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Why do some sks's accept ak mags?? Is this factory or have they been converted?? If so... how do you make this conversion?? Thanks

beantole

Prior to about 1994 or so some Chines SKS's were made to accept AK mags. Most of these were referred to as a "Sporter" model. Around 1994 the importation of these was banned. I purchased one that accepted AK mags a year ago and sold it as I thought the quality of the Chinese SKS was inferior to the Russian SKS. Lots of slam fires and just cheap parts. You can try to convert an SKS to take AK mags but it is very difficult and takes milling equipment. The best mag for an SKS is the original 10 rounder.

Wittum

Is that why they call some of them Milled? Is because they take the ak magazines.

hyperspace

It refers to how the receiver is made, either milled from a solid piece of steel or stamped from several pieces and put together.My understanding is that Russian, Romanian, and Yugo SKS'a are considered to be milled and all Chinese varieties are stamped. I have also been told that ALL sks's are milled and that the stamping vs. milling debate has been used by sellers based on the differences in AK-47 receivers. Perhaps someone here can shed some light on this.

lrarmsx

All SKS's, no matter what country they came from have Milled receivers. The milled or stamped thing on SKS's refers to their trigger guards. All the early SKS's had milled trigger guards, regardless of origin. The late production guns from China had stamped trigger guards. You only see this on the Chinese, almost all of the SKS's from the other countries were made 40-50 years ago. The Chinese ones from 30-40 years ago had milled trigger guards too. The Chinese switched to stamped in the 1980's and 1990's.As for the making an SKS take AK mags, yes it involves a lot of work done by a person who works with metal, grinding, cutting, welding, (a machinist). There was a company back in the early 1990's that would do it for $100, they have long since gone out of business. There were factory made ones both before and after the 1989 Assault Weapons Ban. The ones made before the ban had bayonets and standard type stocks with the trap door butt plate. The ones after the ban had no provision for a bayonet and had either a thumbhole or monte carlo type stock and was called a "Sporter". In either case the gun was made from the ground up to take an AK mag. There was no provision for a stripper clip in the bolt carrier and there was no last shot hold open feature like you find on the standard SKS. I did see some sporters that the Chinese tried to retro-fit a standard SKS with the ability to take an AK mag. Those were the ones that never worked right. There was a different latch assembly to hold the mag in as well. Some of those they tried to use the standard SKS sliding style rather than an AK toggle style, that too was a problem, the mags could vibrate loose and fall out after as little as one or two shoots. My advice is if you want an SKS that takes the AK mag, buy one that was made that way, any attempt to retro-fit an SKS to take AK mags has proven to be a very big risk. If done improperly, not only does the gun not function reliably with an AK mag, it probably can't be returned to its original configuration as a box fed either. Basically you've just destroyed your gun. Don't get me wrong it can be done, but I've seen more failures at this than successes. ( The ones made to take the AK mag from the start ususally work fine)I hope this helps.

Der Gebirgsjager

I have not seen any SKS rifles with stamped receivers. The other parts vary, stamped or milled, with national origin; China using a lot of both. You will find both stamped and milled receivers in the AK-47 family.