huh?

I’m his online chaperone.

Righto.

look here

I used to have one of those, but I sold it to support my ever growing absinthe habit. Now I am left with my ever reliable Ruger P89...though it's just not the same on those long distance targets.

I have one of those, but mine has the blade bayonet with blood grooves.

edit: The 7.62 x 39 is not known for it's accuracy... try the 7.62 x 54 here...

I had a Hellfire trigger attatchment for my SKS. It was a bitch to get it working properly, but once you did it was a beautiful thing. An automatic riffle and a back seat full of watermelons makes for a highly entertaining afternoon.

Watermelons.......


I love Mail Call too.

Thought it was male call.

Thanks Mayor (and everyone else) for the advice. Sorry this post is so out of context now, but I've been busy with this pesky, 8-hour, daily disturbance that some call "work."

Unlike HELLCAT, I can take a beatin' and learn from it.

Good boy. Now change that damn avatar.

Change my AV-tar? Never. I'll suffer the beatings!

And beatings you shall get.

The problem with the 7.62X39 is the chamber the Russians designed. It uses a tapered throat with a 6degree taper from the neck through the lead in the rifling. This along with a long lead in the neck region allows the bullet to upset when it leaves the case neck.

I rebarreled a sweedish mauser and used a special chamber ream from Clymers to make a test rifle for ammo. I got sub 2" 5 shot groups at 100yards without trouble using chinese ammo. Using handloads I was able to get below 1.5" for 5 shot groups.

The advantage of the chamber the Russians designed is primarly that the chamber reams can be reshaprened many more times than the normal step neck /lead/taper ream which is normally used.

Minute of pie-plate accuracy was appearantly acceptable for the millions of cannon fodder who would be issued the SKS and AK.

Personally, I prefer the M14-M1A.

Yeah.

What he said.

Cool, AV.
Welcome back.

Aw, shucks Mayor...thanks for the welcome back.

Man, each time I come back to this thread, I'm greeted by that first pic...y'know, of the bee-YOO-tiful Absinthe spread...and I'm instantly reminded just how shallow my pockets really are.

AND what a douchebag I was for that desperate, impulse Oxygenee purchase. It has this weird, "diet Absinthe" aftertaste...even after the addition of two Domino Dots.

Both the AK and the SKS, as well as the RPK (was it the RPD or the RPK that was in 7.62 x 39? xit, I am off my game) were primarily meant to put the lead downrange. You will hit something eventually. And, they were meant to be used for poorly trained conscripts with little training, so they had to work anytime, anywhere. Led to design compromises.

Yup. The SKS(45) was designed by Sergei Simonov by shrinking the larger anti-tank semiautomatic as a back up to the Kalashnikov design, in the event that it didn't pan out. Supposedly Russia made some million or so SKSs before going into production with the AK-47. Many of the SKSs were never fired, and were put in storage. I had two at one time that were unfired (except proof firing I suspect at the factory).

The AK seems to be slightly more accurate, judging by the ones I've seen at the range.

The SKS is more fun though. I once heard it described as having a Munster trigger. Creepy, but fun.

I still have one SKS that I hope to rebarrel one day. My goal is to make it a test rifle to prove that the chamber is the issue with accuracy. I just haven't figured out how to convert my lathe to cut metric threads for the breach end.

I like guns.

DG

kiss them.

french-like.

whilst squeezing.

Just watch out for those "breech loaders".

I love my SKS as well. Go to a gun show, pick up some, nay, a lot of noncorrosive Czeckerland ammo (Sellior and Bellot, I think) and shoot all morning. More fun than a .22LR.

I just wish there was a better way to mount a scope on the SKS. Almost every mount I have found is a POS.

i support the right to tattoo bear arms.

All this talk of mounting and guns is getting downright suggestive.

Is it making you wet?

i'm parched.

You're always wet though.

but now i'm parched

I think I'd prefer you poached.

DG

How can you be parched? I thought EVERYTHING made you wet.

monkey: eat me

loogie: you leave me dry.

You're fired.

DG

That's better than leaving you on fire.

I know. I don't get it either.

But it made me chuckle, 2 points for you.

DG

Um thanks. How many do I have total now?

1.

and it's on the top of your head.

How'd you know?


Wait, don't answer that. I'll tell you how I got that point on my head. From too many of these....

i see your point