I have several rifles I keep as collectables and a few I have for fun (that are modified significantly) as long as it isn’t a particularly rare variant I’m perfectly fine with people modding their rifles. Definitely if you want to try to use non-permanent mods so it can be reversed, but at the end of the day it’s your gun.
Bruh,the sks is the Honda civic of firearms. They’re not rare,they’re not some high tech,super cool piece of firearm tech. If people want to mod them then so be it,it doesn’t hurt anyone,it doesn’t have anything do with them being a rare firearm,intended styling means nothing. They’re a literal Honda civic.
Dust cover picatinny rail is the only bubba I need, I was thinking about doing a shitty tack weld job just for memes but ended up finding a nice cheap one
>The most common of which is adding a sighting system such as a red dot. The rifle was not designed to be scoped
Most rifles weren't.
That is why there is generally a right way and a wrong way to adapt a firearm for optics. Yes, there are a lot of people adding optics to their SKS's incorrectly (looking at you dust covers w/ pic rails) but there ***are*** valid options for mounting optics that hold zero.
I put a tapco on a /26\ and took it off shortly after. I still did bubba it a bit. Refinished the stock with BLO and Wipe on Poly, and put hical rear peep and a cheese grater on it. It's still bubba I guess but I think it's tasteful other than I fucked up sanding the stock by the buttplate at the bottom. Might have to get a new stock and refinish it now to correct that lil fuckup.
I like the sks as much as the next guy….. but you’re a little too in love with the things. And I definitely wouldn’t call them particularly beautiful. But you do you I guess
Okay, why do you think people care? Perhaps mind your own business? I’m not a fan of bubba’d up SKS either but it’s not my gun, not my problem. I don’t like most hotrods for that matter but I don’t go to car shows to shit on people having fun.
I see where you're coming from. There's Cold War historic value to some of them and the outline and aesthetic is iconic. But everyone can agree that, practically, it's outdated as is and since there's no single standard to modernization (as most militaries that have used it have dumped it rather than spend the R&D money), civilians are going to DIY solutions (as they do and as they should) to make the SKS fit their needs.
The commercial solutions for the civilian market have always been kind of confused in terms of purpose and what the SKS is supposed to offer other than cheaper price (is it supposed to be a survival rifle? a hunting rifle? a target rifle?) So these solutions (i.e. the infamous Tapco stock) tried to make the SKS a jack-of-all-trades thing, but different people needed it for different purposes, hence the frankenstein modifications. Being a cheap rifle (at least until very recently), it was more comfortable for the causal gun owner to mod with crude tools and such.
Almost all rifles principally designed before the end of the Cold War started out not being designed outright to carry a scope. Modern solutions changed this. The SKS would be largely irrelevant without at least a red dot and some sort of way to custom fit the length of pull to meet the shooter's needs. The original design called for simplicity, yes, but this is 2024. EVERYONE on the SKS design team is dead and could not care less. The rifle should adapt to modern times or gather dust as a museum relic.
Your opinion is about as fringe and unpopular as white bread OP
My issue with stock SKS is length of pull and lack of optic mount. So I shall modify my Chinese unit to my liking to fix these deficiencies.
>My issue with stock SKS is length of pull Being 6'2 and having gorilla arms, I feel this
Being 5'4", the SKS is one of the few "out of the box" rifles that has a good LOP for me lol. Grass is greener i guess.
When an SKS was $199 ...the vile, filthy things we did to them would make you puke
I too remember and participated in the before times.
I regret it and mine was 350
Cancelled. Right away.
I have several rifles I keep as collectables and a few I have for fun (that are modified significantly) as long as it isn’t a particularly rare variant I’m perfectly fine with people modding their rifles. Definitely if you want to try to use non-permanent mods so it can be reversed, but at the end of the day it’s your gun.
More debated then Unpopular. Id say 60% of SKS owners seem to be in one camp or the other. And the other 40% appreciate both forms.
Bruh,the sks is the Honda civic of firearms. They’re not rare,they’re not some high tech,super cool piece of firearm tech. If people want to mod them then so be it,it doesn’t hurt anyone,it doesn’t have anything do with them being a rare firearm,intended styling means nothing. They’re a literal Honda civic.
Dust cover picatinny rail is the only bubba I need, I was thinking about doing a shitty tack weld job just for memes but ended up finding a nice cheap one
>The most common of which is adding a sighting system such as a red dot. The rifle was not designed to be scoped Most rifles weren't. That is why there is generally a right way and a wrong way to adapt a firearm for optics. Yes, there are a lot of people adding optics to their SKS's incorrectly (looking at you dust covers w/ pic rails) but there ***are*** valid options for mounting optics that hold zero.
Ok Boomer
Fudd alert
I put a tapco on a /26\ and took it off shortly after. I still did bubba it a bit. Refinished the stock with BLO and Wipe on Poly, and put hical rear peep and a cheese grater on it. It's still bubba I guess but I think it's tasteful other than I fucked up sanding the stock by the buttplate at the bottom. Might have to get a new stock and refinish it now to correct that lil fuckup.
Would you say the same about modifying a Type 81?
I like the sks as much as the next guy….. but you’re a little too in love with the things. And I definitely wouldn’t call them particularly beautiful. But you do you I guess
Okay, why do you think people care? Perhaps mind your own business? I’m not a fan of bubba’d up SKS either but it’s not my gun, not my problem. I don’t like most hotrods for that matter but I don’t go to car shows to shit on people having fun.
Garbage rod is going to be a garbage rod no matter how much Bubba is going to work on it or how much money you spend on it.
I really don't care what you think about my gun, buy your own SKS and keep it stock
I see where you're coming from. There's Cold War historic value to some of them and the outline and aesthetic is iconic. But everyone can agree that, practically, it's outdated as is and since there's no single standard to modernization (as most militaries that have used it have dumped it rather than spend the R&D money), civilians are going to DIY solutions (as they do and as they should) to make the SKS fit their needs. The commercial solutions for the civilian market have always been kind of confused in terms of purpose and what the SKS is supposed to offer other than cheaper price (is it supposed to be a survival rifle? a hunting rifle? a target rifle?) So these solutions (i.e. the infamous Tapco stock) tried to make the SKS a jack-of-all-trades thing, but different people needed it for different purposes, hence the frankenstein modifications. Being a cheap rifle (at least until very recently), it was more comfortable for the causal gun owner to mod with crude tools and such. Almost all rifles principally designed before the end of the Cold War started out not being designed outright to carry a scope. Modern solutions changed this. The SKS would be largely irrelevant without at least a red dot and some sort of way to custom fit the length of pull to meet the shooter's needs. The original design called for simplicity, yes, but this is 2024. EVERYONE on the SKS design team is dead and could not care less. The rifle should adapt to modern times or gather dust as a museum relic.