A brief history of, and a couple of SKS Sniper Rifles (picture heavy)

[81turbota]

Excellent resource, thanks for taking the time to document and share!

[Saigon1965]

Good stuff P! I never got into snipers but always fascinated with them -

Cheers!

[pitfighter]

Great post, and terrific follow up.
Is that a set trigger on the first B+W image?

A pair of really interesting SKS -
How dod they shoot Jimja.

I think plural of SKS is just SKS right not SKS's.

[vintagearms]

Showoff! J/K. Those are some beautiful rifles. Thanks for sharing.

[Maltese Falcon]

Nice presentation, learned a lot. Many thanks.

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[Spaffo]

More rifle envy! Thanks for posting.

[PoorRichRichard]

Tag. Cool info

[SVT-40]

Extremely rare rifles in fantastic condition... Wow.

[Jimja]

Glad you guys found it interesting!

I will group both of these soon, originally I planned on doing that tomorrow at the monthly C&R shoot, but it has been postponed by a week due to rain. I'll do it next weekend

It'll be unofficial but I'm curious how they do, will use 5 different types of 7.62x39 ammo (Wolf, Tulammo, Golden Tiger, Yugo M67, Geco Target). I'll post the result here

Hopefully by then I'll have the original 1949 prototype SKS shooting result from the Soviet proving grounds report to compare these to

[Full Clip]

Great writeup.
Looking forward to range report.

[boris badinov]

I approve of this post!

Especially the early SKS45 prototypes. I have never seen these before this.


Thanks for sharing.

[wpage]

SKS is a proven performer...

Hard to put one down...

[jeffrice6]

Tag

[Jimja]

Post #1 updated with some more details of the 1949 Soviet military SKS sniper accuracy requirements and actual test results from the proving grounds

Post #5 updated with Yugo test results

[Saigon1965]

Jimja - In your research have you heard of/seen of SKS sniper set up coming out of Vietnam?

I've not - Perhaps due to an abundance of Mosin sniper -