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With all of the SKS's so cheap, I was thinking about converting one to a brush deer rifle. What would be a good cartrige? anyone have any ideas? Maybe take a 35rem and shorten it(wildcat). Mike "An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man is a slave", Ceasar | ||
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The 7.62 x 39 is plenty fine as a close range deer cartridge, similar to a 30-30. With the accuracy of most SKS's you are going to be limited in range anyway. Handload with a decent expanding bullet and you're home free. I've got a Yugo 59/66 version that I mounted a red dot on and it's accurate enough out to 100 yards for hunting. Browningguy Houston, TX We Band of 45-70ers | |||
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Bguy's right but if you just want the project, the 7.62 x 39 has been necked up to 35 cal with no other change. It is a near balistic twin of the 35 Rem because it runs a little higher in pressure. You get that wonderful ability to shoot pistol bullets, too. You have to either relace the barrel or rebore an existing one. I guess you'd have to find a reborer and ask if reaming out a chromed bore is a problem. Prolly not. If it were me I'd use a threaded action, not pinned like the cheaper Chinese. There was a gunshop specializing in this conversion years ago and I saw a write-up in a gun mag about it by Ross Seyfreid. "Experience" is the only class you take where the exam comes before the lesson. | |||
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MikeN.. Turning a milsurp into something else usually takes the "cheap" out of the equation. | |||
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Yea! it ends up being not so cheap, but real neat! Mike "An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man is a slave", Ceasar | |||
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A few years back I read a article in one of the domestic gunrags about a 35x39mm wildcat that produced 35 Remington ballistics. These folks might be able to tell you more http://www.homestead.com/accuracyriflesystems3/calibers.html More recently the Russians have created a 9x39mm round for their special operators. See http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/special_purpose_small_arms_ammun.htm for more details | |||
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The Yugo SKS has a milled reciever and a non-chrome lined barrel. Mine is fairly accurate. I had a trigger job done and converted the firing pin to a sping-loaded pin to help with slam fires. The Yugo is probably a better platform for a money pit than a Russian or Chinese SKS. ZM | |||
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Mike... Yep, they can be neat. Have fun. | |||
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6mm PPC | |||
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Having seen more then one deer killed in the brush with a SKS I would leave it in 7.62x39 and go hunting. It well save you lots of money and kill lots of deer. | |||
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the russians, spatnaz, has a 9x39, though it was a .366 bullet.. an entry weapon, so to speak. SOF did an article in the early 80s on it i had thought about doing one in ppc.. even if 7.62 ppc.. then got bored with the sks, and just shoot mine once in a while.. i put a sidemount scope, trigger job, and a stock extention.. it's a 1.5 to 2" gun.. at 100, so it's minute o'deer to 200 with the new 150gr wolfs (haven't tried them) it's supposed to basically be between the 300 sav and 30/30 jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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One more vote to leave it as is. We've used bone-stock SKS's for deer in the brush for years. You could put it in a light synthetic stock and put a red dot on it, but I wouldn't bother with changing the caliber. Among other things, that would eliminate the use of all that cheap milsurp ammo for practice. ============================== "I'd love to be the one to disappoint you when I don't fall down" --Fred Durst | |||
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