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Posted: 8/4/2005 3:09:43 PM EDT
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I love shooting my NornicoSKS, which i have had for a month or 2 now. i have put a couple hundred rounds through it and it has functioned perfectly with all of them. i want to keep it that way. I have noticed that after putting 40 rounds or so through it in 15 or 20 min, the barrel gets fairly warm. This is my first rifle beyond a .22 and needless to say, things work a bit differently. How hot should the barrel get? what is the point when heat starts to damage it? i'm nervous to put a lot of ammo through it in one sitting like i can my little plinking rifles. Any thoughts or experiances? |
I'm not sure how long it takes to damage the barrel, but I do know you aren't ANYWHERE close. 40 rounds in 15 -20 minutes is not a stress on that barrel. I've put a whole lot more than than through my rifle in a lot less time. As long as the barrel isn't glowing...you should be fine.
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I put 300 rounds through my Yugo as fast as possible one day at the range. A buddy handed me the Stripper Clips to make things go faster, had one in hand by the last round was shot, reload, do it all over again. It didnt hurt the barrel, it shot the same as it always had. |
+1 When handguards start smoking you might want to let it sit for a minute ONLY so you can hold on to it. Mostly they just become too hot for you to hold on to. Besides it's an SKS, they're made for it. Dont worry at all about it. |
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You should stop shooting when rounds start cooking off in the chamber . I've never seen that happen with an SKS because the upper handguard usually catches fire before that ... which I have seen . But in fairness to the question asked . I would suspect that a Yugo SKS would be the first to suffer damage because they don't use a chrome lined bore . |
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I think the limit on many FA guns is 100 round bursts and it is just not possible to achieve that kind of rounds per second cycle rate with an SKS. As people have mentioned, be wary of the handguard catching on fire. In my case, I have a cheapo walmart nylon sling that starts to melt if I shoot to much. Be careful shooting it the first time because if it was packed in cosmoline, some could still be creeping out of the wood and that stuff has a fairly low flashpoint of 351F IIRC. I missed getting some out of where the GL joins the barrel on my Yugo and it almost caught fire. That would not have been dangerous, but could have scuffed the finish. |
| I've dumped 400 rounds in about 3 minutes before (AR15)! You ain't going to hurt this bitch! The test of the US M4 carbine showed that the barrel would burst after about 1400 rounds full auto! IIRC, they said the OUTSIDE of the hand guards was 1200 degrees farenhight! Think about it man! |
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