My SKS is fine. And it’s real wood so it doesn’t look so “scary”. :)
My own family members have killed grizzly bear and moose with 308s, where you hit them. One of the Indians down ft Yukon killed a sow polar bear with a 556 bout 15 years back.
Put a MS2 sling on them and everybody hunts off snowmachine; subsistence of course.
Russian SKS is a sharp lookin rifle.