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Plastic Sks Stocks


karlunity

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I have two SKSs, in case one fails.
One had a kinda ratty stock, so i got this black plastic stock from Center fire.
The stock itself fit tight..like a stock that had been glassed.
But the recoil pad was very ill fitting and the gas tube cover was thin plastic and needed a lot of hand fitting...Not at all like the old butler creek stock.
But I have to say that I was surprised at the range.
Granted; it was an indoor range and only 50 meters..but after adjustment for windege and elevation .required by the.new stock,...firing from a rest, it was putting the bullets into the same ragged hole.

karl

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<p>Does it shoot better with the plastic stock than it did with the wood one?<br />

Dr. Hess<br />

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Yes.<br />

But I have to add that the wood one was ill fitting.<br />

That is; it fit by the standards of the  Chinese army.<br />

The plastic one  is a very very tight fit.<br />

My other SKS is in a wooden stock that I hand fit. It shoots about as well as the one in the plastic stock and I think wood looks better. <br />

But that wood stock, if you could find it now, would cost twice as much and take several hours work and several trips to the range and several boxes of ammo to finish/ re-zero.<br />

The plastic one only required a bit of sanding down the the gas tube cover to make it perhaps a mm or so shorter, and the rest of the stock just dropped in with a bit of muscle. The windage needed only about 3/4 turn and the elevation only one full turn to re-zero and 10 rounds, That was a lot less than the adjustment needed when I refitted the  wooden stock on the other SKS.<br />

karl</p>

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Looking at it as an investment, probably not in our lifetime but like all mil-surp arms. Its value 40,50 years from now will be considerably less not being in original configuration. Think of all the sported 03 Springfields done in the 50 and 60's. Today a sportorized Springfield will fetch 250-300 at best. In original military condition the asking price today of an 03 is reaching a grand or better.

 

I agree, nearly all Chinese SKS stocks appear to be ratty. Like they're made of recycled bamboo poles, popsicle sticks and rotten wood pallets. See some attractive SKS's in sporter stocks at gunshows that look decent. I saw an SKS about 6 months ago at my gun club in a beautifully finished walnut stock. My first thought was this guy had way to much spare time on his hands. The club member claimed it was a Viet Nam bring-back. Sadly taken and sold by the family of the Veteran suffering from Alzheimer's. Guess the Vet took the same pride in it many WW2 Vets did sporting the Mausers and Jap rifles they brought home.

 

Heck if it shoots, a ragged hole for an SKS at any range is good but what is important is you being pleased with it. Especially if the shot string improved. Doesn't sound to me as it took a lot of time or work to fit it. Which ever family member it is passed on to and curses you in year 2075 for destroying its value as a collector's piece will just have to deal with it.

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I still kept the wood stock. So if someone wants to change it back in 50 years..good luck to them.

What I need now is a time machine back to the mid 90s..

I had a nice outdoor range to go to and 7.62/39 was $ 2 a box .

H.G. Karl

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