SKS Stock

[FUNKED1]

A friend is trading me a russian SKS with a fiberforce stock.  The stock sucks, doesn't fit the gun correctly, and he lost the original stock, so I am looking for a replacement stock.  I'd like it to be close to the original russian stock, but in polymer.  Anybody know of something like this?

[Dune]

http://www.gunaccessories.com/ati/sksaccessories/index.asp

http://www.rifletech.com/cgi-bin/shop.pl/page=sks4.html

http://powercustom.com/SKS/parts_sks.htm

Here's a couple I found.  But I make no guarantees as to quality, etc.  

[FUNKED1]

Thanks.  I found what I was looking for - Choate conventional stock.  Hard to justify spending $50 on such a cheap rifle though.  I think I'm just going to pick up a surplus wood chinese stock for $10.

[genozaur]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
Thanks.  I found what I was looking for - Choate conventional stock.  Hard to justify spending $50 on such a cheap rifle though.  I think I'm just going to pick up a surplus wood chinese stock for $10.

Are you crazy, man ?
25 years after I shot my Soviet Army issue SKS, I can still feel in my shoulder that magnificent recoil. And you are going to buy China-made wooden stock ? I hope you change your mind.
And if you've got real Russian SKS (not the licensed foregn copy), it's really worth finding a nice recoil-absorbing stock, even if pricewise it will cost you more than Skorostrel'niy Karabin Simonova itself.

[NUKE]

LOL!

I have a 1956 Russian SKS...the recoil is almost NOTHING. Recoil....LOL!

[kevykev56]

Originally posted by genozaur
Are you crazy, man ?
25 years after I shot my Soviet Army issue SKS, I can still feel in my shoulder that magnificent recoil. And you are going to buy China-made wooden stock ? I hope you change your mind.
And if you've got real Russian SKS (not the licensed foregn copy), it's really worth finding a nice recoil-absorbing stock, even if pricewise it will cost you more than Skorostrel'niy Karabin Simonova itself.

You have to be kidding, I own 4 SKS rifles, A Russian, 2 Yugos and a Chinese. They all kick the same they all have wooden stocks and I will say that they kick not much more than a M14. They are very light recoil rifles. The AK-47 I have Kicks more than the SKS but not much and shoots the same round 7.62x39.  

The Yugo model I have has a Grenade Launcher on it. It has a gas diverter valve on it. If you switch it to fire the grenades it will put a hurt on your shoulder.

If the SKS hurt you I would hate to think what you would say if you shot the Russian Mosin Nagant M44. Metal buttplates with that the larger round leaves bruises, Ouch!

[Toad]

An SKS kicks? Ya gotta be kidding.

The ones I shot with military ammo were about like a .30-30 or less.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Toad
An SKS kicks? Ya gotta be kidding.

The ones I shot with military ammo were about like a .30-30 or less.

way less....almost no recoil.

[genozaur]

Originally posted by kevykev56
You have to be kidding, I own 4 SKS rifles, A Russian, 2 Yugos and a Chinese. They all kick the same they all have wooden stocks and I will say that they kick not much more than a M14. They are very light recoil rifles. The AK-47 I have Kicks more than the SKS but not much and shoots the same round 7.62x39.  

The Yugo model I have has a Grenade Launcher on it. It has a gas diverter valve on it. If you switch it to fire the grenades it will put a hurt on your shoulder.

If the SKS hurt you I would hate to think what you would say if you shot the Russian Mosin Nagant M44. Metal buttplates with that the larger round leaves bruises, Ouch!

I was not of a feeble frame at the time, I was firing 100% Soviet-made SKS and it did not hurt to fire it. But one can't deny that it's recoil is pretty powerful. You compare it to the recoil from the AK-47. So what's the use in absorbing that recoil with your shoulder ? If it is for the sake of authenticity, I would understand that, but otherwise ...?

[NUKE]

Originally posted by genozaur
I was not of a feeble frame at the time, I was firing 100% Soviet-made SKS and it did not hurt to fire it. But one can't deny that it's recoil is pretty powerful.

LOL!  

a .22 would probably feel "powerful"  to you.

[Dune]

I bet my .416 Rem Mag kicks more.

[Toad]

Found this on the web, in an article about recoil:

also got a Yugo SKS as part of this first purchase. Now here is a carbine with very little kick! But what makes this so? First, even though it is a carbine, this sucker weighs in at a bit more than 9 lbs.

Second, it shoots a round with a tiny 122 gr bullet at only about 2300 fps. Third, as long as the gas port is open, the breach opens up to vent off a good portion of the spent gasses. These combine to produce an-estimated recoil energy of only about 5 ft-lbs, or less.

5 ft/lbs? YGBSM!

So I went looking some more.......

Cartridge w/bullet weight/ Rifle Weight/  Recoil energy

30-30 Win. (150 at 2400)/  7.5/  10.6

7.62x39 Soviet (125 at 2350) 7.0/ 6.9  

223 WSSM (55 at 3850) 7.5 6.4 7.4

So yeah, it has much less recoil than a .30-30 even. About like a .223

Wow... what a shoulder-punishing round.  

[DieAz]

Originally posted by NUKE
way less....almost no recoil.

the 1st time I shot a 7.62 X 39, I was way confused. heard a lil pop, felt nothing. so I walked to target to see if there was a hole in it, there was dead center.
pulled clip out, pulled bolt back ejected a round, locked bolt open. I just had to look down barrel to make sure the bullet didn't get stuck in it.
it was clear so put clip back in, drop the bolt, aimed pulled trigger again. then again lil pop nothing else. had to check target, and barrel again.

there is no recoil at all.  my 9mm compressed air rifle has more kick than the 7.62 X 39 does.

thought about turning the 7.62 X 39 into a long barreled pistol.
even firing it with one hand holding it out like a pistol, theres no recoil.

[SaburoS]

Originally posted by Toad
Found this on the web, in an article about recoil:



5 ft/lbs? YGBSM!

So I went looking some more.......

Cartridge w/bullet weight/ Rifle Weight/  Recoil energy

30-30 Win. (150 at 2400)/  7.5/  10.6

7.62x39 Soviet (125 at 2350) 7.0/ 6.9  

223 WSSM (55 at 3850) 7.5 6.4 7.4

So yeah, it has much less recoil than a .30-30 even. About like a .223

Wow... what a shoulder-punishing round.  

Chances are genozaur just doesn't "fit" the stock of the SKS. If there is a small pressure point it could be enough to impart pain to the shooter even if there is a relatively low recoil force.
The HK91-A3 just beats my shoulder to hell where as I could shoot all day the M1A, FNFAL, AR-10, Galil AR308. They all fire the same round. Human "engineering" plays a big part in felt recoil.

[Russian]

Originally posted by DieAz
the 1st time I shot a 7.62 X 39, I was way confused. heard a lil pop, felt nothing. so I walked to target to see if there was a hole in it, there was dead center.
pulled clip out, pulled bolt back ejected a round, locked bolt open. I just had to look down barrel to make sure the bullet didn't get stuck in it.
it was clear so put clip back in, drop the bolt, aimed pulled trigger again. then again lil pop nothing else. had to check target, and barrel again.

there is no recoil at all.  my 9mm compressed air rifle has more kick than the 7.62 X 39 does.

thought about turning the 7.62 X 39 into a long barreled pistol.
even firing it with one hand holding it out like a pistol, theres no recoil.

I agree, recoil is about sligtly more then M16. Now M91/30....that's another story. Ouch ouch ouch....