[Cold Heat]

Well, It is really a Chinese AK47 knockoff.We have a number of hunters around here that use them.

Frankly, I find them to be lacking the accuracy for a one shot drop.

I have a friend who swears by his, but he had it modified for a scope.

[Bogey78O]

The SKS is not by any means an AK-47 knockoff anymore than the M-14 is a knockoff of the M-16.

The SKS predates the AK-47 firstly. The other thing is the AK-47 fires automatic by design. Every SKS is made to fire only semi-auto. To fire fully automatic the SKS has to be re-engineered. Also the SKS is a tilt bolt design. The AK uses a rotating bolt. They share a gas piston, sight block design, and calibre. The similarities end there.

The chinese ones aren't the most accurate because it uses a pressed barrel but a decent Yugoslavian or Russian is as accurate as any carbine of it's day.

[oldenuff2no]

The 7.62X39 ammo that this rifle shoots is just about the ballistic twin of a 30-30. It leaves the muzzle a little slower, but because of the difference in bullet construction, it pulls even with the 30-30 at a hundred yards.
The liberals will be calling this a high powered assault weapon when in truth it is considered just adequate for deer hunting. In the western US, it doesn't shoot flat enough or hit hard enough to be seriously considered for mule deer or elk. If he had been using one of my hunting rifles, all of these guys would be dead. This is a story about a man that got stupid and didn't want people telling him what he could and couldn't do. The rifle was just the tool he chose to use.