Antique SKS rifle used by Dallas Killer (No Ar-15 used)

https://thearmsguide.com/8805/sks-used-dallas-killer/ ^ | Published on July 9th, 2016 | by Mark Miller

[Roman_War_Criminal]

That is a Saiga 5.45x39-mostly unconverted. He’s using Tapco (crapco) magazines.
The stock is a Zhukov Stock made by Magpul.
I can’t tell the scope though. Primary Arms maybe.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Correct. One is an AR-15 the other is a semi-converted Saiga 5.45x39

[gundog]

Soviet issue in the original box and wrappings,with the spike bayonet.

Spike bayonet is Chinese. Unless it was an older SKS variant that the Albanians use., It has a cruciform spike, as opposed to the 3 fuller Chinese spike.

[gundog]

More prescience from Matt Bracken.

[gundog]

The SKS and AK-47 use completely different magazines.

There is a relatively rare SKS variant that uses AK mags.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Are there? News to me.

[gundog]

In my experience, .30 cal bullet holes in sheet metal are surrounded by a dent. Those look like .22 cal to me.

[gundog]

You do realize there was never a paratrooper model of the sks right?

That was a marketing ploy by an importer, I believe. The earlier versions were called "Cowboy's Companions." "Paratrooper" was less gay, I guess.

[gundog]

Local radio guy did an ad for a gun shop. Called the Garand an M-I Grand. That’s M as in Mary, I as in Idiot, Grand.

[gundog]

Note the rifle looks like the one Micah X carried in the Houston Black Panther's "oink oink kill pigs" rally, except the handle and sights were changed to add a scope.

No. The former is clearly an AR variant, the latter an AK variant.

[ought-six]

“No, morality is not relative. Morality is written on the human heart. We all know that some things are right and others are not.”

Sure sounds like “relative” to me, because what you “know” as right may not be the same as someone else “knows” as right. The history of man is full of such dichotomies.

[archy]

It chafes me, too. When I hear the word ‘sniper’, I’m thinking of something that the media can’t imagine, it’s utterly outside their world.

That may change one of these days. One of these days right soon....

You know who Hans Kalm was?

[archy]

Right....I tried one brand, big no bueno. Attempted another, same result. Took a while to find something that would fit the Russian SKS. All accounts I read, these conversions caused the rifle to jam by misfeeds.

Avoid the 30-round magazines, the spring of which places too much tension against the bottom of the bolt during its travel for the first ten rounds or so. The main reason for going to a detatchable AK-type magazine on a SKS is if you're going to mount a scope on the rifle, which prevents loading it from the top the way it should be done.

For the same reason, also avoid the 30-round fixed-in-place accessory magazines for the SKS. The shorter 20-round versions may give acceptable results, but the extension protruding from the bottom of the rifle prevents the good use of the rifle from the prone position, and turns it into a from-the-hip or off-the-shoulder bullet hose instead of the handy carbine that it is- in its issue form. Most SKS carbines I've shot will outshoot most Ruger Mini-14 rifles I've tried head-to-head comparisons with, given quality ammo. Most of what's available for the SKS is not, though it's reliable enough and okay for a 16-inch barrelled AK.