Thread: Why do people frown at using military rifles for hunting?

A SKS in good hands can outshoot an AR in sloppy hands. I have competed with both for target shooting and the AR is just easier to shoot well. There is more challenge to shoot the SKS well at nearly 1/10th the price.

Originally Posted by compound

A SKS in good hands can outshoot an AR in sloppy hands. I have competed with both for target shooting and the AR is just easier to shoot well. There is more challenge to shoot the SKS well at nearly 1/10th the price.

Thats like saying The Stig in a Fiat Uno will beat your granny in a F1 car

SKS are a good for 50 yd bush work, you are simply wasting your time putting a scope on one

Originally Posted by Spanners

Thats like saying The Stig in a Fiat Uno will beat your granny in a F1 car

SKS are a good for 50 yd bush work, you are simply wasting your time putting a scope on one

You can get some quite nice ghost ring sights for them. I'd consider one, if the stocks (and everything else) weren't so damned awful.

Well you could pop a monte carlo on,a synthetic, dragnov type stock... theres a few replacement stocks around the 150 mark....

one thing that I've seen thats plain cool is a bullpup SKS....

I think the attraction to the sks is that its cheap,reliable and a short handy bush/goat gun... its the sort of gun most people can walk in and just buy outright....

and 7.62x39 is sooo cheap to shoot!

So you take a piece of shit... spend a bunch of money on it, and end up with something 'acceptable' that is still the same minute of rubbish bin (where you got the gun from) shooting thing you started with.

Lipstick on a pig doesn't make it a princess

Its no longer cheap and its still not accurate

Originally Posted by Spanners

minute of rubbish bin

From the inside.

Originally Posted by Rock river arms hunter

and 7.62x39 is sooo cheap to shoot!

I didn't think there was that significant a difference in price, and with the increased accuracy of an AR you wouldn't need to burn through so much, but also have the option of putting excellent quality ammo through for pretty reasonable accuracy. Damn it you lot, will you stop pokin' at the keyboards, it's not helping me out that much. I know I don't need one but I sure do want one.