Looking to buy my first rifle for mid-long range, something that has a long and reliable service life. So far the SKS seems to be the right pick.
Has anyone here put a scope on your SKS?
What's your opinion on this mod? Is it difficult/expensive to install? Does it make loading difficult?
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Dude I've bubba'ed my SKS far more than I ever thought I would, tapco stock and all. But I really don't think a scoped set up works that well without a solid ass AK-style side mount or a mount from ScoutScopes on the rear sight, those will both hold zero
Just get a Savage or Ruger Bolt Action and put a scope on that, don´t bubba that SKS.
Is it really a Bubba if it's just a scope?
If it requires you to drill holes were there aren´t supposed to be any, you bubba something.
SKSes are getting rarer and more expensive and you would just lower it´s value.
Just get a decent entry-level bolt-action with a pic-rail or something similar and use a SKS for some iron-sight shooting-practice.
Yes.
Also, why would you put a scope on a 4MOA gun?
Shiet. I was under the impression they were more accurate than that. Shows what I know, time to do some more research
A gun is a tool. Period. You can collect milsurp all ya want but at the end of the day an SKS isn’t really a collectors piece is it? Unless you’re planning on JB welding it a scope mount to the dust cover it isn’t really bubba. If you pay good money (or if you’re skilled in machining) to have the receiver worked on then your fine. If you go the scout mount route your also pretty much okay. You aren’t chopping up a garand or welding shit onto a pristine SMLE. However, it should be noted that for the money you could theoretically drop on “modernizing” a SKS you could drop the same money on a actual modern rifle and do just as well if not better. Modding any rifle should be done properly to avoid creating some failed abortion of a firearm, but at the same time don’t fall for the “rifle is fine shit”.
That's standard for ANY service rifle pretty much.
>an SKS isn’t really a collectors piece is it?
No, it definitely is.
Probably should've mentioned I'd be planning on doing this to a yugo or Chinese model
It's your rifle and your money chief, but you're destroying history and wasting money for no real reasom. If you want a "reliable mid-long range rifle" get an AR and save yourself the headache.
I knew a guy who disfigured a nazi-marked, all-matching K98k by having a gunsmith add a shitty pic-rail on top of it, welded and glued. Looked like absolute shit and rendered the irons useless unless you dialed them to 600 meters. He put an airsoft-tier optic on it , used mixed ammo and couldn´t figure out why his groups were all over the paper @ 100 meters. He then bought a shitty Hawke 3-12 power and put it on there with rings that were way too high. He had to sell the gun later and the guy who bought it was even worse: He put the thing in one of these Archangel-stocks...at least he safely stored the OG parts.
>Theyre only going up in price and you will permanently devalue it.
>They're shit accuracy compared to any modern entry rifle.
>The caliber is below 30-30 in energy and momentum with crap factory bullet options.
>You don't need an optic to hunt inside of 150 yards and they're not really accurate enough to make ethical shots past that anyways.
>Most mounts ive seen on them wont hold zero and the rifles action might mess up your optic.
>A savage or ruger can be had for less than $400 in something more powerful like 243, 308, 270, and more with more available purpose built hunting bullets
Just don't user.
You're joking, right?
It's a $300 piece of shit workhorse.
Ok buddy. Let me hear you say that in 3 years when a Yugo is going for $700 minimum.
and a round that briddy much falls out of the sky at 300 yards
better off with a ladder sight desu
2001: "It's a $90 piece of shit workhorse!"
2006: "It's a $150 piece of shit workhorse!"
2010: "It's a $200 piece of shit workhorse!"
2014: "It's a $300 piece of shit workhorse!"
2016: "It's a $400 piece of shit workhorse!"
2018: "It's a $450 piece of shit workhorse!"
2025: ???
Why the fuck don't people just buy rifles set up to do such things in the first place? I get it back 50 years ago when milsurp was like $30 for the rifle but these days that is just facemeltingly retarded.
Wouldn't do it to my rifle but if done tastefully, it can not look completely bubba
Go with a POSP 4x combloc with side mount
You dont have to drill and tap an SKS to mount a scope. Get a pic rail dust cover and mount it on that. For fucks sake, keep the rifle reconfigurable to its original state.
If that differed from the price increases of every other firearm, you may have some ground to stand on.
>linking images on an imageboard
Nyet dont do the dust cover get a pic rail gas tube it's more stable
ARs literally have the opposite price curve. Most other stuff has had flat price curves, adjusted for inflation.
Are they going through the same shit the Mosins did, then? Cheap as dirt and then tripling in price? I've not heard about their supply drying up.
Shim your stock and don’t shoot crap ammo and it will likely shoot better than that.
It WILL shoot better than that if you also do a trigger job and use a scope.
They suck man. For mid-long, I would suggest a Ruger scout. The SKS meme died when the guns got over 300 bucks.
Never scope an SKS unless it has a side mount and you have a POSP for max aesthetic.
They're 2 MOA capable if they're on a lead sled.
>mid range
Accurate enough for combat
>long range
You’ve been playing too much PUBG
I find it laughable that game and Battlefield 3 classified a Tapco’d SKS as a DMR
It's not the scope itself, it's what you have to do to the rifle to get the scope on
They're about that accurate with good ammo. Thing is everyone uses slavshit and expects better than 3-4MOA which isn't going to (or meant to) happen.
I have a scope that came with mine that I don't use. It's attached to a dust cover and has screws that clamp it down. I'll give it to you for garage sale price if you're interested.