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SKS Stock??

Smoky14
Just aquired a Chinese SKS with a really bad stock and need your advice on a replacement.
Which one, what's available, what do you recommend etc. This is my first SKS and any advice is welcome.

Thanks Smoky
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  • Henry0Reilly
    Plenty of factory stocks available at reasonable prices due to many folks changing to synthetic. I have a synthetic monte carlo style stock on mine which I like pretty well.


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    quote:Originally posted by Smoky14
    What brand do you have, and how well did it fit?

    Smoky


    It's marked Combat Exchange, Leo W. Livingston and has a sticker that says, Made by the hands of an American.

    It dropped right in with no problem.
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  • Smoky14
    What brand do you have, and how well did it fit?

    Smoky
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  • armilite
    Should be plenty of wood stocks around but the prices are creeping up on these as well. I prefer the fiberglass commie stocks manufactured back in the 60's. They are still around, you just may have to look a bit more. I'll post a photo of them when I can get on my other computer.
    The top two have the stock I mentioned. One has had a pistol grip added but only fits the milled trigger group the other has just the standard fiberglass stock.

    [img][/img]MVC-COMMIE.jpg
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  • gary wray
    Smoky14....just all depends on what you want. Me, personally, I would go back to the original Chinese wood and put that on it. As mentioned, since many folks have changed over to syn there are plenty of wood stocks available both online and at gun shows. Finding a ChiCom "red" fiberglass stock from VN times is a bit hard (and expensive) but they are nice and spif up the SKS. I have several syn stocks for my SKS's but still prefer the wood....lots of aftermarket syn to choose from. Good luck[:)]
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  • armilite
    quote:Originally posted by gary wray
    Smoky14....just all depends on what you want. Me, personally, I would go back to the original Chinese wood and put that on it. As mentioned, since many folks have changed over to syn there are plenty of wood stocks available both online and at gun shows. Finding a ChiCom "red" fiberglass stock from VN times is a bit hard (and expensive) but they are nice and spif up the SKS. I have several syn stocks for my SKS's but still prefer the wood....lots of aftermarket syn to choose from. Good luck[:)]



    Like the two I have pictured. [;)]
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  • Smoky14
    I just heard about this 922r code requiring me to change half the parts on the gun just because I want a different stock. What is with that and how can you tell if the affects your gun???

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  • llama
    quote:Originally posted by Smoky14
    I just heard about this 922r code requiring me to change half the parts on the gun just because I want a different stock. What is with that and how can you tell if the affects your gun???

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    As long as you have a fixed mag SKS (there are a few variations that have removable mags as well as the aftermarket stuff) I don't think 922r applies.
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  • beantownshootah
    922R is a huge can of worms, and there is quite a bit of debate about whether or not it applies to SKS rifles, which of the SKS rifles (some are C&R; they were imported at different times, etc), and in what ways.

    Edit: Responding to above; There are all sorts of Federal gun laws. 922a applies to any semiautomatic rifle assembled from foreign made parts that could not otherwise be legally imported into the USA. It should, therefore, apply to Chinese-made SKS Rifles. Its the 1994 semi-auto ban (which has expired on a FEDERAL level) that only applies to detachable magazine semi-auto rifles.

    I can say the following for sure:

    a. If you were to replace your bad Chinese wood stock with a similar one (and they're not terribly hard to find, lots of people swap them out for aftermarket ones) you probably aren't breaking any rules, and even if you were, nobody would ever know the difference (see below).

    b. 922A is a law against ASSEMBLING guns from foreign made parts, not POSSESSING them. So its not against the law to OWN an SKS that "someone else" dropped an American made stock into.

    c. In practice, there are a gazillion otherwise stock SKS rifles out there with aftermarket stocks. Even though this may be a violation of 922a, the reality is that this is not something that tends to get the BATFE or other law enforcement bent out of shape (see e).

    d. FWIW, personally I like the Butler Creek Monte Carlo type fixed stock, which is probably the same one that Henry mentioned above.

    Its just black synthetic, and not super nice-looking, but its durable, more comfortable than the original stock, and not too expensive (somewhere around $50). Unlike some of the "tactical" stocks, it also makes the gun look like a conventional hunting rifle, which as far as I am concerned is a big plus. Unlike the mall ninja crowd, I do NOT want my SKS to look like an AR-15 or Kalashnikov, and in fact, I WANT it to look LESS conspicuous.

    e. So far as I know nobody has EVER actually been convicted of a 922A violation. In fact the law itself may not even be constitutional; it sure as hell isn't comprehensible.

    f. My understanding is that the BATFE's policy when it comes across a non-compliant weapon is just to confiscate it. That might be illegal, but since nobody wants to go to court over a $300 rifle, let alone fight Federal weapons charges, they can get away with this.

    Hope that helped a bit.
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