Hi:
I have 3 Norinco rifles at this time.The first one from the top had a scope
and it's my first SKS .The other 2 are just in the mil stocks.I would like to get a Yugo next but I think I'll wait until prices fall out first.I'm realy happy with the Tapco 20 rnd mags.
I only have 1 yugo however I own about 20 different rifles. If I had the cash I would buy more. I love collecting rifles and guns, For now I need to look at getting another safe to store my guns.
My wife doesn't care too much for my rifles but she understands my passion for collecting them.
I only have 1 yugo however I own about 20 different rifles. If I had the cash I would buy more. I love collecting rifles and guns, For now I need to look at getting another safe to store my guns.
My wife doesn't care too much for my rifles but she understands my passion for collecting them.
I hear you on every word... I also have lady that doesn't really care unless I am not paying the bills. I also need a new safe that will fit through the door.
You can use the 10/22 guys as a perfect example. There are loads of guys who own a dozen or so 10/22's, and they take a 200 dollar small caliber carbine and put thousands of dollars in upgrades for them, all to punch holes in paper.
At least with an SKS, you have a weapon that serves a viable purpose. I guess I shouldn't say much, I do own ONE 10/22, which has been treated to a few of the standard improvements.
I do have 2 SKS', one with a tapco (a norinco paratrooper), and a bone stock yugo. The wife understands that if we are going to have a decent stock of ammo, we need a back-up gun in each caliber we keep. What use is a load of 7.62 when one broken firing pin negates using it? And of course, keeping down the number of calibers you shoot makes ammo more affordable, since you can buy in bulk. That explains the mini 30, right?
Now I still need a second 8mm Mauser and I am all set.....
One, a Norinco. But have three original Lee-Enfields.
Jedhoop: "Roger that".
I still can't begin to imagine how a lady's shoes or pieces of small (or large) Meissen 'porcelain' can begin to compare with military-styled rifles.
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Just the one Yugo 59/66A1 for me, but I think I'm really going to get rid of it after the beating it gave me today.
Granted, the other rifle calibers I'm used to shooting are both .22's (.22lr and .223), but I'm not a very buff guy and have practically no padding on my shoulders, so after 50 rounds of x39 beating against bone I already had a bruise and spend the rest of the afternoon flinching. With the .22lr. I have no problems with .223's, though. Guess that added oomph is a little much for me.
Guess that kills my dream of having an M-24 SWS clone in .300 Win Mag.
At least I found out it functions 100% with Wolf MC JHP's without having to do a chamber job on it.
It works perfect, I don't need anymore. This thing can eat $12 worth of ammo in a few minutes.
My collection now requires several additional 22's, I'm thinking of getting a savage mark 2 for cheap 100 yard target shooting, and another pistol (maybe a revolver), a short barrel home defense shotgun (cheapie to bubba), and a trap-bird shotgun (if they every get the trap working at our gun club).
There goes my discretionary spending for the next 6 months!
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Just the one Yugo 59/66A1 for me, but I think I'm really going to get rid of it after the beating it gave me today.
Granted, the other rifle calibers I'm used to shooting are both .22's (.22lr and .223), but I'm not a very buff guy and have practically no padding on my shoulders, so after 50 rounds of x39 beating against bone I already had a bruise and spend the rest of the afternoon flinching. With the .22lr. I have no problems with .223's, though. Guess that added oomph is a little much for me.
Guess that kills my dream of having an M-24 SWS clone in .300 Win Mag.
At least I found out it functions 100% with Wolf MC JHP's without having to do a chamber job on it.
The small size winchester shock pads they sell at Walmart fit the SKS stock, I have a medium one on over the Tapco plastic adjustable stock, but you have to cut it a bit to let the strap swivel through.
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Just lurking around and stumbled across this...Bought a Norinco way back when for $89. Sold it for $200 and bought a nice Tula to replace it. I'm more into "one of each" than assembling a stable of clones. I'm into the history a bit I guess.
My original norinco paratrooper was 89 bucks, with 2 boxes of chinese steelcore ammo tossed in!!! Those were the days.
Just the one Yugo 59/66A1 for me, but I think I'm really going to get rid of it after the beating it gave me today.
Granted, the other rifle calibers I'm used to shooting are both .22's (.22lr and .223), but I'm not a very buff guy and have practically no padding on my shoulders, so after 50 rounds of x39 beating against bone I already had a bruise and spend the rest of the afternoon flinching. With the .22lr. I have no problems with .223's, though. Guess that added oomph is a little much for me.
Guess that kills my dream of having an M-24 SWS clone in .300 Win Mag.
At least I found out it functions 100% with Wolf MC JHP's without having to do a chamber job on it.
One of these slip on Sim's Limb Savers from Cabella's will almost make it feel like your plinking a .22! I kid you not. The SKS steel butt stock was murder on me as I have had surgical reconstruction of my right shoulder and the outer 1/4 of my clavical is missing altogether. Your SKS takes a size small and they really work. The $35 sounds a bit spendy but it is worth every penny and since it's a slip on pad you can swap it onto any rifle with a similarly sized butt stock.
I'd still like to trade the Yugo up to a Russian or a Norinco, or even up to a WASR.
It's an awful pig to haul around for what amounts to a 200 yard gun. Especially considering I'm not sure I could get it on paper at 200. I guess I could hack all the excess crap off the end of it, and put it in a lightweight synthetic stock, but the thought of doing that to a rifle that I'm sure has seen some action in the last 38 years is, to put it lightly, unsettling at best.
You can look down her barrel and tell somebody over there rode her hard before she went back in to the arsenal.
That said, they are certainly solid rifles, who put nice, big, motivating holes in things. And the 12" of pointy goodness hanging off the end of it don't hurt any.
How do you like the rear Tech sight on the bottom rifle? Did you use a Williams Fire Sight on the front? That's a setup I'm trying to install on my '63 Jiahnshe Arsenal Chi-Com SKS but I haven't figured out a way to do it without cutting the factory rear action cover retainer pin off which I don't want to do.
Secondly who do I have to kill to get a thumb hole stock like that second rifle? It looks very short. Is it a custom job or regular issue for a rare tanker or paratrooper application?
How do you like the rear Tech sight on the bottom rifle? Did you use a Williams Fire Sight on the front? That's a setup I'm trying to install on my '63 Jiahnshe Arsenal Chi-Com SKS but I haven't figured out a way to do it without cutting the factory rear action cover retainer pin off which I don't want to do.
Secondly who do I have to kill to get a thumb hole stock like that second rifle? It looks very short. Is it a custom job or regular issue for a rare tanker or paratrooper application?
SWEET collection!
peep site is great. front sight I got from SKSman? I forget actually...it is smaller diameter post....factory rear pin was cut to install...thumbhole stock came with the rifle...have no idea if it's original...soon I will scan for proof marks..etc...and get back to ya....
im a US & COMMONWEALTH collector so the one i have is related to my M16 , same venue of service and a nice chinese rifle [not a bringback] i dont always collect a sample of the oppositions firearm , but , i do have an 1893 spanish mauser to stand next to my trapdoors and krags
peep site is great. front sight I got from SKSman? I forget actually...it is smaller diameter post....factory rear pin was cut to install...thumbhole stock came with the rifle...have no idea if it's original...soon I will scan for proof marks..etc...and get back to ya....
it's a model m they came like that i have one and it's my favorite rifel i own
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