SKS Firing Pin Question

[chknlyps2]

This has happened to me as well, albeit only once in many thousands of rounds and it was with a Chicom. FP was FUBAR.

Mine has always been with my Yugo and Tula ammo, I have shot Tula out of my Chicoms with no issue. I have 2 cases of Tula I got pre panic and I get 3 boxes every time I see it at Walmart so I don't know which batch the rounds came from. I have a ammo can I take to the range and the walmart ammo gets put in there plus what ever I need out of the case ammo I have so it is mixed up. My daughter loves the Yugo and she will shoot it all day if I let her so it gets the highest round count. When the primer pierces a little round piece of primer gets blown back into the firing pin hole in the bolt and helps lock up the pin besides it being bent from being pushed back under the retainer pin. Although the end of the fp looks good I was hoping that changing it would stop the issue.

[knucklehead0202]

If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is? No thanks. For a while I was mystified as to why the first SKS's had spring-loaded pins and then they quickly did away with them. My '52 doubled on me once when I first got it. After cleaning a little gunk out of the bolt, the FF pin works perfectly and I wouldn't dream of adding a potential problem to a functional machine. Some rifles almost demand a FF pin just because of the way they function. This, however, is not one of them.

[0321jarhead]

If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is? No thanks. For a while I was mystified as to why the first SKS's had spring-loaded pins and then they quickly did away with them. My '52 doubled on me once when I first got it. After cleaning a little gunk out of the bolt, the FF pin works perfectly and I wouldn't dream of adding a potential problem to a functional machine. Some rifles almost demand a FF pin just because of the way they function. This, however, is not one of them.

Just clean out the bolt and you'll be good to go. Of the 5 SKS rifles I own, I have never, not once had an issue with the firing pin.

Okay Bobby, you are still in the lead of the most here. No 415 intended.