SKS fud at California ranges!

[7.62user]

Ok it's mostlly a rant. I always bring SKS with me to a range day which is ones a week. SKS always comes with me like SF21. Both are my hd weapons.
There are always dudes with Aks and Ars doing mug dumps next to me but I always get questions by fellow shooters of British or Australians desent. I cant tell a difference they might be South Africans but they all sounds the same to me. God help them if they want to attack Russia because of Ukraine. Just by looking at them they will make a field day of those pedars.
I get questions about a bayo. My respond is fed AW is expired and CA dosnt care about bayo. Next question is about full auto. I'm not buying it and confirmed its a semi -auto. Next is expalining about how to clean a free floating firing pin. I always tell them that in stock form SKS is safest semi auto in Ca.
Where is all that fud about SKS is coming from? I tell them that Turners are responsible for most of it. Guy that was questining me has a yugo unfired SKS and afraid to take out due to a bayonet. He asked how to remove it. i told him again non sense and just bring it. Do you guys get the same questions? I dont know maybe I look friendlly and take my time to explain stuff to people but I'm getting close to start telling them to **** off. Whats your expirience?

[echo1]

People are bayo stupid. I sold a mess of SKSs this January and the 01 FFL made me remove the bayos from any Chinese SKS, but the Alby and M59/66 were ok to transfer with the bayos installed??? PAX

[Kerplow]

Lol, anyone who can’t figure out how to remove the bayo on a Yugo SKS is pretty dense. It’s held on by a single screw.

[oc16]

because its one of them Comi Assualty weapons that's why

[sbo80]

I always shoot my milsurps with bayo attached and extended. it's the most assaulty possible.
Honestly though it's incredibly fun to shoot with a bayonet attached, like an Enfield with 16" sword bayonet sticking off the end. Or my Gewehr 98 with the butcher blade bayonet. None of my semis have bayonets so I don't get bad looks though.

[bohoki]

People are bayo stupid. I sold a mess of SKSs this January and the 01 FFL made me remove the bayos from any Chinese SKS, but the Alby and M59/66 were ok to transfer with the bayos installed??? PAX

yea it was a strange rule the atf made about certain import sks but the recent sks were imported under the curio regulations and technically once you remove the bayonet it may not protected under the curio import regulations and then must comply with 922r

[7.62user]

I always shoot my milsurps with bayo attached and extended. it's the most assaulty possible.
Honestly though it's incredibly fun to shoot with a bayonet attached, like an Enfield with 16" sword bayonet sticking off the end. Or my Gewehr 98 with the butcher blade bayonet. None of my semis have bayonets so I don't get bad looks though.

My K98 with a bayonet looks bad *** but nobody cares. I think from now on I'll tell people to MYOB. No more educating them. They can ask a Queen for a pardon.

[Danodog]

I bought a Russian SKS and that thing was a slam fire machine. I cleaned every orifice of that rifle and it still went crazy. I took it to a gunsmith and he told me that I needed to clean the rifle better before I took it out of the case. I told him it was clean and he proceeded to take the rifle apart and and agreed that I did a great job. He also replicated the slam fire problem. He ordered two parts and bent something to make it work. It ran like a top after that. I later sold it for $200 because I doubled my money on it. While I did enjoy the SKS, I half to admit the AR platform appeals to me more.

[Nvberinger]

I bought a Russian SKS and that thing was a slam fire machine. I cleaned every orifice of that rifle and it still went crazy. I took it to a gunsmith and he told me that I needed to clean the rifle better before I took it out of the case. I told him it was clean and he proceeded to take the rifle apart and and agreed that I did a great job. He also replicated the slam fire problem. He ordered two parts and bent something to make it work. It ran like a top after that. I later sold it for $200 because I doubled my money on it. While I did enjoy the SKS, I half to admit the AR platform appeals to me more.

Should have bought a Murry spring and firing pin.

[hambam105]

Late 1980s, Los Altos Rod & Gun, witnesses said he was firing from the kneeling position, run-away SKS...
lost control...shot from behind...piece ended up wedged beneath truck tire in parking lot.

Bummer.

[Verdha603]

Where is all that fud about SKS is coming from? I tell them that Turners are responsible for most of it. Guy that was questining me has a yugo unfired SKS and afraid to take out due to a bayonet. He asked how to remove it. i told him again non sense and just bring it. Do you guys get the same questions? I dont know maybe I look friendlly and take my time to explain stuff to people but I'm getting close to start telling them to **** off. Whats your expirience?

More than likely the guy with the Yugo SKS just doesn't want to admit he didn't take the rifle grenade launcher off this rifle and doesn't want to get nailed by the CADOJ for having a "destructive device" on his rifle.

Of all the different things that piss me off regarding how asinine CA's gun laws are, it's how they pretty much banned any C&R rifle with a muzzle device that doubles as a rifle grenade launcher because they have some unreasonable fear that terrorists are going to be using rifle mounted grenades to commit some kind of violent crime with them.

[bohoki]

Should have bought a Murry spring and firing pin.

that sounded like a hammer fall issue not a stuck firing pin

[bruss01]

I bought a Russian SKS and that thing was a slam fire machine. I cleaned every orifice of that rifle and it still went crazy. I took it to a gunsmith and he told me that I needed to clean the rifle better before I took it out of the case. I told him it was clean and he proceeded to take the rifle apart and and agreed that I did a great job. He also replicated the slam fire problem. He ordered two parts and bent something to make it work. It ran like a top after that. I later sold it for $200 because I doubled my money on it. While I did enjoy the SKS, I half to admit the AR platform appeals to me more.

They had a reputation for a while, for being ammo-sensitive.

With military primers the free-floating firing pin wasn't an issue. But some commercial (brass cased) ammo had more sensitive primers that were more touchy than what was designed for the rigors of the battlefield.

It was a fixable issue, as your gun guy demonstrated. Usually just adding a spring to prevent accidental ignition in the FP channel.

There was also a lesser-known issue of the firing pin hole in the bolt face having a razor sharp lip to it. Occasionally, when the primer would ignite it would swell back against the bolt face with enough pressure to "pop" a small disk of metal out of the primer, the exact diameter of the firing pin hole. The hot gasses would blow that tiny disk back through the firing pin channel, where enough of them would eventually accumulate to jam up the firing pin in the retracted or extended position. Retracted causing the gun not to fire, extended potentially causing a slam-fire. That too is easy enough to fix, just relieve the sharpness of the FP hole with a deburring tool or emory cloth. You don't want to remove any noticeable metal, just dull the sharpness of that edge. I've done it with a couple of different sizes of philips screwdrivers, just push firmly and twist.

[Rob454]

When I had my SKS I used to fire it with the bayo extended. Ah…still miss that little rascal

[pitfighter]

Of all the different things that piss me off regarding how asinine CA's gun laws are, it's how they pretty much banned any C&R rifle with a muzzle device that doubles as a rifle grenade launcher because they have some unreasonable fear that terrorists are going to be using rifle mounted grenades to commit some kind of violent crime with them.

They were harping on the "non-sporting" aspects of certain rifles, so that they could argue for a reason to ban them.
Bayonet, grenade launcher, protruding pistol grip, high capacity magazine.
It was never about reducing violent crime with grenades or bayonets.

When you're selling anti gun-laws to liberals who for the most part are ignorant of firearms you have to reduce it to child-like references for them.

The concept of IPSC or combat rifle shoots, three gun matches, is completely foreign to them.