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SKS barrel question??

charlie15
I've seen reference to screw in and pinned barrels, does that mean the pin type is only held in by a pin[?] What type does the yugoslavia m59/66 w/grenade launcher have[?]

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  • gun_runner
    I believe the Yugo has a screwed in barrel.

    Larry
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  • Der Gebirgsjager
    Yes, the Yugo SKS does have a screwed in barrel. A pinned barrel does not have threads, and is held into the receiver by a very tight slip fit of the barrel shank into the receiver. A pin then passes crossways through a hole in the side of the receiver, through a groove that has been cut in the top of the barrel shank, and into a matching hole on the other side of the receiver. This prevents the barrel from pulling out or turning. Most SKS fans believe that the screwed-in barrel offers the best accuracy, and over-all it may; but the best group I ever saw fired with an SKS was with a pinned barrel. The old exception-to-every-rule thing. The only pinned barrel SKS rifles that I am aware of are Chinese. They produced both types.
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  • gunnut505
    Der G; as to the exception thing-I have a Russian SKS w/pinned barrel, oddly contoured bayonet (it goes to cruciform from blade for the 3" at the tip, and fits outside the forearm almost to the mag), braided fiber sling, came with selector but fires just fine without it, and has metal rods inletted in the buttstock (for rigidity, I guess). It had a scope whose name I can't figure out how to type, and the mount was on the receiver's rear sight atop the bolt piston block.
    This rifle was bought in '68 from a Vet po'd about the gun ban and hasn't been fired since. It is pretty much as-issued AFAIK, and according to the guy that had it, he hadn't altered it in any way.

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