new SKS!

[Guest abailey362]

Went over to Skip's firearms today and picked up the Norinco synthetic SKS that's pictured on his website http://www.skipsfirearms.com/usedlist.htm Paid $200 and I think it's a good price for the gun. Mark one more off the list to buy before November.

This is my first SKS, so I might ask some stupid questions. If there is any advice anyone has please feel free to post it up, no matter how simple it may be about these guns.

[Guest bkelm18]

Lots of good info here: http://www.surplusrifle.com/sks/index.asp

[Guest EasilyObsessed]

Dont bother trying to use aftermarket magazines, they are generally all junk. Stick with stripper clips. You should be able to buy a bunch of the stripper clips for cheap.

[Mike.357]

If you do buy stripper clips take a cartridge and run it back and forth in the clip a whole mess of times. It helps loosen them up a touch making them function better.

You can get them from CTD and a lot of gunshops sell them too. i kept buying a few at a time until I had enough to fill a narrow ammo box. I think it hold about 380 rounds or so. I think i have about 50 clips, give or take.

[Guest price g]

:cool:It is a good shooter:cool:

[Magiccarpetrides]

Thats a good looking SKS man.

[Guest Tuco]

http://forums.gunboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

Might assist as well.

[Guest sling]

The SKS is a fantastic gun. I really wish i hadnt sold mine. It and the AK are the workin mans gun.

[Guest Tuco]

I like shooting the SKS over the AK as it is more comfortable to me. They are great little carbines, good shooters, and tough as nails.

[Moped]

That looks like a Paratrooper from Norinco. Good looking rifle!

[K191145]

Dont bother trying to use aftermarket magazines, they are generally all junk. Stick with stripper clips. You should be able to buy a bunch of the stripper clips for cheap.

I've had several SKS's, have a pretty nice one now. The only high cap mags I gotten to work was the Chinese 20 rounder with the commie star. I still had to tweek it a little. The chamber has no angle or ramp for feeding and some of the mags wont allow the tip of the round to enter the chamber all the time but I spred out the rails(if that's the correct terminology), so the tip of the round enters the chamber.