r/canadaguns • u/InfoPaste • May 15 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Cool SKS Build on GunEx

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u/swift_gilford May 15 '26

I really am surprised this style of chassis isn't already a commercially available thing.

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u/NEUMANN-METALWORKS Neumann Metalworks May 15 '26

I'm working on something similar. It's got its own unique style, but similar to an AK

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u/swift_gilford May 15 '26

potential to use Zhukov furniture??

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u/NEUMANN-METALWORKS Neumann Metalworks May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Hmm well, it can use any AK style pistol grip. Rear has a pic rail to use picatinny style stocks (or pic to buffer-tube adapters). I THINK I've seen pic to ak-style folding adapters but I'm not 100% sure where to find one. Lower handguard is a custom piece, it's attached semi-permanently to the main steel body, but it kind of looks like a Zhukov handguard anyways

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u/Murray3-Dvideos May 15 '26

Wasnt much market interest until the Type 81s got banned. Pre 2024 this sort of stuff was mostly laughed at and shunned.

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u/SpectreBallistics Spectre Ballistics International (Verified) May 15 '26

The market for SKS chassis is a lot smaller than most people realize. A chassis like this would require stamping, and that is expensive to get going and requires a lot of volume to justify.

Canada is unique right now in that we can have the SKS and almost nothing else. Most other places you'd just go buy an AK or similar gun before dumping money into modding an SKS into one.

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u/swift_gilford May 15 '26

I get that, but i feel like a lot of the stocks & chassis on the market all have unique geometry when the simplest design is more or less staring us in the face.

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u/milanskiv May 16 '26

I really don’t understand the conversions from 5 round OEM mags you can load quickly with a stripper clip to … 5 round duckbill mag which is pain to insert correctly o. First try and impossible to carry in magazine pouches …. Like why?