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To: Jotmo

What the hell was this guy shooting with an SKS? IIRC, thats the kind of rifle the chinese used before they got AKs. I dad has one and they're a cheap semi-auto rifle.


38 posted on 11/21/2004 4:29:12 PM PST by bahblahbah
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To: bahblahbah
dad has one and they're a cheap semi-auto rifle.

How old is it?

I've got one, but it's an older one before they starting stamping them out in mass mass production.

56 posted on 11/21/2004 4:34:42 PM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: bahblahbah

"What the hell was this guy shooting with an SKS? IIRC, thats the kind of rifle the chinese used before they got AKs. I dad has one and they're a cheap semi-auto rifle."

What the hell is your point? Would you feel better if he
was using a Browning Semi-Auto 30-06? Sks are actually
less powerful and shoots the same way! Bang,Bang,Bang,Bang,
Bang...


74 posted on 11/21/2004 4:39:26 PM PST by Lucky Lyn (NMRA Rules!!)
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To: bahblahbah

The SKS is more like a carbine. It is not a long range rifle. It can be good out to a couple of hundred yards. It uses a small cartridge and is good in the forest and in city combat. I know several guys who hunt deer with them. I use mine for target shooting.


150 posted on 11/21/2004 5:39:14 PM PST by ThanhPhero (Ong la nguoi di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: bahblahbah
What the hell was this guy shooting with an SKS? IIRC, thats the kind of rifle the chinese used before they got AKs.

Really? That's interesting. We do have some house burnings and shootings going on in the Twin Cities that are due to communist Hmong.

194 posted on 11/21/2004 6:34:53 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: bahblahbah

The SKS was built by Simonov to act as an intermediate range carbine. It's name means literally Self-loading Simonov Carbine. The AK came a few years later and as a result the new gun was phased out but the ammo was kept.


213 posted on 11/21/2004 7:05:53 PM PST by Bogey78O (Kerry surrendered Florida faster than he surrendered the Mekong Delta)
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To: bahblahbah

"I dad has one and they're a cheap semi-auto rifle."

It is coyote ugly, 10 rd. fixed magazine, but is also a simplicity itself never fail piece. It started life as a larger (20mm I think) anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapon. Siminove (sp) the inventor, simply scaled it down into a damn fine infantry weapon during WWII. It preceded the AK-47, both utilize the same 7.62x39 round. (123 grain pill at approx. 2300 fps)


222 posted on 11/21/2004 7:24:43 PM PST by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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