Straight Pull Bolt Action SKS?

rballi

A local gun shop is getting a shipment of Yugo SKS. They are going to have the flip up night sights and a grenade launcher. I was told they have a gas cuttoff to operate the launcher.

My question(s) is/are, if you cuttoff the gas, does the rifle become a bolt action gun? Does the bolt (action) lock or is it blowback operated? I know it is designed to be a semi auto gun, but is there any harm in extended use as a bolt action? Will the gun be more accurate in bolt action mode?

Roy

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just-shoot

Inside the magazine is the plate that the last round lays on top of above the spring. This plate has a little portion that stick up and catches the bolt after the last round. It's the peice you have to push on to close the action, on a empty magazine. If you manually pull the bolt back, I believe it would eject the shot round and pick up the next round from the magazine. I dodn't see how it could possibly improve the accruacy. Your just manually doing what the rifle was designed to do automatically. Whether you do it, or the gas piston does it, the bolt still is going back and forth. I could be wrong though.

v35

Try it and let us know if accuracy improves with the gas cutoff selector on cutoff. I would assume a small velocity increase because the gas bleed off, normally used to cycle the action will be conserved. It would be interesting to chronograph the velocity difference.
There's no reason to expect you'd be doing harm to the SKS.

rballi

The rifles came in yesterday afternoon. I went to take a quick look at them right before they closed. They are really full of grease and came in bulk with no boxes. They have a thin rubber butt pad and some come with leather slings, most have matching numbers. Some have nicer wood than others with some being darker and some lighter, some have a grain to them and the others look like tiger oak. I'll try and hand pick one out of the fifty they received. They are asking $147.50 for them, does that sound reasonable?

Does anyone have a Yugo? How does it shoot? How does it compare to the Chinese or Russian?

Roy

rballi

Got one, cleaned it up (had some copper fouling) shot it, I'm pleased. The kick feels a little different with the gas off; accuracy about the same. I only had an opportunity to fire it at about 50 yards. I'll bag it and see what it does at 100.