Weekend Photo: A good low budget rifle
Glenn writes …
For any guys who see and read this if you are low budget like me, disabled and living on severely fixed income an SKS is a great cheap gun with tons of accessories on the market.
This is my factory 26 Chinese SKS with ATI folding stock in destroyer grey, with bi-pod foregrip, Cree 2000 lumin flashlight, 40 rnd mag, red laser sight, red dot and single point sling.
It shoots great, 1.25″ groups at 70 yards and that was a 4 shot group with first round flyer (see picture).
Thanks Glenn. The SKS is indeed a good choice for a low budget rifle, unfortunately it is not nearly as inexpensive as it once was.
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To quote a classic:
"THIS THING MAKES IVAN CHESNOKOV SICK IN STOMACH!"
The only decent analogue to an AK-47 is its superior, the FN FNC- the accurized European AK, Considering the FN's are not cheap then the analogue falls to the Pindad SS-2- a fully licensed production of the FN FNC. FNC is a long-stroke piston barrel-gas driving rotary bolt. Effective range 500m. STANAG 5.56 ammo & magazines.
Cost approx $500USD (quoting wikipedia)- no idea how much in the US. SS-1 & 2 battle-proven in Vietnam-like jungle and arid area (Western Indonesia is identical in climate, flora and most fauna to Australian Northern Territory) since 1980's.