied to so many situations by the ignorant.

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Cheers for clearing that up guys....now SKS on stinkies.......i recon 'great'

Originally Posted by Scouser

Cheers for clearing that up guys....now SKS on stinkies.......i recon 'great'

They go well subsonic as well apparently?

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Never shot an animal with the sks but a mate bought one took it down the back of his farm and was wasting stubby bottles at 100m easy with open sights.redneck as but shit it was fun would be an awesome stinky slayer I reckon

Go the SKS!!!!!

A 7.62x39 upper for ar15 is expensive way to get into that caliber. So is the ruger mini 30. For that money you could get a saiga in 7.62x39 or 3 sks's.

The trigger in my 1963 has definitely seen service in another rifle, the contact between trigger and sear is smooth from use when I got rifle 'new' in factory grease. Trigger jobs on sks's are caveman easy I made mine pretty good, but it result depends on if you have a stamped or milled trigger group. Milled are better.

I shot a fallow in the middle of lungs and it ran away (albeit staggering and pretty messed up) with S&B 124gr. I feel it is a bit weak to get consistent and humane knock down on a deer with 1 hit. Never had that problem with goats though.

Most bullets loaded into x39 ammo are quite hard and don't expand very well. I found that the Barnaul soft points cause quite savage wounding on goats.