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Posted: 11/2/2022 3:32:32 PM EDT
| Not the duckbill mags, but the Chinese SKSs that came in natively taking AK mags. Can you charge those mags from stripper clips w/ the mag on the rifle? |
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Originally Posted By Inimicalone: My sporter isn't milled with a guide like a normal sks, I'm not sure about the others. Originally Posted By Inimicalone: My sporter isn't milled with a guide like a normal sks, I'm not sure about the others. Interesting. Wonder if it would accept a standard SKS bolt? I'm guessing the AK mag won't force the bolt to lock open when empty. Originally Posted By Inimicalone: I did read that spetnaz would load ak mags from strippers without a guide, so it might be possible. I'll give it a shot this weekend. Watch yer fingers! |
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Originally Posted By backbencher: Not the duckbill mags, but the Chinese SKSs that came in natively taking AK mags. Can you charge those mags from stripper clips w/ the mag on the rifle? It's been a LONG LONG Time. If I remember right, it depended on how it was converted. Some of them had a special hold open button that held the bolt back even if the magazine was out of the rifle. Other (pretty sure they were importers conversions) the follower of the AK mag held the bolt back when empty. Sorry I couldn't be more specific but it's been a LONG time since I saw a SKS "D" model... Bigger_Hammer  |
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| My Sporter will work with stripper clips but the carrier wasn't Milled with a cutout, I ended up buying an Albanian bolt carrier with the AK style hook charging handle that had the slot milled and no serial number to replace the factory and it works great. I kept the original carrier, and it will go back in the gun if I ever part with it but I probably won't ever get rid of it, you have to hold the bolt back and charge at the same time but it does work. |
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Originally Posted By HipSh0T: My Sporter will work with stripper clips but the carrier wasn't Milled with a cutout, I ended up buying an Albanian bolt carrier with the AK style hook charging handle that had the slot milled and no serial number to replace the factory and it works great. I kept the original carrier, and it will go back in the gun if I ever part with it but I probably won't ever get rid of it, you have to hold the bolt back and charge at the same time but it does work. Cheers! Pics? |
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Originally Posted By backbencher: Cheers! Pics? Originally Posted By backbencher: Originally Posted By HipSh0T: My Sporter will work with stripper clips but the carrier wasn't Milled with a cutout, I ended up buying an Albanian bolt carrier with the AK style hook charging handle that had the slot milled and no serial number to replace the factory and it works great. I kept the original carrier, and it will go back in the gun if I ever part with it but I probably won't ever get rid of it, you have to hold the bolt back and charge at the same time but it does work. Cheers! Pics? I can take some when I get home |
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Originally Posted By HipSh0T: My Sporter will work with stripper clips but the carrier wasn't Milled with a cutout, I ended up buying an Albanian bolt carrier with the AK style hook charging handle that had the slot milled and no serial number to replace the factory and it works great. I kept the original carrier, and it will go back in the gun if I ever part with it but I probably won't ever get rid of it, you have to hold the bolt back and charge at the same time but it does work. I also bought one of the non numbered Albanian bolt carriers when they were available like ten years ago. I think I gave $20 for it new in the paper wrapper. |
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Originally Posted By kcray: I also bought one of the non numbered Albanian bolt carriers when they were available like ten years ago. I think I gave $20 for it new in the paper wrapper. Originally Posted By kcray: Originally Posted By HipSh0T: My Sporter will work with stripper clips but the carrier wasn't Milled with a cutout, I ended up buying an Albanian bolt carrier with the AK style hook charging handle that had the slot milled and no serial number to replace the factory and it works great. I kept the original carrier, and it will go back in the gun if I ever part with it but I probably won't ever get rid of it, you have to hold the bolt back and charge at the same time but it does work. I also bought one of the non numbered Albanian bolt carriers when they were available like ten years ago. I think I gave $20 for it new in the paper wrapper. I got mine from Aim Surplus for $29.99 brand new in the paper wrapper somewhere around 2007- 2008, that's probably where you got yours from. |
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Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: It's been a LONG LONG Time. If I remember right, it depended on how it was converted. Some of them had a special hold open button that held the bolt back even if the magazine was out of the rifle. Other (pretty sure they were importers conversions) the follower of the AK mag held the bolt back when empty. Sorry I couldn't be more specific but it's been a LONG time since I saw a SKS "D" model... Bigger_Hammer those are extremely rare , ive never seen one other than pictures |
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I know this is an OLD OLD post, but everything in the SKS forum is old. I just got the SKS bug again, and I have been reading old stuff... The Navy Arms version of the Paratrooper SKS that I own has a manual BHO feature and the BC is milled for stripper clip use. It also was imported with the pre ban features. I feel like the reason the BC is milled is due to the fact that the original rifle used was a complete Paratrooper model that was converted, but I don't know this for fact. The only way the bolt locks back on empty is if the magazine is modified to do so, I believe its the Anyway, stripper clips with a detachable magazine loaded while the magazine is inserted in the rifle seem like an overly complicated method, and defeat the purpose of a detachable magazine... Loading an empty magazine with three 10 round stripper clips has its advantage |
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Originally Posted By DoorKicker: I know this is an OLD OLD post, but everything in the SKS forum is old. I just got the SKS bug again, and I have been reading old stuff... The Navy Arms version of the Paratrooper SKS that I own has a manual BHO feature and the BC is milled for stripper clip use. It also was imported with the pre ban features. I feel like the reason the BC is milled is due to the fact that the original rifle used was a complete Paratrooper model that was converted, but I don't know this for fact. The only way the bolt locks back on empty is if the magazine is modified to do so, I believe its the Polish magazine followers that do that???? Anyway, stripper clips with a detachable magazine loaded while the magazine is inserted in the rifle seem like an overly complicated method, and defeat the purpose of a detachable magazine... Loading an empty magazine with three 10 round stripper clips has its advantage Yugo AK mags have a BHO on the magazine follower. |
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