Great story and welcome home. Only one quibble: the built-in mag on an SKS carries 10 rounds. Still have one ex-VC SKS. There was a select-fire Chinese version of the SKS that had a detachable 30 round magazine - saw one in a gun shop in Norfolk once - the owner didn’t know it was a machine gun!
I shot a guy in the hand once and patched him up - and he helped carry me to my medevac bird about an hour later.
Chainmail,
It might have been a 10 round mag. I only had possession of it for about 2 hours while we walked out of the bush. That was 50 years ago, my memory’s not was it once was. What I was most amazed at was that the magazine was not detachable and had to be reloaded while attached to the gun.