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Only one rifle I ever liked with the AK mag, the AK-47, accept no substitutions.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Exactly. If you want a rifle that looks like a AK, why not buy a AK. Why take a different platform and screw it up? Jim, your Paratrooper has had a lot of work done on it to try and turn it into a AK. My Paratrooper is still just a SKS platform. It runs well just like it was designed to do.Junk Yard Dog wrote:Only one rifle I ever liked with the AK mag, the AK-47, accept no substitutions.
Like I said, I have a 25 round steel removable magazine that will go onto a SKS. Never put it on after running the SKS the way it came out. Never saw the reason to. Jim has told me those after market AK type removable mags for the SKS are nothing but trouble. I guess that was a little the reason I never bothered with it.
Anyone want a magazine?
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It's been shortened, that part of it is not an issue, it shoots straight, the one round in the chamber before the mag falls out. Possibly it was short to start with, I never made much of a study of the Chinese SKS. I don't remember if the guy I got it from said he put that grip on it or not, stuff like that was all over back then so he might have. If you hold the mag up, or prop it on a table when you fire it, it will chamber the next round and fire it as normal. The work to allow use of the detachable mag was poorly done, very sloppy work, there is simply no way for it to positively attach in the well so it can't shake loose. The weight of the empty mag is enough to cause it to drop.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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I think that one is a Bubba conversion Jim. Norinco made some factory jobs that may be crap also, I think most stamped "type M", with various fancy stocks.
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I picked this up back when a regular SKS was under a buck. Back then nobody but the Chinese was altering these things. Except for the magazine well the rest of the work, cutting down the barrel or whatever, is done well, and the rifle shoots as straight as any SKS. They just didn't come up with a means of solidly retaining the magazine in the rifle. The reason for this is that the SKS was never designed for a detachable magazine in the first place.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Definitely not a fancy stock on it either, typical shit wood red colored piece of crap all the issued Chinese SKS rifles wore back then.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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Another POS is the TAPCO replacement stock and their mags. They didn't fall out as often but trying to make an SKS Tacti-Cool with one is a waste of time and money.
Damn, I'll bet that's going to leave a mark! Probably hurt too!
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"I think Congressmen should wear uniforms,
you know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could
identify their corporate sponsors."
"When I die, I want to be facing my enemies surrounded by their dead bodies and piles of spent brass"
"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
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